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OLD ATI cards
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:22 pm
by Nathan_P
Just a thought. Given that support for all AMD 3xxx and 4xxx gpu's has been withdrawn, should they not now go on the blacklist, someone has just restarted folding using his 4870's but cannot get work - the latest version of the clients still list them as supported.
Re: OLD ATI cards
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:14 pm
by Zagen30
I believe they are on the blacklist. GPUs.txt is both the whitelist and blacklist, but it's not very apparent. To take an example, here's the 4870 listing:
0x1002:0x9440:::RV770 [Radeon HD 4870]
A whitelisted AMD GPU would have a 1 after the second colon and some number, which I presume indicates OpenCL capability or something along those lines, after the third colon:
0x1002:0x671f:1:4:CAYMAN [Radeon HD 6900 Series]
If it's missing those numbers, it's blacklisted.
If you look through the list, there are a ton of cards that never ran FAH, and they all are blacklisted the same way.
Re: OLD ATI cards
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:00 pm
by Joe_H
Even the 7.2.9 version running on my iMac that has a 4850 GPU shows the card as unsupported in the log. Not that the message is needed as GPU folding on any card is unsupported under OS X. The card used to show as supported, so one of the updates to the GPUs.txt file made the change. If the card is showing as supported for your friend, updating the GPUs.txt file should fix that.
Re: OLD ATI cards
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:43 pm
by Nathan_P
OK, he didn't specify which version of the client he is using beyond v7. I'll get him to download v7.3 and see how he gets on
Re: OLD ATI cards
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:47 pm
by Joe_H
V7.2.9 added automatic updating of the GPUs.txt file, done once a month as I recall. Earlier versions of the client needed to be updated manually.
Re: OLD ATI cards
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:31 pm
by 7im
The system section tab, and the system section in the log file will show the card as
unsupported. For example...
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09:22:06:******************************* System ********************************
09:22:06: CPU: AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor
09:22:06: CPU ID: AuthenticAMD Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0
09:22:06: CPUs: 8
09:22:06: Memory: 7.92GiB
09:22:06: Free Memory: 6.49GiB
09:22:06: Threads: WINDOWS_THREADS
09:22:06: On Battery: false
09:22:06: UTC offset: -5
09:22:06: PID: 3284
09:22:06: CWD: D:/Users/Agent Smith/AppData/Roaming/FAHClient
09:22:06: OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
09:22:06: OS Arch: AMD64
09:22:06: GPUs: 1
09:22:06: GPU 0: UNSUPPORTED: Radeon HD 4770 [RV740]
09:22:06: CUDA: Not detected
09:22:06:Win32 Service: false