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Hello, I am a bit new to folding at home.

I have previously made a post but i have not yet received a response.

I have a laptop asus TUF fx505DY

The laptop has a ryzen 3550H processor with vega 8 graphics

and a radeon 560X dedicated GPU

When i run the folding@home client, it only detects the integrated graphics.

Is there a way to make the client use the dedicated graphics, as i believe it would help speed up compute time.

Thank you to any who responds to my query!

Happy folding!

Hi there, it can but in my experience, you will need to disable the integrated graphics/switch off auto changing in bios

What are the steps to do so?

It is also peculiar, as CPU usage is at 100% while integrated GPU usage is at 5%
But i checked the FaH client and only GPU work is being accomplished on time.
While CPU work gives an ETA of 22 Days.

that sounds like everything is working then, you need to switch to seeing the compute performance not the video decode performace on nVidia kit you do this by viewing CUDA performance, not 100% sure on AMD

+1 to disabling the integrated graphics. Might need to do a clean uninstall and reinstall of the F@H client after the integrated graphics have been disabled in order to get it to recognize the discrete card.

You should be able to see the GPU performance of the discrete card with AMD Wattman. It's part of the standard Crimson driver suite
..if you don't have it, go check for a driver update