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my AMD RX480 8GB is stuck in a wait loop. Any dirrection would be appreciated.



Short video: https://youtu.be/7pcwKMDThBg

I've had some assignment delays today on a species 7 GPU. I'm not sure if there are shortages for any specific species lately, especially us slower GPU's. I know that there were some shortages for the more powerful GPU's, but I think that has been resolved. I haven't seen anything indicating server issues, so it might just be GPU specific to the species. I haven't seen anything on the Discord, but will let you know if I do.

How long have you gone without assignment?

Os: Windows 10 VM on UnRaid
Client Version: 8.4.9
CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core Processor
GPU: Ellesmere (AMD RX480 8GB)
Driver Version: 31.0.21923.11000
Driver Date: 2025-07-01
Drive File: whql-amd-software-adrenalin-edition-25.8.1-win10-win11-aug-vega-polaris.exe

OpenCL: Supported
Compute: 2.0
Driver: 3584.0

HIP: Unsupported


Please let me know if I can provided any other details


Log:
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BobWilliams757 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 26, 2025 5:04 pm I've had some assignment delays today on a species 7 GPU. I'm not sure if there are shortages for any specific species lately, especially us slower GPU's. I know that there were some shortages for the more powerful GPU's, but I think that has been resolved. I haven't seen anything indicating server issues, so it might just be GPU specific to the species. I haven't seen anything on the Discord, but will let you know if I do.

How long have you gone without assignment?

I havent folded for about 6 years.
So I feel completely new at this again.
I have been trying to get it to work on and off for about a week.

480 is old and nearly obsolete. It will not get too many work units to fold. On top of that future upgrade in HIP will not officially support Poliaris or older GPUs.

muziqaz wrote: ↑Sun Oct 26, 2025 6:14 pm 480 is old and nearly obsolete. It will not get too many work units to fold. On top of that future upgrade in HIP will not officially support Poliaris or older GPUs.

Is there any way for you internal testers to see actual numbers of what is in the assignment ques? Just curious, since I had some delays (less than an hour) on a species 7 GPU as well.

BobWilliams757 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 26, 2025 6:23 pm

muziqaz wrote: ↑Sun Oct 26, 2025 6:14 pm 480 is old and nearly obsolete. It will not get too many work units to fold. On top of that future upgrade in HIP will not officially support Polaris or older GPUs.

Is there any way for you internal testers to see actual numbers of what is in the assignment ques? Just curious, since I had some delays (less than an hour) on a species 7 GPU as well.

No way for us to see, but at the moment there is only one lab holding the fort.

You can see the numbers of jobs in the various queues here: https://apps.foldingathome.org/serverstats (it contains a lot of useful information)
Until today, the number of GPU folding jobs has been very small indeed with just over 3,000 available and hence the reason you (and I) were getting a lot of Work Unit unavailable messages. When I just checked, the number stood at 15,000+ and no more waiting until the numbers get very low.

As muziqaz said above. Only one lab was holding the fort.