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Message 2585 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 16:31:27 UTC
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Heya,

I got a GeForce 8800 GTS with 512 MB (G92 Chip so CUDA2 is supported), windows vista, the latest official cuda driver for windows vista which is 177.84, got the sdk and the toolkit installed and also am using the very latest boinc client (6.3.11) but still it aint playing ball the boinc manager still lists the in the title mentioned message.

How do I get it work on the GPU?

thx in advance!

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Message 2586 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 17:04:00 UTC

Do you have installed BOINC with the default settings(as a service/protected mode)?

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Message 2587 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 17:06:55 UTC
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Hi,

yes I have.

I just found something, my system doesn't seem to have a "nvcuda.dll" within the system32 windows directory or elsewhere although I installed everything cuda related. Any idea why?

EDIT: just found the file, so it's there but it still isn't working

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Message 2588 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 17:12:58 UTC

Well, I don't see any computer attached to your account, but if you have installed BOINC with default settings, I would first try to install it without the protected application execution mode.

On the configuration screen of the BOINC installer click on the "Advanced" button and uncheck the checkbox called "Protected application execution". If you still have problems after that, please post the first few lines of the messages tab after you started BOINC.
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Message 2589 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 17:20:30 UTC

Ok I will try that,

Another thing, I found two nvcuda.dll; one is about 1,41MB and the other about 913 KB, I tried both within the system32 and system directory but it didn't change anything so it's still not working.

Need to find out if cuda is working at all I guess,...

are there maybe any other cuda2 apps I could try to make sure CUDA2 is working on my system?

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Message 2591 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 17:25:58 UTC

Oh and I just signed up for http://www.gpugrid.net and my computer is listed now but I can't get any work. Is this normal?

24/09/2008 19:20:12|PS3GRID|Message from server: No work sent
24/09/2008 19:20:12|PS3GRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics is not available for your type of computer.
24/09/2008 19:20:12|PS3GRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics for Cell processor is not available for your type of computer.

I would guess this is PS3 only, right?

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Message 2592 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 17:44:54 UTC
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Ok, this did it, I reinstalled without the "protected application execution" mode and now it works and detects my CUDA device also the http://www.ps3grid.net/ project got work.

thx a lot!

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Message 2593 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 17:46:00 UTC
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After you started BOINC do you see something like

Coprocessor: Device emulation (CPU)(1)

in the messages tab, or does it show

Coprocessor: Geforce 8800 GTS ?

[edit]Just saw it is working now for you. I'm glad I could help a little bit. ;) [/edit]
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Message 2594 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 17:48:26 UTC
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After the reinstall it now shows my 8800 GTS as coprocessor:

24/09/2008 19:35:45||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4]
24/09/2008 19:35:45||Processor features: fpu tsc sse sse2 pni mmx
24/09/2008 19:35:45||OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Ultimate x86 Editon, Service Pack 1, (06.00.6001.00)
24/09/2008 19:35:45||Memory: 3.00 GB physical, 6.81 GB virtual
24/09/2008 19:35:45||Disk: 58.59 GB total, 1.35 GB free
24/09/2008 19:35:45||Local time is UTC +2 hours
24/09/2008 19:35:45||Not using a proxy
24/09/2008 19:35:45||CUDA devices found
24/09/2008 19:35:45||Coprocessor: GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (1)

Edit: heh, thx again!

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Message 2595 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 17:53:51 UTC
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Ah, I got one question left,... what about the cool visuals I know from the ps3, aren't there any for the PC/nvidia gpu part of the project?

Not that it would matter much but I'm curious.

edit: might be because of the "ready to start" state that I can't find anything!?

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Message 2596 - Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | 18:21:14 UTC

Well, the "cool vizualisations" on the PS3 are from Folding@home and not from PS3GRID. That's something different... ;)

As far as I know the project staff is working on a viszualization of the work that is done on you graphics card, but I don't know how soon it will be out...
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Message 2976 - Posted: 11 Oct 2008 | 10:32:59 UTC - in response to Message 2586.

Do you have installed BOINC with the default settings(as a service/protected mode)?

I get the same message: "no CUDA devices found"

What the matter with "service/protected mode"?
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Message 2977 - Posted: 11 Oct 2008 | 11:13:33 UTC - in response to Message 2976.


I get the same message: "no CUDA devices found"

What the matter with "service/protected mode"?


BOINC can not recognize the CUDA devices if it is installed in protected app execution mode/as a service. AFAIK Berkeley and Nvidia are working on a fix, but as of now GPUGRID only works if BOINC is not installed in protected mode...
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Message 2978 - Posted: 11 Oct 2008 | 11:36:47 UTC - in response to Message 2977.

Thanx for the quick answer.

Big question: how to change? :)

removing 6.3.14 failed.
reinstalling 6.218 failed.

Any help how to change from protected mode?
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Message 2984 - Posted: 11 Oct 2008 | 12:52:05 UTC - in response to Message 2978.

And why has it failed? Have you got any error messages?
This would be useful for the developers to look into that problem...

Maybe the Windows installer cleanup utility can help to uninstall BOINC.
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Message 3000 - Posted: 12 Oct 2008 | 12:28:01 UTC

simple problem no resolution.

At my first installation of boinc 6.x. i used the same dir for program and Data. No way out. :( So I delete all of boinc from filesystem an reg. And reinstall all.

Now it works
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Message 3003 - Posted: 12 Oct 2008 | 13:15:53 UTC

That´s strange.

I changed the data dir to the location on the programm dir to keep everything on one place (like the old 5.10.45 Versions did it) and it works just fine.
Installed 6.3.10 and now 6.3.14 and they run without problems.
Didn´t try a deinstallation.


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Message 3004 - Posted: 12 Oct 2008 | 13:28:34 UTC - in response to Message 3003.

I changed the data dir to the location on the programm dir to keep everything on one place (like the old 5.10.45 Versions did it) and it works just fine.


Same here. (on Win XP)

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Message 3005 - Posted: 12 Oct 2008 | 18:09:13 UTC

On VISTA are not enough rights in the program path for editing the data through the program. So I prefer to install the program in the program path and generate a different path (e.g. drive:\ProgramData\BOINC) for the programm data. So I can use the installation with different user accounts. The orignal installation will install the data path in the user path, so I can't use the program from different accounts.
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Message 3100 - Posted: 18 Oct 2008 | 9:07:05 UTC

18.10.2008 11:55:03||Starting BOINC client version 6.3.14 for windows_x86_64
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18.10.2008 11:55:03||Not using a proxy
18.10.2008 11:55:03||No CUDA devices found
18.10.2008 11:55:03||No coprocessors
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18.10.2008 11:55:28||Fetching configuration file from http://www.ps3grid.net/get_project_config.php
18.10.2008 11:55:53|PS3GRID|Master file download succeeded
18.10.2008 11:55:58|PS3GRID|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. Requesting 1 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
18.10.2008 11:56:03|PS3GRID|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
18.10.2008 11:56:03|PS3GRID|Message from server: No work sent
18.10.2008 11:56:03|PS3GRID|Message from server: Full-atom molecular dynamics is not available for your type of computer.
18.10.2008 11:56:06|PS3GRID|Started download of logops3grid.png
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Message 3101 - Posted: 18 Oct 2008 | 9:11:35 UTC

OOOOO found !!
VERY IMPORTANT, on Windows Vista is required that you disable 'protected mode' from the advanced tab during installation of BOINC!!!
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Message 3103 - Posted: 18 Oct 2008 | 9:50:18 UTC - in response to Message 3101.

This is what the first couple of posts in this thread are saying ;)

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Message 3447 - Posted: 28 Oct 2008 | 19:48:28 UTC

Hello,
Can you help now with solving this same problem on Gentoo Linux?
It works when I run it under console mode, but gets zero seconds of
work, and when run as a daemon it gives that same message.

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