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BOINC + F@H

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jackkoho

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Hello,
I'm a regular BOINC user but I just upgraded my graphics card to a radeon 4850 so I DL/d F@H gpu version to take advantage of my gpu cycles.

I have core priority set to lowest possible. My question is this: Will BOINC programs take priority over F@H and use my CPU while still allowing F@H to use my gpu at the same time?

I think it should work this way but I want to know if anyone knows otherwise.

Jack
 
I know that in Vista there is no trouble with running the BOINC client as well as running the F@H GPU client as the GPU client in Vista doesn't need much in the way of CPU cycles. On XP, I'm not so sure as I haven't run the two at the same time and the GPU client needs more CPU cycles than Vista. I know the BOINC client does not play along well with the F@H CPU clients. Even when set on the same priority or lower priority than the F@H CPU client, the BOINC client will still steal away cycles from the F@H CPU client.

 
I dont know if there are any problems with doinc Boinc and FAH on ATI at the same ttime, but I set my 2 FAH GPU2 clients on my Nvidia cards to higher proirty and run 2 WCG's on Boinc on my dual core all at the same time and none of them interfier or slow each other down.
You should have no problems runing GPU2 FAH and Boinc at the same time.

 
SmokeRngs said:
I know that in Vista there is no trouble with running the BOINC client as well as running the F@H GPU client as the GPU client in Vista doesn't need much in the way of CPU cycles. On XP, I'm not so sure as I haven't run the two at the same time and the GPU client needs more CPU cycles than Vista. I know the BOINC client does not play along well with the F@H CPU clients. Even when set on the same priority or lower priority than the F@H CPU client, the BOINC client will still steal away cycles from the F@H CPU client.

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Good, forgot to mention that Im running vista 64.
 
boinc will take core priority over the F@H gpu client.. it will not cause any issues.. F@H gpu doesnt need more then 1-2% of the cpu in vista and XP.. the newer WU's in F@H actually require no cpu usage at all.. which is quite nice..

i currently run both in windows XP ive yet to have any conflicts with each other.. and running both does not effect PPD in F@H GPU and does not effect performance in WCG..
 
F@H gpu doesnt need more then 1-2% of the cpu in vista and XP.. the newer WU's in F@H actually require no cpu usage at all.. which is quite nice..
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This may be true for Nvidia CUDA cards, but not for ATI CAL on XP or Vista. My ATI machines need a CPU core per GPU. Try to load anything else on that CPU core and the video card PPD chokes.

 
mfl0p said:
This may be true for Nvidia CUDA cards, but not for ATI CAL on XP or Vista. My ATI machines need a CPU core per GPU. Try to load anything else on that CPU core and the video card PPD chokes.

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QFT. Especially with the 1.22 version of the core. With 1.18b, CPU usage was around 50% of a core, but the current version takes up a full core.
 
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