BOINC cannot detect Intel HD 620

daghtus
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I have two laptops:

Lenovo 720s-15IKB with Intel 7300HQ + HD 630 & NVIDIA 1050 Ti Max-Q

Lenovo 720s-14IKB with Intel 8250U + HD 620 & NVIDIA MX 150

 

While BOINC easily detects the integrated HD 630 on my first laptop, it cannot do so with HD 620 on my other laptop. I even tried to install the latest drivers (unverified by Lenovo) from Intel's website but it did not help. Any ideas? GPU-Z can detect both chips.

Richard Haselgrove
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You are running Windows 10

You are running Windows 10 and BOINC v7.14.2

If by 'the latest drivers' you mean the new-format Windows DCH driver family that Microsoft is encouraging GPU developers to use, there is a problem (buffer overflow) in the current BOINC code which causes GPU detection to fail.

This is fixed in the next BOINC version (7.16.x), which should enter testing soon.

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/3183

daghtus
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Yes, I'm running v7.14.2 @

Yes, I'm running v7.14.2 @ Win 10. And yes, by latest drivers I meant the DCH driver v26.20.100.7000.

So I will wait until the next BOINC version gets released. Many thanks for your prompt and useful reply.

daghtus
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Replaced my current binaries

Replaced my current binaries with the pre-release ones and behold, everything works fine now.

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