Has the Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) for Intel GPU program been fixed for the 10 series drivers??
10 Jan 2014 5:53:32 UTC
Topic 197334
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As everyone knows who has tried to run the BRPS Intel GPU program using Windows, the 10 series Intel driver crashes the program right away...
Windows 8.1 does not like the 9.18.10.2989 series driver for the Intel HD 4600 GPU. When I downgraded the 10 series driver to 9.18.10.2989 a couple of days ago so I could run the BRPS Intel GPU program it corrupted my graphics, leaving boxes with X's through them on my web browser (such as the search bar on the google.com page on IE11 and Firefox). Well I can tolerate that, its not a big deal.
But Windows decided to upgrade my Intel GPU driver without my permission (I certainly wouldn't do that while running a BRPS Intel GPU workunit, and specifically told Windows not to update drivers with Windows Update). But it did it anyway. Now BRPS Intel GPU workunits run correctly on my computer using the troubled 10 series driver (10.18.10.3368 to be exact). So far I've run 3 workunits correctly, 1 of them verified (even after a restart).
http://einsteinathome.org/workunit/181866268
So what is this? Some kind of mutant half-assed install of the 10 series driver, or was the BRPS program fixed while we weren't looking?
If it was fixed nice job!
Has the Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) for Intel GPU progr
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Interesting... no, we did not fix anything lately, the intel iGPU app is and always was a renamed copy of the AMD/ATI OpenCL app. So maybe it's not about the driver per se not working, but a glitch in the installation/upgrade procedure?
Cheers
HBE
I don't understand it either.
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I don't understand it either. Perhaps its a holdover .dll or .sys file that is allowing the driver to run the program. But there still are glitches. Every time the screen goes to sleep it crashes the driver, and sometimes the workunit. And other times if the screen goes to sleep I am able to restart BOINC and the workunit will finish up with no other problems. Maybe its because I did a clean install of the 9 series driver, and Windows upgraded it to the 10 series, it kept an old 9 series file that it shouldn't have, or it was orphaned and now the workunits can run.
Today I upgraded from Win 8
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Today I upgraded from Win 8 to 8.1 and Win installed driver 10.18.10.3379 automatically for my HD4000. Einstein seems to work without problems so far, could even be a bit faster.
MrS
Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002
Update: yes, performance
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Update: yes, performance increase confirmed :)
MrS
Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002
Tried to do the update on
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Tried to do the update on another machine with Win 7 64 - and here the same driver causes a driver reset as soon as Einstein starts on the Intel GPU. So it's a problem of driver version and OS - clearly Intels fault, not the Einstein app.
Edit: did anyone already report the bug to Intel?
MrS
Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002
My best guess is that this is
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My best guess is that this is an issue that pertains to the Haswell 4th gen Intel GPU. They are having problems crunching the Intel BRPS program with Windows 8.1. At least that's what I observed from upgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. I was crunching units fine with Windows 8, however when I upgraded to 8.1 those workunits would crash. Presumably the graphics driver was also upgraded along with the operating system. As I use the Intel GPU as my primary GPU Windows would complain that the GPU driver has reset.
People were told to downgrade the driver back to a previous 9 series driver that did work. However that corrupted my graphics with some Windows programs.
I haven't reported the issue to Intel because my computer is now able to crunch those workunits with the 10.18.10.3368 driver, and I wouldn't know how to begin to explain how that happened.
In my case it was an Ivy
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In my case it was an Ivy Bridge HD4000 in both cases, so not only Haswell is affected.
MrS
Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002
hi friends have tried today
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hi friends
have tried today run Einstein after a Long time again with Windows-7-64
the Hardware is:
Intel i7-3770K
Nvidia-630(Fermi)
cpu is ok
nvidia gpu is ok
Intel HD4000 produce an error calculating BRPS-1.34 with Driver 10.18.10.3345 and restart the Driver
seti running fine without Errors
greetings
Ralf
Boinc runs here on:
Intel i7-3770K + IntelHD4000
Android-Stick-ARM-Cotex-A17
Sony-Z5C-ARM-Cortex-A53/A57
Nvidia GT-630 / Nvidia GTX-750Ti
RE: Intel HD4000 produce
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Hi Ralph,
a known bug in the intel driver, downgrade to an earlier version. That helped in all known cases.
@Alex thx for info later i
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@Alex
thx for info
later i try Driver Version 3257
hope it work
Boinc runs here on:
Intel i7-3770K + IntelHD4000
Android-Stick-ARM-Cotex-A17
Sony-Z5C-ARM-Cortex-A53/A57
Nvidia GT-630 / Nvidia GTX-750Ti