Yes well you know if you get on their email list they let us know the day they come out and I don't have the newest and fastest cards or CPU's but I do have 4 different Geforce versions so I usually start updating the drivers on my slowest GPU's since here we are just hoping for a faster GPU card.
I had planned on staring with my slowest GeForce 610M in the laptop but my DSL was so slow that day that I gave up and put it back to work since you need to suspend the tasks when you install or you most likely will get a computer error and lose the tasks you have running.
So instead just now I did the driver update on one of my 650Ti OC'd cards which is slower than another 650Ti I have just because of the particular CPU that they each have.
So now I will watch the task times on here and see if I get a couple mins shaved off the times.
Then I will give it another try on the 610M
And then maybe the 2 550Ti's and the other 650Ti and 660Ti OC'd cards
OK apprently I screwed up something! I just tried installing the new driver. I run a 780 & 770 winxp64. First did a custom to only install the graphic & audio drivers. I restarted...all my current gpu tasks errored out.Unfortunatly I did not view log :( . Yes I did suspend all tasks and closed BOINC First. Next I tried again to install again and did a clean install. Restarted opened BOINC and checked log and it showed "no usable gpu" rinse repeat.. Did a sys restore to a point from a couple days ago. It put back the old driver (the one shown currently)and back to running of course no new gpu tasks till tommorow because of to many errors. I will retry again next few days. Should I be aware of somthing along the way to help the process ? THANX in advance ( I just love new graphic drivers ! )
Try setting boinc to "No New Tasks" and letting all tasks finish and get reported, or abort unfinished tasks, then update your driver.
I've had the same thing happen to me. Something about the new code in the updated driver is not compatible with files created by apps using the old driver I think.
Phil
Edit: You will probably need to do a terminal command line restart of boinc. I can't remember the command off the top of my head. It's somewhere here in the forums.
The way I always do it and that has never failed is I download the new driver and then before I start the *install I just pause the GPU tasks (I let others run such as vLHC since they are not GPU tasks)
Then when the install is finished I pause ALL of the tasks and reboot and then start all those tasks once again and they never fail.
Einstein GPU tasks just start right back up where they were with the new driver and all the other tasks do the same.
And the updated driver will not show on your list of computers page until you do that reboot after the install.
The way I always do it and that has never failed is I download the new driver and then before I start the *install I just pause the GPU tasks (I let others run such as vLHC since they are not GPU tasks)
Then when the install is finished I pause ALL of the tasks and reboot and then start all those tasks once again and they never fail.
Einstein GPU tasks just start right back up where they were with the new driver and all the other tasks do the same.
And the updated driver will not show on your list of computers page until you do that reboot after the install.
The way I always do it and that has never failed is I download the new driver and then before I start the *install I just pause the GPU tasks (I let others run such as vLHC since they are not GPU tasks)
Then when the install is finished I pause ALL of the tasks and reboot and then start all those tasks once again and they never fail.
Einstein GPU tasks just start right back up where they were with the new driver and all the other tasks do the same.
And the updated driver will not show on your list of computers page until you do that reboot after the install.
(as you can tell I haven't updated my two 550Ti cards yet)
But are the units crunching faster now? I looked at your valid tasks but all seem to have been run with the new drivers.
I still have those two 550Ti's running the previous driver just because I liked the timing they have now which is why I only updated the other 4 hosts.
As far as the new driver the time is pretty much exactly the same other than the slowest 650Ti OC running on the slower quad-core CPU is about one minute faster but that may have nothing to do with the new driver.
I´m running the GWopencl Beta applications. Here have I got a great speed improvement on my GTX660 if Einstein have not done anything to WU size. Application have the same number.
I´m running the GWopencl Beta applications. Here have I got a great speed improvement on my GTX660 if Einstein have not done anything to WU size. Application have the same number.
nVidia GeForce Driver time again.....
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Oooooooh I love it when someone ELSE tests the new drivers!!!
Yes well you know if you get
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Yes well you know if you get on their email list they let us know the day they come out and I don't have the newest and fastest cards or CPU's but I do have 4 different Geforce versions so I usually start updating the drivers on my slowest GPU's since here we are just hoping for a faster GPU card.
I had planned on staring with my slowest GeForce 610M in the laptop but my DSL was so slow that day that I gave up and put it back to work since you need to suspend the tasks when you install or you most likely will get a computer error and lose the tasks you have running.
So instead just now I did the driver update on one of my 650Ti OC'd cards which is slower than another 650Ti I have just because of the particular CPU that they each have.
So now I will watch the task times on here and see if I get a couple mins shaved off the times.
Then I will give it another try on the 610M
And then maybe the 2 550Ti's and the other 650Ti and 660Ti OC'd cards
RE: So now I will watch the
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So what's the verdict? I just updated to 340.52 as well, but have only run a couple WUs with it so far.
OK apprently I screwed up
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OK apprently I screwed up something! I just tried installing the new driver. I run a 780 & 770 winxp64. First did a custom to only install the graphic & audio drivers. I restarted...all my current gpu tasks errored out.Unfortunatly I did not view log :( . Yes I did suspend all tasks and closed BOINC First. Next I tried again to install again and did a clean install. Restarted opened BOINC and checked log and it showed "no usable gpu" rinse repeat.. Did a sys restore to a point from a couple days ago. It put back the old driver (the one shown currently)and back to running of course no new gpu tasks till tommorow because of to many errors. I will retry again next few days. Should I be aware of somthing along the way to help the process ? THANX in advance ( I just love new graphic drivers ! )
Try setting boinc to "No New
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Try setting boinc to "No New Tasks" and letting all tasks finish and get reported, or abort unfinished tasks, then update your driver.
I've had the same thing happen to me. Something about the new code in the updated driver is not compatible with files created by apps using the old driver I think.
Phil
Edit: You will probably need to do a terminal command line restart of boinc. I can't remember the command off the top of my head. It's somewhere here in the forums.
The way I always do it and
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The way I always do it and that has never failed is I download the new driver and then before I start the *install I just pause the GPU tasks (I let others run such as vLHC since they are not GPU tasks)
Then when the install is finished I pause ALL of the tasks and reboot and then start all those tasks once again and they never fail.
Einstein GPU tasks just start right back up where they were with the new driver and all the other tasks do the same.
And the updated driver will not show on your list of computers page until you do that reboot after the install.
Like this
http://einsteinathome.org/account/82814/computers
(as you can tell I haven't updated my two 550Ti cards yet)
RE: The way I always do it
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But are the units crunching faster now? I looked at your valid tasks but all seem to have been run with the new drivers.
RE: RE: The way I always
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I still have those two 550Ti's running the previous driver just because I liked the timing they have now which is why I only updated the other 4 hosts.
As far as the new driver the time is pretty much exactly the same other than the slowest 650Ti OC running on the slower quad-core CPU is about one minute faster but that may have nothing to do with the new driver.
I´m running the GWopencl
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I´m running the GWopencl Beta applications. Here have I got a great speed improvement on my GTX660 if Einstein have not done anything to WU size. Application have the same number.
RE: I´m running the
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Now THAT is good news!!