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Message 22906 - Posted: 6 Jan 2012 | 10:02:56 UTC

Good morning ^^

I have a little question about GPUGrid, BOINC and my new 560TI.

So, i forgotten last time to pause BOINC while gaming (have an extra Machine only for that) but the games running normaly and totaly fine in highest settings. I know BOINC CPU Work trotteling down due lowest OS Task priority. But does it the same with GPUs?? Or is this Graphicscard so damn fast? ORR is it because GPUGrid can use only i think 2/3 of the Shader cores and the rest is free for the games. Cant test it with other projects. Seti dont have work available and einstein dont use the whole GPU Core with a single thread.

Would be interessting, because the i will never pause BOINC again :D
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Message 22907 - Posted: 6 Jan 2012 | 11:28:21 UTC

The short answer is it depends on your game and how much video it wants to use.

There is an <exclusive_gpu_app> that you can list what apps (the .exe program names) and then BOINC will automatically suspend GPU use while running that prgram, in your case whatever games.

<exclusive_gpu_app>important.exe</exclusive_gpu_app> BOINC will suspend use of GPUs whenever the executable is running. New in 6.10.20


You put these lines in your cc_config.xml file (between the options tags) using a text editor. When you install BOINC it doesn't automatically create a cc_config.xml, you will need to create your own and put it into the BOINC data directory.

Example:

<cc_config>
<options>
<exclusive_gpu_app>important.exe</exclusive_gpu_app>
</options>
</cc_config>


So in this example you are saying to BOINC that whenever important.exe is running to suspend GPU activity. It will resume once important.exe is finished.
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