Apr
22
2020
I revisited my "Folding At Home" (FAH) system to see if I could improve my overall performance. My thought was to update the drivers and use the most recent FAH Client. I was hoping I could get my GPU working more than occasionally.
First I determined that my graphic drivers were rather old -- about 3 generations old! I performed an upgrade to get the latest and greatest from AMD for my Radeon RX 570 graphics card. At one time this was considered a real fast card -- today in 2020 it is just average.
With the graphics card was using the new drives, I was still seeing no activity on the FAH Client. So I installed the latest FAH Client - version 7.6.9 - and that's when things went south!
FAH Client reported that there no graphics card or more specifically no supported GPU existed on my machine. WHAT? When I had originally installed FAH, I had to manually tell FAH to use the GPU. So I tried that ... no luck. OK, off to Google to see if anyone else has had this issue -- best I could find is that there is a bug is 7.6.9 that has been fixed in 7.6.10 to address "missing" GPUs.
So I uninstalled 7.6.9 and re-installed 7.5.1 that I was running previously. It now saw my GPU without having to manually tell it to use the GPU (new drivers helped I assume), but still no activity on my GPU. SO I need to wait for 7.6.10 or better.
![](http://catskill.dyndns-remote.com:8080/images/FAH/FAH_Reinstall_751.png)
Here are my stats at the time of writing
![initial stats](http://catskill.dyndns-remote.com:8080/images/FAH/FAH_Stats_22apr2020.png)
Here are my current stats (live)
![live stats](https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/sigs/sigimage.php?un=tz3p9v&t=57391)
Typically if the GPU has worked then the "Today" for tz3p9v value will be > 100,000.
/Paul