AMD Radeon 8870 GPU not recognised after driver upgrade
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2020 3:20 pm
Hello All,
I'm new to this folding business and wanted to help out by doing some covid-19 work units. I've been doing this for a couple of weeks, then realised the drivers for my graphics card were out-of-date. I was hoping that by updating the drivers I could squeeze a bit more performance out of them. I updated the drivers and now the FAH client doesn't seem to recognise or want to use my GPU.
Before the update, my graphics card was showing as an AMD Radeon HD 8870. After the upgrade, it shows as a AMD Radeon R9 M200X, similar to a couple of posts I found on the internet
The GPU now shows in FAH Control as:
In System Info, it says:
I tried uninstalling FAH and re-installing in the hope it may pick up the graphics card again, but it didn't. Is there anything I can do to resolve this and get my GPU folding again?
I'm new to this folding business and wanted to help out by doing some covid-19 work units. I've been doing this for a couple of weeks, then realised the drivers for my graphics card were out-of-date. I was hoping that by updating the drivers I could squeeze a bit more performance out of them. I updated the drivers and now the FAH client doesn't seem to recognise or want to use my GPU.
Before the update, my graphics card was showing as an AMD Radeon HD 8870. After the upgrade, it shows as a AMD Radeon R9 M200X, similar to a couple of posts I found on the internet
The GPU now shows in FAH Control as:
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gpu:1:{
vendor: 0,
device: 0,
type: 0,
species: 0,
description:
}
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Not detected: Failed to open dynamic library 'nvcuda.dll': The specified module could not be found