F@H GPU Failed, Video Performance Lag

[crashtech]

Recently I installed a 1060 into my office machine, a Haswell i3 with an el cheapo Rosewill 450W PSU. Got it installed okay, deleted the CPU slot, everything is working. After working for a while, F@H reported "GPU Failed", which persisted over several days, multiple reboots, and remove/add of the GPU slot. Convinced that the PSU was the problem, I ordered a new Seasonic, but in the meantime I wanted to get this thing to work. After noticing that productivity applications were suffering from severe lag that seemed video related, even after moving the folding power slider down to medium, I decided to go into the BIOS and enable dual monitor with iGPU priority, and plugged the monitor back into the mobo. Now my office apps work great, and F@H is purring along at full steam. Just thought I would share, in case anyone else has these issues.

Edit: The GPU failed overnight again. so this is not a good fix for that part of the problem, though it is good for the video lag issue.

 

[Orange Kid]

Thanks for the info. Good to know.

 

[Markfw]

I just had the same problem with my only win 10 box I had to revert to the 373.06 driver for nvidia and that was my fix.

I just upgraded to the newest version of win 10, and had to do this, and remove and reinstall my sound drivers. MS bites.

 

[Markfw]

In another post this was how I found out: (thanks iwajabitw)

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=29276

 

[iwajabitw]

In another post this was how I found out: (thanks iwajabitw)

https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=29276

That seems to be the culprit, 2hrs now with no failures.

 

[crashtech]

That's interesting, I'm sure I have the latest drivers on the office rig. Maybe the new driver only crashes if it actually has to display something...

 

[VirtualLarry]

F@H has always caused GUI lag for me, when doing GPU crunching, while I'm trying to use the box.

Too bad we don't have GPU hardware thread priorities, that interact with the OS, so that the GUI and media playback get top priority over DC "background" tasks. Maybe in a few years from now.

 

[crashtech]

Certainly it seems like rolling back the driver fixes the GPU failure problem, thank you gentlemen for setting me straight!