I have been running BOINC for a long time, and for the last couple of years the only project I run is Poem. Nothing has changed on my computer and all of a sudden, last week Poem starts using the GPU, and it seems to be slowing down my CPU work. Any advice? Can I turn off using the GPU anywhere? Thanks to all in advance.
Hi,
you can turn off GPU usage by making a file named cc_config.xml and placing it inside the BOINC directory. Below are the contents for that file you need to add
<cc_config>
<options>
<report_results_immediately>1</report_results_immediately>
<!--<no_gpus>1</no_gpus>-->
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<exclude_gpu>
<url>http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/</url>
<device_num>0</device_num>
</exclude_gpu>
</options>
</cc_config>
You can tweak the above a little. If you want to use the GPU but just not for POEM, the above will work. If you want to completely disable GPU usage, uncomment the <no_gpus> tag by removing the <!-- and --> and set <use_all_gpus> to 0