Hi.
Got a new HP laptop with 2 video cards:
* Intel 630
* NVIDIA GeForce GTX1660 Ti with Max-Q Design (using the studio driver, not the gaming driver).
I was hoping to force BOINC to use NVIDIA card, since it is evidently more powerful, yet, the Intel 630 is being used at 10% and NVIDIA 0%.
CPUs working OK at 100%
Any tip, suggestion, comment to get the 2 gpu cards working simultaneously????
Thanks in advance
@rodrigolobos

HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-dk0xxx
Win10, BOINC 7.14.2(x64)
SETI@Home
BOINC as a Service

Do you have the correct OpenCL Nvidia drivers installed for the card? Do you have <use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus> set in your cc_config.xml file?

BOINC as a Service

Doubt it because then none of your GPUs are detected and used due to the drivers being in a different venue than BOINC is.

Detection does need drivers with all needed components, so get the driver from the GPUs manufacturers site

Do you have <use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus> set in your cc_config.xml file?

That is only needed when you have two or more mixed models GPUs of the same brand, not when you have one model of different brands.

E.g.
You are rich and have four identical RTX 2080 Ti Super? No need for this line.
You have one Intel, one Nvidia and one AMD GPU? No need for this line.

But have one RTX 2080, one RTX 2070 Super, one GTX 1650 and a GTX 1080 and you have all the same brand, mixed models so now you do need that line.

The code behind the line only orders same brand GPUs.

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Many thanks for the tips, but I found the problem was the installation with BOINC service installation.
The default should be NO service installation.
Re-install the app as described here and both are working
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=11429

In fact, there were additional files to be downloaded from the SETI project itself, within BOINC (and other projects like Einstein as well) that required additional exe files related to GPU, such as :

hsgamma_FGRPBG_1.22_WINDOWS_X86_64__FGRPopenclTV-nvidia.exe
einstein_O2AS20-500_1.09_windows_x86_64_GW-opencl-nvidia.exe
setiathome_8.00_windows_intelx86__cuda42.exe

These were downloaded along the Working Units

The default installation is No service install. It will only be a service install if you change that in the advanced options in the installer. But like I said earlier, then the Intel GPU wouldn't have been detected either, because a service install uses a limited user account which cannot read drivers installed by the user and drivers are needed for GPU detection.

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