No support for NVidia 5000 series?

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Eric Driver Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 8 Jul 11 Posts: 1406 Credit: 733,412,617 RAC: 818,044	Message 3927 - Posted: 15 Aug 2025, 21:40:47 UTC - in response to Message 3926. Just to make everyone clear, what's reported in the post is not the actual driver version number. That is just what the Boinc client reports since the client is unable to report Nvidia driver version numbers past two decimal units. All drivers with xxx.xxx format will report as xxx.99 To see the real version number use the Nvidia software or dmesg or journal logs to find the correct and full version number. Thanks for pointing that out. I was unaware of this flaw in the client. Do you know if all clients do this, or just the older ones? ID: 3927 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 4 Jan 25 Posts: 28 Credit: 120,927,094 RAC: 554,583	Message 3928 - Posted: 15 Aug 2025, 23:14:37 UTC Last modified: 15 Aug 2025, 23:20:43 UTC In Windows i've only ever seen the driver expressed as xxx.xx I've never seen more than 2 digits after the . EDIT- I'm running v566.36 In Device manager, the driver version is listed as 32.0.15.6636, but it's always been referred to in the xxx.xx format (Nvidia settings, GPU-Z shows the full number, then in brackets (xxx.xx). Grant Darwin NT, Australia. ID: 3928 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Keith Myers Send message Joined: 14 May 23 Posts: 17 Credit: 267,327,037 RAC: 499,452	Message 3929 - Posted: 17 Aug 2025, 21:03:51 UTC - in response to Message 3927. It is in all versions for Linux clients. Nvidia never releases Windows drivers beyond .99 versions restricting to XXX.xx format. But for Linux drivers, they allow XXX.xxx versioning. This is what broke the client for server code that wouldn't recognize more than two decimal digits in the driver version number and then wouldn't send work to clients because it would not recognize an installed Nvidia driver. You can see the original https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3893 issue raised. Decision was made to just truncate any driver version number over two decimal digits to .99 since the proper and correct fix would entail a lot of work in both the client and server software stacks. The issue was just marked as a bug, (kludge fix) and closed. https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/3897/files ID: 3929 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Eric Driver Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 8 Jul 11 Posts: 1406 Credit: 733,412,617 RAC: 818,044	Message 3930 - Posted: 18 Aug 2025, 4:33:04 UTC - in response to Message 3929. It is in all versions for Linux clients. Nvidia never releases Windows drivers beyond .99 versions restricting to XXX.xx format. But for Linux drivers, they allow XXX.xxx versioning. This is what broke the client for server code that wouldn't recognize more than two decimal digits in the driver version number and then wouldn't send work to clients because it would not recognize an installed Nvidia driver. You can see the original https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3893 issue raised. Decision was made to just truncate any driver version number over two decimal digits to .99 since the proper and correct fix would entail a lot of work in both the client and server software stacks. The issue was just marked as a bug, (kludge fix) and closed. https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/3897/files Thanks for the explanation. I was unaware of this. ID: 3930 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Eric Driver Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 8 Jul 11 Posts: 1406 Credit: 733,412,617 RAC: 818,044	Message 3931 - Posted: 18 Aug 2025, 4:45:41 UTC To summarize, if you are having a problem with a 5000 series GPU on linux, try the following driver: 575.64 We know that it works on some hosts. ID: 3931 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote