Dual GPU system... Set 2nd card to boinc, and other to not?

[Dorsilfin]

Well Im finally getting around to enjoying my gaming rig I built =)

However, With my current configuration I only need 1 of my 570's to work for my gaming, so I was wondering if there is a way to tell BOINC to run only my 2nd card for gpu crunching so that I can continue to game but not have to tie up the whole system for gpu crunching?

[Bryan]

Yes there is but I can't tell you exactly how to do it. I think it takes a config file in the BOINC directory where you can tell it to exclude a card and it won't be used for crunching. There was a post on these forums a few weeks ago talking about it.

Someone will come along that knows how its done, I just wanted to let you know that it CAN be done.

[zombie67]

Use a config_cc.xml:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration

<ignore_cuda_dev>N</ignore_cuda_dev>, <ignore_ati_dev>N</ignore_ati_dev>
ignore (don't use) a specific NVIDIA or ATI GPU. You can ignore more than one. New in 6.10.19

[Dorsilfin]

Got it going!

<cc_config>
<options>
<use_all_gpus>1</use_all_gpus>
<ignore_cuda_dev>0</ignore_cuda_dev>
</options>
</cc_config>

seemed to be the trick, turns my 1st slot GPU off