Add ability to take one GPU out of action (with immediate effect)

[hucker75]

I run Boinc aswell, and sometimes would like to switch a GPU out of use for Folding. For example, I had received a World Community Grid Boinc task (they're rare on GPU) and was trying to switch off the GPU which was trying to do both at once. I disabled a GPU (1 of 5 GPUs), and nothing happened, they all kept running, but in issue 115 you told me that would pause the work unit. Although I wasn't trying to pause the task, I wanted it to continue on another GPU when another task finished. I assume when that particular GPU finished the task, it would stop, but I wanted it immediate, mainly so I could tell I had the right GPU!

[jcoffland]

Yes, it should stop immediately but you have to save the settings by clicking the "Save" button.

[hucker75]

It doesn't stop. I unticked a GPU as shown, then clicked save. They all kept running, both in the web viewer and by watching GPU usage in MSI Afterburner.

[jcoffland]

Does this work correctly with v8.1.17?

[hucker75]

I hadn't realised there was a new version out. That has fixed the problem! (Sorry if you read the opposite just now, I thought I was in the other discussion, then edited this to correct it).

I did notice when I upgraded one of the machines (the one I view them from), it warned me the others were out of date. Is that a new feature? And will it work if it's own client is out of date?

[jcoffland]

All machines need to be updated for the fix to work.

[hucker75]

What I meant in the second paragraph was, in future, when the next version is released, if none of the machines have the new version, will I be informed in the version column? Or does one machine have to have been updated so it spots the difference?

[jcoffland]

No updates needed to see the version difference between the latest.