as far as i can tell my log when starting boinc does not indicate that my gpu is insufficient.

Your laptop has a GT 550M, which is a Fermi architecture GPU. It has compute capability 2.1. This GPU is too old for the GPUGrid client.
BTW do not use Windows 7 anymore.

Yes, if you don't have a relatively modern Nvidia card with sufficient VRAM, you cannot crunch for this project.

Yup... I found my old 9400 GT and popped it into one of my old systems, only to find that it wouldn't get tasks from GPUGRID. The GTX 960, on the other hand, is happily crunching away.

Then I looked again at nvidi-smi on the 9400, and sure enough, it says "Not Supported" under the computing task list. Oh well.

Aurum and Retvari Zoltan, thanks for your replies. i did have that option checked but if the laptop is too ancient then that's it for me. a new machine is not in the cards at this time. and i like my Win7 machine. heck, i kind of miss windows 2000.

I would like to see in mainstream informations media advertisement of rosetta@home project and other similar initiatives, so the question is: how to tell to big decision-makers and to people the existence of all this stuff to cooperate all together against covid-19??!

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