GreenReaper

Thanks, man! This also helped with the AMD APP SDK 3.0 beta, too, for OpenCL 2.0 support on Vista x86 (otherwise you're stuck on 2.8 and 1.2). This is necessary for, say, OpenCL support in BOINC, which doesn't seem to want to work with the files the drivers install. There are however some things you have to do to get this working: Get the APP SDK installer, use the download option and wait for the first file to download ( AMD-SDKInstaller-v1.3.158-Beta-windows-F-x86.exe ) You can abort after the x64 version starts if you don't care about that. Start the installer. It may fail instantly with "Failed to create the control linkAMDPrivacyPolicy on the dialog InstallWelcome." LEAVE THIS DIALOG OPEN. Open your %temp% folder (start/run/%temp%), sort by date, open the most recently-created directory, and find the msi file "AMD SDK Installer 1.3.msi" Click the directory name to select it, copy it, then paste it after 'cd' into a new command window, e.g. cd C:\Users\GREENR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\{B0257F5E-F621-4FFE-A6FD-B7CDF257E45A} Do that, and then run: msiexec /qb /i "AMD SDK Installer 1.3.msi" It will run with basic UI and install the whole SDK. You can now close the install dialog on the intiial install, which will delete the setup file. Check it's working (clinfo should not crash and should give the GPU, BOINC should not say GPU removed). If you have issues, check that the AMD APP SDK bin folder has made it into the path. You might need to logoff to reset it. Don't want to use up all the space with the samples? Either run the downloaded .exe again (which will now work because it doesn't ask you for the license) or go to Programs and Features, find the AMD SDK Installer 1.3 and uninstall the Media SDK and all the subfeatures of the Advanced Parallel Processing SDK, but leave the APP SDK itself installed. Should free up a chunk of space, though the binaries and lib files are still 130MB (try compressing the AMD APP SDK folder). If clinfo shows that your platform is 2.0 but your GPU device is 1.2, you probably don't have an OpenCL 2.0 supported device (Wikipedia). Oh well.