Ultimate Guide To Folding@home

[Beau C]

Yes well done lynx congratulations ...erm what was the team number again?

[Southern Plunger]

Originally posted by Livy@25 February 2004 - 14:48
try updaating your graphics driver,

has it always done this? or just recently?

Nothing wrong with my driver.
I happened this morning after my modem resets himself.

If i leave the Icon alone it's ok. Right-clicking is allowed, left is not.
As long as it's running it fine by me.
Hoovering over the icon gives all the info i need anyway.


Thanks for your help Ivy.

[da king]

ok i came back from school early....toaday turn over day...so u could skip classes so i came early...

ok ill expain gromacs

There are 2 cores (FAHCore_78.exe and FAHCore_65.exe) you can check which core you are running by pushing CTRL+ALT+DELETE...

CORE_78 is gromacs the new fast one...
CORE_65 is the slow one

most of you probably have core_65 so u want it to be core_78

Method:
Either make a shorcut or use the startup shortcut (which is already there) from "winFAH.exe" which is probably in your "folding@home directory" (in program files)

now go to your shortcut and RIGHT CLICK>PROPERTIES then change this:
add -advmethods -forceasm at the end of the target after the (")
just copy and paste this.... "C:\Program Files\Folding@Home\winFAH.exe" -advmethods -forceasm (if ur using the default directory..)

PIC:

it should look something like tht

then click ok and when the WU ur working on right now is done the "winfah.exe" will AUTOMATICALLY download the new core_78 and you will be folding gromacs in ur next project
u can check ur LOG file to see if it is using the gromacs are not at the beginng of a project..
but sometimes you dont always get gromacs....so then u will get the use the old core...

remember the old core projects are usually out of 400..

but you will see a big difference in the folding speed with the gromacs for sure

i hope this explains it well....
if u still have questions feel free to ask...

[$_BabiiGiirl_x0x]

Installed and running now.
Good idea moving it to the lounge, I'm sure a load more peeps will see this now.

[Snow Fall]

1. there shoudlnt be any risks with running it. just keep an eye on your temps after a couple of minutes

2. if you remove it, it wont remove everything, it will leave the work unit you are working on and previous settings etc. but can easily be removed by deleting the install folder.

3. not to sure, i think its just stanford/

4. i think its pretty worthwhile.

5. i think the pics are just random, although some of them do actually look like that

[Youknoww.]

stopped using it srry, it was causing to much 'errors' and 'lags' on my custom GUI. even on the lowest CPU

{I}{K}{E}

[Panda Bear O_o]

and just to prove how much this helps look at the team stats page...

i used to be in 25th or 26th place and look at me now.....

im geting like 4WUs done in 24hrz sometimes even 5WUs

[ilovem&m]

coming up for 3000 WU's and 100,000 points.
9wu's to go and 1355 point to go

edit: also congrats to VB and Rocktron for 5000 points, and tracydani for 1000

[cowboy_fan]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Rocktron+25 February 2004 - 15:38-->QUOTE (Rocktron @ 25 February 2004 - 15:38)










Post Icons:

[Terri L]

Twice now since I've been using F@H, it's crashed taking hours of CPU time with it. The first time I lost about 71% of a work unit, due to a communications error with the server:

"[06:21:45] Completed 355000 out of 500000 steps (71)
[06:33:02] CoreStatus = 1 (1)
[06:33:02] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x1
[06:33:02] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
[06:33:22] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[06:33:24] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:33:24] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:33:27] + Could not connect to Assignment Server
[06:33:27] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2
[06:33:27] + Couldn't get work instructions.
[06:33:27] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry."

Which prompted me to stop using it. I retried it the other day, got one WU completed. My PC crashed again today, and no surprise, F@H lost its WU again:

"[16:33:30] Completed 480000 out of 500000 steps (96)"