I recently added a quad core AMD machine running Vista 64 bit. I was hoping to run the GPU core, but that didn’t work out, I was only getting a few hundred points a day, so I switched to the SMP core.
After some initial problems, it has been clicking along for a few months, but every time I try to install it as a service, the folding gets lost before long and just stops or refuses to upload results, etc, etc. So for now, I’m just running the console version in a window.
I read all I could find on this, but there is so much out of date info around, it is hard to figure out what works and what doesn’t.
Do you (or anyone here) happen to know if the SMP core can successfully run as a service under Vista 64 bit? If it can, I could use a few hints on how to do it. Just answering the questions in the setup program doesn’t seem to work, there must be other steps required.
Clean off everything from the old F@H directories. Use F@H to uninstall them to get rid of old registry commands, or use a registry cleaner.
Make four folders, F@H 1, F@H 2, F@H 3 and F@H GPU. Download the latest Windows clients 6.23 from here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download
And get the console version. Copy the program into the 3 F@H directories. Go into each directory and run the program within.
You must:
1. Include your same user name and team number (36120)
2. Choose Advanced Options = Y
3. Sat Yes to “Launch automatically, install as a service in this directory (yes/no) [no]?” Y
4. Under Advanced Options, you can set the Checkpoint Interval and the -advanced options (I say yes).
5. Most important, set each Machine ID to a unique number. I always set folder 1 to Machine ID 1, Folder 2 to Machine ID 2 and F@H 3 to Machine ID 3.
If you want to keep one system tray GUI running that is OK but I don't when I am running the GPU client.
Now, you will have three DOS boxes all merrily crunching along. I let them download a work unit and start crunching away. To close these DOS boxes, click inside the DOS box with the mouse, hit Ctrl-C to close the program properly, once for each box.
Reboot the computer and you will have three F@H cores running when you login. That leaves one core free for the GPU.
About the GPU - which video card do you use?
Which vid card were you running? Few hundred ppd sounds like some ain’t right. I installed a EVGA GT9400 on my kids’ computer and can expect 800ppd from it. I rally like this card since it can run on pretty low wattage (300-350).....C