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?
I bought an ASUS EAH4350 Silent video card, but I was disappointed, the video on the motherboard worked almost as well for Folding or video. Running the GPU version also caused video problems. I was thinking I might dedicate one of the GPU’s to folding and the other to video, but I didn’t have much luck setting that up and when I saw the GPU version wasn’t getting very many points, I quit trying.
As I mentioned the GPU was getting maybe 300 points per day, where the SMP was getting about 1000 per day with 4 cores. Trying anything other than the SMP version didn’t seem worthwhile.
Is there an advantage to having separate folders for each of the SMP cores? You can tell the setup program how many cores to use, and it will run separate instances of Folding on each of the cores, all from a single directory. That is how I have it running now.
OK, I see now, you are proposing to use the standard cores, not the SMP version, hence the separate folders. That should be easy enough, I do wonder about point production, though. I’ll have to experiment a bit more on the GPU situation, I suppose.