Hi Clara and TB =
I tried to upgrade from my WinXP F@H client ver. 6.23 to the new ver. 7 and found the same problem - everything slows down, and F@H doesn’t release when I’m active on the system. Did a lot of digging around the F@H Forum, and determined that the problem is the GPU portion of the folding client. Unlike the CPU, the GPU doesn’t allow for interrupts in a timely fashion, so anything that needs to update or re-paint the screen bogs down severely. You can adjust the CPU portion of the client to use less than 95-100% of the cycles if you want to, but there is no such adjustment for the GPU. Both Nvidia and AMS are aware of this and working on getting it resolved, but until then it flat sucks on a desktop/laptop system.
I took the ver. 7 out, and reverted back to the ver. 6.23. I won’t get as many points as the GPU folks will, but the science needs those projects too, so it’s all good. You can get the ver. 6.23 under the older version section of the F@H Download page. Good luck, and keep folding!
Hi! Thanks for the information about ver 7. I decided to pause FAH when I surf and then start it up again when I’m not. It works find.