OK..what do I need?
If Lee's doing it..I can too
Spell it allout in plain English. How do I fold and can I turn it off so it doesnt cook my online gaming?
OK..what do I need?
If Lee's doing it..I can too
Spell it allout in plain English. How do I fold and can I turn it off so it doesnt cook my online gaming?
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
Firstly, I'll let you know what I've found out in regards to folding or other similar CPU crunching tools.
many games - be it BF2, HL2, CS:S don't really need the application closed* when playing as the processes for the crunching only get the CPU time if nothing else is using them.
As such, when your playing games etc you can safely crunch without closing the application down. However, some people prefer to turn it off and the way to this is to simply right-click the icon off the program in the taskbar near the clock, and select "CLOSE" and it closes it down
* - dependant on PC specification - YMMV when running on your own systems.
As for the program itself, you can find the list of which ones are available at the following link ;
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
You have the choice of graphical i.e on screen, or console based apps, but most people prefer to see what their system is doing![]()
Last edited by Lee H; 21-05-2007 at 03:32 PM.
What version do you want to run? There's a normal windows one, a GPU (ATI x1900+) one, a multiple processor one (beta), and a barebones console one.
Looking at your spec, the GPU client will do the most work, though maybe you should get started on the normal windows one first of all.
1) goto http://folding.stanford.edu and read about stuff
2) download the client of your choice from http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html
3) assuming the normal windows graphical client, double click the exe and answer the installation questions.
By default it adds the client to your windows startup group, so it will load in the background each time windows boots. You can remove it from the startup group no problem if you don't want this.
You can run it manually at any time by choosing it from the start->programs menu.
The first time you run it you get more questions - you can run it as a screensaver etc.
You can also set user/team information now I think.
When it's running it's at idle priority - when you launch any other programs it will idle so free up resources. In reality it can give a very small % hit, but it's nothing to worry about on most machines.
If you want to run the GPU client, check your driver version - I think it only runs on later ones.
Installed the GPU client - will it use the CPu as well or do I run it twice
no I'm not installing it in the datacentre![]()
my Virtualisation Blog http://jfvi.co.uk Virtualisation Podcast http://vsoup.net
My GRAPHICS card? OK...officially suprised now.
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
ATi only at the present time by the look of it, but I wouldn't be suprised mate - think about it what part has progressed faster than anything else within a PC over the last 3 years?
Yeap - GPU
It makes sense to make use of the power in them now as some of them must be faster and quicker than some of the CPU's floating about.
Sites all dead at the motypical...just as I'm interested.
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
Figures I heard were they're roughly 40x quicker than a CPU at this kind of task
Your graphics card is essentially a massively parallel floating point computer- and a shader is just a small processor. Code your equations in terms the shaders can calculate, and you basically get 48 processors (on a x1900 card) working on the problem, instead of one or two
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and do I join a team?
Found : 69776
Last edited by Zak33; 21-05-2007 at 04:51 PM. Reason: found team I think
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
Error codes about Dx9 now. hmm...
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
well DX9c went on this machine over a year ago...but I'll download the latest one from Microsoft before I give up.
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
reinstall DX 9.0C from a disc or alternatively download the setup files from the link HERE
*cough* get some work done *cough*
ok...think it's sorted.
Here we go....1900 at the ready.
Originally Posted by Advice Trinity by Knoxville
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