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[El_Machinae]

It saves your work at certain intervals. If you turn off your computer after a certain amount of work is done (before the save interval), your computer will have to redo the work.

But please, spam their forums. It doesn't lock up on me after screensaver. I'm using Win XP and the newest version.

 

[bhsup]

The program isn't working... it locks up every time I revive the computer from screensaver or hibernation

I would urge everybody to use the console version and set it up as a service (assuming you are running Windows 2K or XP). Sure, you don't get the pretty eye candy, but it's also quite stable. It starts going as soon as you fire up your computer and you don't have to do a thing with it.

Oh, and if you need to stop it to play Civ, just run "services.msc", scroll down until you see a service with "FAH" in the name and stop it. Restart it after you are done playing Civ. That may not even be necessary, just depends on your system and what WU you're crunching. I allow big and advanced work units, so the memory requirements can sometimes easily top 100MB just for folding.

There are, by the way, visualization programs for the console client. Electron Microscope III is the only one I am familiar with, but I think there are others as well. Check out the folding forums.

 

[Abaddon]

Well done to those who have finished one folding project! Kudos to:

Till, VRWCAgent, Sophie_378, Johan_Bage

 

[Till]

The program runs stable on my machine (using win2k here). It's been running non stop for two days now. The only weird thing are the eta estimations.

 

[bhsup]

Man, my second WU I got after my first finished is one of those big honking ones. Since I have to stop it if I play Civ, it probably won't be done until tomorrow night sometime, and I got it mid-day Thursday.

Oh, by the way. That link I gave on the first page to the extreme overclocking site? Well, if anybody is going there and wondering why we're not showing up there yet, I was wrong. We won't appear on there until the team cracks the top 2000.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I downloaded it and joined.

 

[IglooDame]

Well done to those who have finished one folding project! Kudos to:

Till, VRWCAgent, Sophie_378, Johan_Bage

Slozenger, you might want to PM the folks listed at the old CFC OT Folding team and see if they'll switch over; that team has largely faded (I uninstalled most if not all of mine when the project had a couple weeks of screwy downtime) and (like Scuffer, Chukchi Husky, and I) would be willing to start up again.

Being able to run without being logged in is a huge improvement, where I'm sitting.

 

[Abaddon]

yea i'll give that a go, cheers!

 

[Blasphemous]

I joined (the program and the team)... Almost three days left on the first WU... I'll jack up the max CPU usage once the weather here gets a bit colder, don't want my CPU (Intel P4 2Ghz) above 50°c (where it currently is, at 80%.)

 

[toh6wy]

Is there any disadvantage to setting the checkpoint frequency really low? I think it would be a good idea for it to save its work often.

 

[Abaddon]

hmm, not thought of that one To6y.. i'll give it a go.

 

[IglooDame]

Is there any disadvantage to setting the checkpoint frequency really low? I think it would be a good idea for it to save its work often.

I'd guess that it just requires slightly more drive space or internet usage.

 

[ironduck]

I joined the team as well

I used to run a client for stem cell research, but it was such a bug on the system I had to uninstall it.. this seems to be much more sensitive to other applications, so as soon as I need power for another program it downprioritizes itself immediately.

 

[bhsup]

I'd guess that it just requires slightly more drive space or internet usage.

Just drive space, and not even that much. The only bandwidth needed is when it is downloading new work units or sending in the results. The entire work folder for the WU I am folding right now is only 32MB, including checkpoint, etc.

 

[Abaddon]

I joined the team as well

so as soon as I need power for another program it downprioritizes itself immediately.

Welcome and your right.. i can have it running in the background all the time- sure it doesnt doo much when im busy- but it soon fires up if i leave my comp for 5 mins.

 

[IglooDame]

Interesting that it doesn't list you on the team until you've completed your first work unit...

 

[Abaddon]

indeed- get a nice feeling of satisfaction was you see names go up

Bizarrly, ive now finished 3, but seen as one was teeny tiny (only 500/500) im still only 4th behind those completeing fewer, but bigger ones.

 

[bhsup]

It's the -advmethods and big WU combo doing it. Some of those big honking WUs can be worth 600, but talk about resource needs!

 

[IglooDame]

I've got a couple Celeron-400s lying around the office that I'm going to fire up and run this on, ought to be interesting to see how long each of them take for a WU versus my 3GHz office workstation.

 

[ironduck]

Finished my first - working on a 12500 frame one now