Getting started

iviv · 4 May 2008 at 18:38

Heya, just started folding for OcUK, and moved from running the GUI client to two colsole clients, and it all seems ot be going well. But In the thread I posted in to say hi, I was told that for my E6600, it would be better if I used the WinSMP client. I checked on the F@H download page, and can only see SMP clients for Linux and OSX. Can someone point me towards the windows one, and how do I set it up? Thanks!

iviv · 4 May 2008 at 19:56

Thanks, setting it all up now. Do I need to set it up twice as well, or is it dual core ready already?

Edit: I'm doing something wrong, as its starting in a window, not being hidden

Start.bat:

Code:

start cmdow.exe /RUN smp.bat

smp.bat:

Code:

@echo off
echo Starting FAH for the first time
echo -------------------------------
echo.
"C:\folding\fah.exe" -oneunit -verbosity 9 -local
:restart
echo.
echo Restarting FAH
echo -------------------------------
echo.
"C:\folding\fah.exe" -oneunit -verbosity 9 -local
goto restart

iviv · 4 May 2008 at 22:31

Well, the site I was linked to reccomended the use of that smp.bat file to prevent it crashing, or something.
Either way, that WinBoss program has done the job very nicely. Thanks.

iviv · 5 May 2008 at 01:54

Managed to get from 1200 PPD to 400 by spending the last couple of hours playing Neverwinter Nights 2. ETA sometime on the 9th

iviv · 5 May 2008 at 11:59

8pm on the 7th. But now it had the chance to use 100% CPU overnight, its looking at 3pm tomorrow, 975PPD. Huzzah.

iviv · 5 May 2008 at 21:33

Single client, CPU is only stock (2.4Ghz). I've gott a thread in the OC forum, but I bluescreen if I try and change the clock speed :/

iviv · 6 May 2008 at 15:53

Thanks for your help. Going back to folding, to run the F@H at startup, I'm just coing have to stick a shortcut to the bat file in the startup folder, aren't I? Also, when I started it up today once I'd finished my clocking, its been giving me a lot of text/errors it hadn't before.
www.blindrage.co.uk/iviv/errors.txt

Errors start from: Opening Log file [May 6 14:40:27]

Edit: Oh **** it. its deleded my 91% done WU and started on another x_x

iviv · 6 May 2008 at 16:16

Better late than never

1% done, looking forward to seeing what my new PPD is. Should be a bit more than the 1000 I had before the OC.

iviv · 6 May 2008 at 21:55

It went for one hour fine, tried to push it further, failed, and now its back folding on the same config that went 1 hour fine. Huzzah