Folding FAQ

[Sweeney47]

worked out the 'using more cores' thing, by Skypy you mean skype? yeah I do, Sweeney_47

[Sleinous]

yeah thats what I meant ^^ You're using SMP now right? and GPU3?

[Mitchell]

Huh, when my new PC is here I think I might give this a go. I mean, I leave my PC on inactive quite a bit so it may as well be helping something out. I've read the site and stuff and still don't quite get it, but hell. If it's doing good then who cares?

[Sleinous]

Its a simulation basically, that helps scientists worldwide to get on with the next step of the research after our number crunching

[Nidanal]

I've heard about this but never got around to doing it. Downloading now. Is anyone here on a team? Want me to join?

[LFFPicard]

Can someone give me the real dummie guide to set this up.

I want to be able to run it maybe maxed out on cpu and gpu when not using my pc but easy to turn off when i want to use PC.
I tried to set it up on old PC but i think it lost my work block when i stopped it so i may have set it up wrong.

[Tom DWC]

Can someone give me the real dummie guide to set this up.

I had quite a bit of help with this at the start of the year. Sleinous recommended a handy application which makes the entire process far more straightforward - no need for the command line etc:

http://fahtracker.com/index.html

The setup guide on the website explains it better than I ever could.

You'll rake in the points with your rig (folding@home loves Intel & NVIDIA setups) and should be able to enable bigadv on the SMP client and the GPU3 client.

[LFFPicard]

Will check it out when I get home.

Need to set this up soon as my PC is unused 16hours a day, all that would be folding!

[Nemesis]

I completed my first wu last nite

FAHtracker is awesome... so easy to use

[MrShteeeve]

i tried that client and when i try and do any settings or anything it says 'cannot apply settings without FAH clients'