*** F@H Tech Assistance Thread ***

[garyinhere]

I know this is a stupid question... i just set up my 5870 to fold. How do i pause the work to play games lol?!?

 

[thebluebumblebee]

ctrl-c stops the console client client

 

[KingPing]

If the game is not to demanding, like COD4, WoT, Trackmania, Killingfloor, i play while i fold in my 5850, Folding shouldn't be stoped to play silly games

 

[DaMulta]

My son plays the crap out of lego starwars, and I don't even see a hit point lose on it.

Todays down time....yes I'm going to see a hit lol....

Damn thing says there is no work to be done today...yet I did switch out slots on cards beats me.....

Gave nasty a log in number ROFL....I'm in need of the Dr

 

[Athlon2K15]

does -advmethods apply to GPU3 clients for fermi?

 

[mstenholm]

does -advmethods apply to GPU3 clients for fermi?

No, thats for SMP (CPU) folding.

 

[bogmali]

does -advmethods apply to GPU3 clients for fermi?

Not needed for GPU3......No benefit at all

 

[DaMulta]

How do I get it to work off different GPUs?

I thought it was done with the command where you start it?

Is it done when you install it?????

It appears to be working on the same thing, which leads me to believe it's on the same gpu.

 

[Chicken Patty]

I believe it's working on both. Check load or temps on each card.

 

[DaMulta]

Why is it working on thhhe same project? No ppd for the 2ed card....

Does anyone want to log in and take a look????

 

[DaMulta]

GPU-Z is reporting full load on both cores....I don't get it lol

 

[theonedub]

There are times where you get similar WUs on both cards. You will get a PPD value when the WU reaches 3% The only thing you need to change during initial setup with more than 1 card is the Machine ID. If you forgot to change it you can rerun the setup by adding flag -configonly

 

[DaMulta]

There are times where you get similar WUs on both cards. You will get a PPD value when the WU reaches 3%

hmmm well it's way past 3. I just don't know why it's reporting same WU.......with no ETA

I'll give it a bit to see if anything changes.

When I installed the client again....I didn't do all the fancy stuff Nasty entered into it.....

Then I pointed thhe program that watches it to the folder I extracted it too.

 

[garyinhere]

I just installed the gpu client on my gt240... the temps and loads look low... i can't tell if it is doing any work because the viewer is different than my ati cards that show the % of work completed?

 

[theonedub]

Make sure you changed the machine IDs or you will probably get EUEs.

 

[theonedub]

I just installed the gpu client on my gt240... the temps and loads look low... i can't tell if it is doing any work because the viewer is different than my ati cards that show the % of work completed?
http://img.techpowerup.org/100923/Capture2.png

Looks like the card is running 2D clocks. Why not try the Console client instead of the Graphic one?

 

[DaMulta]

right click refresh....

Ok there it is

Now to up default clock speeds a bit

 

[DaMulta]

Make sure you changed the machine IDs or you will probably get EUEs.

how do I do that?

 

[garyinhere]

Looks like the card is running 2D clocks. Why not try the Console client instead of the Graphic one?

do i need to uninstall the client on their and use the same client as the ati's?

 

[DaMulta]

OK i went in the folder and edited client.cfg to machine id 1 instead of 2

Maybe that fixed it

 

[DaMulta]

nope HFM is still reporting me on the same machine ID

 

[theonedub]

do i need to uninstall the client on their and use the same client as the ati's?

I just use this: http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/Folding@home-Win32-GPU-systray-623.msi

nope HFM is still reporting me on the same machine ID

I noted how to change the machine ID in one of my earlier posts (edited). You may want to completely shut down the two clients and HFM, then reload them to make sure it picks up any changes.

 

[garyinhere]

I just use this: http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...ystray-623.msi

that did the trick thank you!

 

[DaMulta]

Ok so I did the flag reinstall and picked another machine ID. Yet it's still telling me they are the same....

Restarting windows

HFM reports i'm on the same client still, and it didn't dump what it's working on...maybe that's it?

YET does windows are reporting me to be in different clients IDK after it wishes what it's working on it will fix itself perhaps?

 

[msgclb]

Stanford does send out the same WU to different clients to verify the accuracy of the data. This has happened to me. I'd say monitor the progress to make sure it doesn't stall.

DaMulta, I noticed you have the -advmethods flag with your GPUs. As far as I know this is used with the SMP (CPU) client. I don't know if shutting down a client and removing the flag would cause the loss of that WU so I'd suggest you remove the flag and restart the client when this WU is complete. If I'm totally wet on this then maybe someone else will reply.

Windows GPU2/GPU3 Client Installation Guides

I've never had any luck with the systray version so I don't use it.

For Machine IDs for GPUs I use 2, 3, etc.
For the CPU use 1.

I never put these clients in my 'Program Files' folder but my 'Users' folder as you did.