In the GPU2 guide, the last sentence under AMD/ATI at the top is "Also use the -forcegpu ati_r700 switch until 5xxx hardware is auto-detected in later FAH clients. Fixed in v6.30 and above." GPU3 is 6.31 for console and 6.32 for systray. The ONLY benefit for ATi users in GPU3 is an updated internal hardware list. It should run on the 5xxx series cards without extra flags.

The second one has quick links for the client downloads and pretty good installation guides for someone not already familiar with the GPU clients.

Did you use the drop in? There are people running SMP 6.30 without MPI after doing a clean install. Deino and MPICH are two methods for communication between the cores. A3 is thread-based, so the cores don't have to talk to eacbh other.

In another place it says that running GPU3 on ATI is not adviced. They basically say, don't do it, support is coming.

I dropped the executable and removed the mpi dll's and disabled the service. It started running even without the service, but at the very beginning it complained about not finding the service. So, I guess it does not need it to run, but the check is still there. Or should I not be seeing the warning?

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=14671&p=144510#p144510

Ok, technically it does still use all the cores even with this error

So, I'll just ignore the error...

It's running project 6040 - started where the old one left off. And now the project has a TPF of 14 minutes of so.. <_<

There is the advantage of updated hardware detection in GPU3. Lots of people are running it and no one has mentioned bugs. It also supports the r800 gpu while GPU2 only supoported to r700.

You originally intalled the MPICH SMP client, so even with the new executable it looks for MPI. It will work without it, but it still looks for it. Save queue.dat, client.cfg, and the work folder. Delete the rest and uninstall the MPICH service. Reinstall the new executable, drop the folder and files back in and it should run without looking for that service. Just a guess, but I'd put money on it.

Ok, well, I pruned the folder from the other files, installed it as a service and now there are no error messages in the log. I'll need to upgrade the other computers if this any good. Maybe the GPU3 also agrees to run on the laptop this time.

Oh hey yeah, looks like you've all noticed, but I started folding again. Nothing too fancy hardware-wise, but I've been having it run at home while I'm at work lately.

#125! :celebration:

There seems to be, or has been, a problem with the servers for NV GPU WUs. If you run nVidia, check your clients, and restart them if they're stalled. Some of mine were idle for over 2 hours before I saw a post about it on the folding forum. They grabbed new work right away.

Milestones
Shanater 200,000 08-08-10
Paceline 175,000 08-07-10
Oranos 8,000 08-07-10
Chaul 2,500,000 08-03-10
FishyFLCL 1,500 08-01-10

Cecilff2 gets a prize for coming back to the fold. :cookie:

No new members. :stare:

Fold on! :goodjob:

We did slip back to #126 early in the week. At our current rate, it looks like we'll be bouncing around in this area for the next 4 months. Hopefully we had more people stop folding for heat reasons than other teams did.

Milestones
Pjstaab 70,000 08-14-10
Floating_Jet 80,000 08-13-10
Cecilff2 15,000 08-11-10
Oranos 9,000 08-11-10
Shanater 200,000 08-08-10

Again, no new members.

Fold on! :goodjob:

We're still at 126. It looks like we'll move up in 2, 3, 5, and 8 weeks, then slip a couple spots.

I'm heading out of town again, so my points will slip a little when I set my machines to safe mode to run unattended for a while.

Milestones
Oranos 10,000 08-22-10
PseronWyrd 150,000 08-21-10
uncle_fuzzy 40,000,000 08-19-10

No new members.

Fold on! :goodjob:

Hell bloody yeah! Sounds good. I might get a new system up and running, but I'll see how that works out. It'll run SMP, but not the whole day. So maybe, maybe not...

:brokencomputer: Well, I got home last night and found 2 machines down. One (Q6600@3.4, GTX260/216, 8800GTS512) had rebooted for some reason, but I had it up and folding before I went to bed. It was idle for a day and a half. The other (Q6600@2.4, 2X 8800GTS512) managed to trash some file XP needed to boot. After 3 tries with a repair install that wouldn't connect to my network, or let me activate it, I just moved all my clients and shortcuts to D: and started a reformat and full install. That one should be folding again in about 6-8 hours (lots of updates and driver tweaking).

We are still at 126, and shouldn't move up until after next week's post.

Milestones
Galahaut 200,000 08-29-10
Floating_Jet 90,000 08-27-10
Cecilff2 17,500 08-25-10
Oranos 10,000 08-22-10

No new members.

Fold on! :goodjob:

OK, back to the broken computer.

Some malware somehow got into the main rig, so I just shut it down while figuring out what to do with it. It can still run FAH without problems, but without explorer.exe it's kinda.. non-monitorable (no desktop, nor start menu). Funny, just because explorer refuses to run, all I can do with it, is to start up task manager with ctrl-alt-del and run apps through that. I bet it could still even run Fallout 3 like that, but meh..

pr0n will do that to a computer.

Sprint finally got around to imposing a 5GB limit on my wireless card. That kinda svcks for folding, since I use 16GB last month, and I already have over 4GB just a week into the current cycle. I just spent a few hours checking other services in my area, and we finally have our local WiMax system running. I signed up for it- unlimited data, up to 6M download and 1M upload, and $15 less than I've been paying Sprint. I might have to shut down folding until I get the new system running in 2-3 days. I'll be watching my Sprint usage like a hawk to keep down the overage charges. The extra 10GB I need times $0.05 per meg comes to $500, doesn't it? They also have some kind of roaming charge for over 300MB. I guess they don't want to keep customers.

Sprint=

Edited before posting- I'm putting -oneunit on everything due to finish in under a day. That's only gonna leave the bigadv and a cpu client. Sorry guys, no points from me until I get the new service. I hope the faster ul/dl speeds will let me make up for it, soon.

Edit after posting- The payment from a couple days ago finally posted to my account and my current usage dropped from 4.5GB to 77MB, so I'll carefully restart some of the clients and see what the numbers do.

Edit again- The site is as screwed as their plans. Now it's back above 4.5GB, so the oneunit flags are back on most of the clients.

I'm shut down for the next 24 hours.

It's now up to 5,224,xxx. The modem for my new system should be waiting for me when I get home from work.

I actually turned off 3 boxes for the first time in years, and the gateway machine goes down when I'm done with this. The only thing that will run is the i7, and the bigadv it has won't be finished for 25 hours. This really svcks. :brokencomputer:

Since the computers weren't doing anything else, I actually installed Oblivion on a Q9550, Vista 64 and played it at 1280x1024, 8X AA on a GTX 460. Nice view!

Bye 'til tomorrow night. :wavey:

OK, got my new service/modem today, but I'm having trouble getting everything networked, again. I couldn't get the wireless router working right, so I've got the 3 highest PPD machines wired in. I'll try to get the other 2 up this week. The system ain't pretty, but at least I'm folding.

Happy to say I'm folding again, albeit not at 100%. Not running a GPU client at this point, only an SMP. I managed to convince my parents to let me buy an air conditioner. Electricity bill was $350 last month... ugh.

Well, it took a new wireless router and several hours of additional dinking around, but I once more have a network that all of my machines are able to connect to and can fold full blast on everything I own. I think I have either a cpu or mobo going out, because the Q9550 is unable to feed 3 GTX460's. When I first installed the 460s, I had slowdowns on all clients- GPU and SMP. I found that leaving a half core free for each GPU worked, so I ran 3 GPU clients and -smp 2. When I got home from the out of town trip, that was no longer true. After the stoppage to change ISP, I worked on it a bit, but I can't fully feed the GPUs, even with no type of client running on the cpu. The 460s are running at 84-96% gpu usage and the Q9550 can no longer run Stresscpu2 without crashing. I'll have a few slowdowns this week while I move gpus around to try to max out the hardware. Luckily, the 460 is low powered, because the PSUs on the older quads will require using adapters to power the cards. All the PSUs are 600W+, but they only have 2 PCIE plugs.

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Still patiently holding #126 and future movement will be slow- in either direction.

Milestones
WTFimLEET 150,000 09-03-10
Dragon32 700,000 08-30-10
Galahaut 200,000 08-29-10

No new members.

Fold on! :goodjob:

No.. turns out it was an alpha demo of some racing game. Not exactly the demo at all, that was clean, but some of the ads or something running on one of the free download hosts that service the file, were infected. So, I must have clicked on just the bad mirror with AdBlock disabled on Google Chrome. (There are some legit pages that don't load at all with AdBlock enabled...) I have since switched back to Firefox and always keep AdBlock enabled.

I think we should soon reach #124.. currently at #125.

As noted, we hit #125, for the third time, a few days ago, and should move up to 124 later today.

Milestones
Striken7 15,000 09-10-10
Floating_Jet 100,000 09-05-10

Still no new members.

Fold on! :goodjob:

We are at #124 and due to bounce up and down a bit over the next few months. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, winter is coming and we hope to get a couple of our workhorses back when the snow flies Claiming that your folding machine is a space heater is a wonderful thing. It's also true. I only turned my heat on for a few days last winter (3 quads and 7 gpus in the bedroom kept it above 65F most of the time).

Milestones :celebration:
Paceline 200,000 09-18-10
Cecilff2 20,000 09-16-10
Oranos 12,500 09-13-10

Still no new members.

Fold on! :goodjob:

Well, I got a very late start on the post this week, but it looks like it didn't really matter.

We are still at #124.

We have absolutely no milestones this week.

No new members.

Fold on? :goodjob:

I've got my hexa and my gtx 460 chugging away now.

Nice point bump the past couple days. At your current rate, you'll blow away your previous high month (Feb 2010, 25,439). That's only 5-6 days based on the past 2 days totals. :cookie:

We moved up to #123. I'm hoping to see #120 before the end of the year.

Milestones
Liono6959 250 10-03-10
A_Flamer 750 10-02-10
Pjstaab 90,000 10-02-10
Chaul 3,000,000 10-02-10
Floating_Jet 125,000 10-01-10
uncle_fuzzy 45,000,000 10-01-10

2 new members!!!
Liono6959 10-02-10
A_Flamer 09-28-10
:cookie: :cookie: :cookie: :cookie:

Fold on! :goodjob:

Except now FAH is telling me my gpu has been doing bad folds or something so it's taking 24 hours off.

1- How much, if any, overclock do you have on the 460?
2- Are you using the new v6.3x client (required for the Fermis)?
3- Are you receiving the proper core 15 WUs?
4- Have you tried adding the -forcegpu nvidia_fermi flag?
5- Are you trying to play games or stream video while folding?
6- Are you running the 258.96 drivers?

The new client (6.31 console, 6.32 systray) is supposed to ID your card and only get the right WUs for your gpu. Sometimes it doesn't work quite right, and you need the forcegpu flag. The Fermi can only run the core 15 Fermi WUs.

If you have the right client and are getting the right WUs, did it fail on the same WU 5 times? If so, the WU may be bad. There have been a few. You can delete the work folder and queue.dat file and start it again to see if you can get a different WU.

A stock, or factory OC, 460 will do over 9K PPD, and a hex, depending on speed, should do around 6K. We'd love to see you cranking out 15,000 PPD! :flamethrower: