F@H for a newb

[Izzoks]

Hello everyone at OC3D

My name is Izzoks first time poster, long time reader. Yesterday I finished my new gaming rig and I started reading up on folding etc. As a student nurse and a pretty hardcore gamer I am very interested in protein folding and would like some help getting setup. I have read the FAQ and I will be honest I am a tad lost.

- I currently have the folding program from http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download

- It is running in the background and the display looks like this: http://s902.photobucket.com/albums/ac226/Izzoks/?action=view&current=ProteinIhave.jpg&newest=1

- I was wondering how to get it to show this kind of display (I have an AMD card) : http://s902.photobucket.com/albums/ac226/Izzoks/?action=view&current=theUIIwant.jpg&newest=1

- I am also wondering how to make the F@H program use more of my GPU and CPU while my computer idle's or while I'm at work or the hospital etc.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated

PS: forgive my terrible grammar and spelling English is not my first language.

 

[Grizzly]

That other viewer is from the v7 beta client, also you need to raise the priority of the folding clients manually to allow it to use more resources.

 

[ahboyhan]

first of all. welcome to the house of awesome people!!..

i use FAH GPU Tracker to fold.. easy and simple apps to configure.

 

[Izzoks]

Alright I got this up and working but its not detecting my GPU, it tells me no compatible Nvidia GPU found (makes sence I have an AMD) how do I get it to work my GPU.

update: I have manually enabled on GPU0 an ATI6XXX. Not sure if I am doing this right

Update 2: k so now I have my cores running at 100% (all 4) and my GPU is running at like 95-98% according to MSI AB.

Update 3: its been about i,d say 10 minutes, my CPU has been going full tilt and I don,t even have 1% done yet, my GPU is 95-98% and I have 5% done (CPU is project 6068 and GPU is 5736). Are these normal speeds, is this slow. Anyone got a yard stick they could lend me to know how good / bad this is or is this normal.

Sorry for multiple edits I'm just nerding out about how cool this is.

 

[yuri04]

10 minutes? nah that's pretty normal, be sure to have one core/thread completely free for your ATI card, so it won't slow em both down.

Also be sure to make the GPU client a higher priority then the CPU/SMP client.

And last but not least, don't use the viewer. It is know to be a resourcehog, and quite buggy (although the v7 client has a rewrite so it could be better).

 

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