New to folding at home

[SkinToxicated]

didnt need the heating on in my room yesterday evening. a 920@4Gz, Gtx570 and a GTX275 all reving their their hearts out

 

[dipzy]

i think i also need to do the -smp flag thingy, will check and report back

 

[yuri04]

EDIT: Oh, and get a PASSKEY and add it to the Tracker. Then enable Advmethods on the SMP/CPU Client for the first 10 work units. Once they've completed successfully and on time, disable Advmethods and enabled BigAdv instead.

Kup a small question, maybe you know something I don't..

but why would he select the -advmethods flag?

 

[hmmblah]

Kup a small question, maybe you know something I don't..

but why would he select the -advmethods flag?

advmethods fold faster than bigadv units so you can get to 10 much quicker and start getting the bonus on bigadv units.

 

[yuri04]

Ah yes that's true, but there is no speed difference with the regular -smp flag. The only thing -advmethods gives you is WU's which aren't completely tested, see it as a public beta trial.

Now I've got no clue on how the tracker works, as I manually configure all of my clients. So if there only is a choice between -advmethods and -bigadv then I get it, otherwise I don't really see the point, as the regular -smp should be just as fast.

 

[kup]

I always thought the -advmethods flag added the bonus points based WU to the SMP client, whilst the internal configuration setting 'advmethods' allows beta/untested WU?

 

[riotcity76]

I always thought the -advmethods flag added the bonus points based WU to the SMP client, whilst the internal configuration setting 'advmethods' allows beta/untested WU?

I don't think this is the case because when testing Goliath I ran only the flags -smp -verbosity 9 and still received the bonus points.

 

[kup]

Ahh ok. My bad.

lol

 

[dipzy]

-verbosity 9, what does that do?

 

[riotcity76]

-verbosity 9, what does that do?

It just create a more verbose log file. You can set the verbosity to levels 1-9, 9 being the highest. I don't really use it, but it can be useful in troubleshooting if you are ever having problems with the client.

 

[stevehat1]

OK my .02$.............. generally -advmethods does nothing but get you WU's that the public do not get and this applies to SMP and GPU. If there are WU's in -advmethods that you want to receive then use that tag, you are generally better off to not use that tag.

I always use -verbosity 9 in my manually configured console clients, no GPU Tracker for me

 

[dipzy]

Iv'e done 7 WU on my rig and 4 on the PS3. I see that you need to do atleast 10 WU to get bonus points. Are the WU from the ps3 included or do i still need to do 3 more on my pc?

 

[yuri04]

No,

only the WUs which have a QRB are counted towards getting the bonus.

so unfortunatly you will still have to do 3 on your rig.

 

[dipzy]

Ok so i have done 10 WU on my pc, how do i know im getting bonus points?

 

[SieB]

You will automatically star getting them and instead of 500 odd points per WU you will start getting a few thousand points per WU

 

[dipzy]

You will automatically star getting them and instead of 500 odd points per WU you will start getting a few thousand points per WU

its showing as 11 WU, 10 completed successfully and 1 failed. I think it will happen when i get the next one done

 

[stevehat1]

its showing as 11 WU, 10 completed successfully and 1 failed. I think it will happen when i get the next one done

Just a reminder.....you must also maintain a 80% successful return ratio to qualify for/maintain bonus point status

 

[dipzy]

Just a reminder.....you must also maintain a 80% successful return ratio to qualify for/maintain bonus point status

I have now done a total of 11 successful WU and 1 failed. Sucessful Units is 91.7% which is more than 80% but my points for the current project are only 585.

I don't think im getting bonus points, its still the same as before. What do i do?

 

[dipzy]

^^^^Any ideas any?

 

[stevehat1]

^^^^Any ideas any?

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