Folding rigs.

the_syco

Erm, how do I increase the F@H thing to a higher priority, or something?

Have a quad Q9550, and an ATI HD487, so would hope to do something that would increase the usage of the CPU, to maybe at least 80% or is that possible?

Or should I just run 4 of them at the same time? Oh, and how do I get more than one to run at the same time?

the_syco

OK... got it running 4 times on the console. Will look into getting the ATI GPU running it as well later. Running it on 80%, so I can still do other stuff.

Score is 9381, 63 WU's now, will check tomorrow to see if it has increased.

/edit
The processes are on 51%, 43%, 34%, and 48%, so will hopefully they'll be finished tomorrow, and then I'll check the points.
They're set at 80 (percent?) CPU, and 512MB RAM each.

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GTA4 still runs when the above is running. A slight bit jittery, but playable.

/edit 3
Two cores finished. Points now 9977, 66 WU's.

/edit 4
After experiencing problems when all cores @ 80% with F@H, Portal running in the background, formatting a TB HDD, and copying files at teh same time, going to leave it run at 10% each core. Have set it up with the console version, so nothing in the taskbar, and all 4 F@H programs as services detectable in the Task Manager. Machine is often left on, so it'll slowly do stuff.

zilog_jones

As I've said before, there's no real need to set FAH to anything less than 100% (unless you have heat issues) - it's set to run at the lowest priority, and Windows thread scheduling seems to do a decent job at not letting it interefere with higher priority processes (i.e. everything else in most cases). I've run benchmarks on games with FAH running at 100% compared to it not running at all and have seen no discernable difference in game performance - FAH performance is greatly decreased of course, usually only significant on one core though. Some games are known to have performance issues with FAH running, but this is only because they're buggy (GTA:SA comes to mind).

However, the FAH GPU client is detrimental to game performance in my experience. Maybe it's different for other cards/drivers but I seem to lose 10-30 fps running that in the background with my 8600GT.

I recently got a 8600GT (256MB GDDR3) - not much of an upgrade from my 7600GT, but it was cheap (€30 off a friend) and it has CUDA so I can finally run the GPU client. I have it overclocked to 690/1518/740 (core/shader/mem) and I'm getting about 1500 PPD from it. Don't run it 24/7 though (turn it off when playing games etc.) so in reality it's a lot less. The GPU client seems quite reliable these days - I haven't had any trouble with it yet.