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by BobWilliams757
Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:27 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Points Drop
Replies: 16
Views: 8395

Re: Points Drop

It seems like your work unit count is high for the GPU, but that might just be the freak luck of the assignment server and your card species. It might be worth checking out your performance vs the average for those with the same GPU on https://folding.lar.systems/ If you use the drop down for "...
by BobWilliams757
Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:09 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Points Drop
Replies: 16
Views: 8395

Re: Points Drop

There are a number of things which can impact points, but the luck of the assignment server alone can be a big factor at times. If you frequently use the system for other things that has impact as well. Looking at logs will tell you if you have had any errors that caused folding to restart from a ch...
by BobWilliams757
Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:03 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Curious different PPD Linux v. Windows 11
Replies: 6
Views: 7652

Re: Curious different PPD Linux v. Windows 11

I have no help to offer, but if the differences were that excessive I would think that nobody would want to run Win 11 at all for folding. Most feedback I've seen seems to indicate that it works just as well as Win 10.
by BobWilliams757
Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:49 am
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Seeking Clarification on Folding@Home Operations During Gaming Sessions
Replies: 2
Views: 8145

Re: Seeking Clarification on Folding@Home Operations During Gaming Sessions

You can get more specific answers if you let us know which version of the software you are using. There are small differences and in the case of 7.6.21 you have the web version as well as advanced control. But either way, you can pause a work unit without stopping all completed progress. Once you re...
by BobWilliams757
Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:32 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Why Fold? AI solves it.
Replies: 2
Views: 16982

Re: Why Fold? AI solves it.

From my understanding, no AI does NOT solve it. AI can and has been used to help locate potential areas of research, specific area and timestamps that might allow drug binding., and other such things. Only more advanced simulations can confirm or deny the specifics of what happens when proteins fold...
by BobWilliams757
Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:04 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Inconsitency on F@h stats pages
Replies: 6
Views: 16239

Re: Inconsitency on F@h stats pages

Interesting find, but I have no idea where the differences might lie. Individual vs all time rankings were only off by 1 work unit, and about 700K points between them. The strange thing is the individual showing the one extra work unit shows the lower overall points score. In my case I won't have to...
by BobWilliams757
Sat Dec 30, 2023 12:23 am
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: PPD differences in x8 vs x16 4.0 lanes on RTX4070 and higher?
Replies: 4
Views: 10764

Re: PPD differences in x8 vs x16 4.0 lanes on RTX4070 and higher?

I would imagine a deep dive would show that CPU clocks/architecture/memory speeds/drive speeds/etc/etc all contribute to overall folding performance, even with slower GPU's. The newer really fast GPU's are simply fast enough to make the strengths and weaknesses more obvious, since the numbers are no...
by BobWilliams757
Thu Dec 14, 2023 2:15 am
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Stop after current WU completes?
Replies: 5
Views: 17269

Re: Stop after current WU completes?

With v8, you click the pause button and there will be a pop up to either pause now or finish then pause. And here I was so sure it was the other button. That's what happens when I reverted back to 7.5.21! Good catch. And good note on the "not sticky" point as well. I personally think they...
by BobWilliams757
Wed Dec 13, 2023 11:22 pm
Forum: V7.6.x Public Release Windows/Linux/MacOS X
Topic: What is the best Nvidia video card to get to fold the fastest?
Replies: 22
Views: 73422

Re: What is the best Nvidia video card to get to fold the fastest?

Hi. When you change gpu options, where are the settings saved to, the registry? or a file? Thanks. I have no idea, but it might write within the driver settings. That is assuming you are asking in regards to nvidia -smi. But I'm not even sure if that would take place at all unless you used the pers...
by BobWilliams757
Tue Dec 12, 2023 5:15 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Stop after current WU completes?
Replies: 5
Views: 17269

Re: Stop after current WU completes?

If you are using the beta version 8, click on the "start folding" button. It won't give you options to pause immediately or finish the current work in it and then pause.

If you are using version 7.6.21 then you right click on the appropriate slot (s) and select finish.
by BobWilliams757
Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:35 am
Forum: V8.1.xx Open Beta
Topic: clGetPlatformIDs() returned -1001
Replies: 19
Views: 82185

Re: clGetPlatformIDs() returned -1001

Interesting find bikeaddict. I don't have the answer to your question, but it looks like the Gen following the one you looked up processed and the project continued forward, so possibly the first valid return that is made moves things along. It's very interesting that it didn't reassign to another u...
by BobWilliams757
Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:12 am
Forum: V7.6.x Public Release Windows/Linux/MacOS X
Topic: What is the best Nvidia video card to get to fold the fastest?
Replies: 22
Views: 73422

Re: What is the best Nvidia video card to get to fold the fastest?

Hi there. Is there another application that does what MSI afterburner does? I use a screen reader and when I start up the application, I can't use it because the screen is rendered in a way that screen readers can't make sense of. out of interest, the Screen reader I use is free and open source, an...
by BobWilliams757
Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:58 pm
Forum: V7.6.x Public Release Windows/Linux/MacOS X
Topic: What is the best Nvidia video card to get to fold the fastest?
Replies: 22
Views: 73422

Re: What is the best Nvidia video card to get to fold the fastest?

whocrazy wrote: Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:44 pm Hi. does EVGA Precision X1 run on windows 10?
Yes, it does.
by BobWilliams757
Sun Dec 10, 2023 1:36 am
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Team concept
Replies: 4
Views: 9601

Re: Team concept

Someone who has been around longer might know the original idea behind the teams, I'm not really well informed on it. But it's a way to form groups of folders for various reasons. To show support, compete, maybe a family or company, etc and show how many people are involved in that particular group ...
by BobWilliams757
Sat Dec 09, 2023 3:37 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Brief Overview Of F@h Beta Team Membership
Replies: 27
Views: 136832

Re: Brief Overview Of F@h Beta Team Membership

Thanks toTOW.

As for Bruce, I hope he is well. The last time I had checked it had been a long time since he had logged in.