I'm not being accusing I just wondered why 15 of the 39 people in the league are no longer actively folding? If there's a techie reason I'd like to know. I'm aware I have to shut down folding on this PC if I want to play games, but generally having it working has not affected the PC's speed in any way.

If its just a simple thing that its been forgotten to boot up when the PC is switched on, add it to the startup items. Its what I ended up doing too.

I'm still plodding on at work.

Precisely the reaons you mentioned Jason.

I don['t just play games on this machine though.

I do web design, e-learning content development, e-mail and research via web and topic specific research resources.

Plus iTunes, or other audio related work (sound edits/recording)

I found my system encountering frequent lock-ups while running the folding application, no matter what i did, even when I was only doing one or two of the usual tasks I do.

System is 1.4Ghz, 1GB RAM, blah blah blah.

I can't justify buying a system just for folding.

WHile the greater good of humanity is indeed a worthy effort, when it routinely consumed very resource I had and then proceeds to make me wait ten minutes before being able to do anything, it's not something I'm going to tolerate.

Sorry.

I dropped out a while back because of problems with my PC playing up.

Still going here, I have pressganged my MediaCenter 2005 PC into action now. Its a P4 3.0GHZ with 2GB ram and performance seems unaffected, in that it can still record 2 tv programs at the same time whilst playing back fullscreen video at 1920x1080 into my 42" plasma TV connected via DVI. I am using the Console client installed as a service on all my installs now because its more stable and easier to hide as it has no icon next to the clock.

Still going here, although as the process only runs during CPU idle time, I'm not doing as well as when I was on holiday and none of my PC's were in use Still plodding along though

Chris

Still going here, I have pressganged my MediaCenter 2005 PC into action now. Its a P4 3.0GHZ with 2GB ram and performance seems unaffected, in that it can still record 2 tv programs at the same time whilst playing back fullscreen video at 1920x1080 into my 42" plasma TV connected via DVI. I am using the Console client installed as a service on all my installs now because its more stable and easier to hide as it has no icon next to the clock.

No wonder i cant catch you then

Definitely always, always use the service based installer if you can as it's way better from a stability perspective, and it doesn't mess up any DirectX or OpenGL stuff (my pet hate about the GUI client is that it uses OpenGL).

FAH will show any instabilities up due to the way it works - i.e. lots of heat in your CPU, so if your PSU/memory/CPU cooling aren't quite up to it you'll find out.

Mine stopped working after a mammoth folding session. I've tried deleting the program and re-installing it a number of times now to no gain. I went on their problem solving website but its too technical for the likes of me, so I've given up tryiing to fix it now.

Mine stopped working after a mammoth folding session. I've tried deleting the program and re-installing it a number of times now to no gain. I went on their problem solving website but its too technical for the likes of me, so I've given up tryiing to fix it now.

mines still going, very nearly finished (well its only 2230/2500) so hopefully we shoudl be shooting past people soon!

I'm halfway through my second big WU. I only seem to get 2500's.

Is there some sort of algorithm at the server end which decides what type of work unit you get, or is it random?

I'm asking because my two PCs have been working on a WU each for a week, then they both finished yesterday (Sunday) and scored 600 points each. That bumped me up three points in the team ratings.

If you look at the stats, some people seem to do lots of work units, but each one only gets a low score, while others get the same sort of score, but with fewer WUs.

How are the scores calculated?

How are the scores calculated?

I've been wondering if its a time related scoring system? But not too sure. I've had WU's get processed by my laptop in just 6 or 7 hours, and score 150ish for that, but likewise one that takes 36 hours is unlikely to score much higher.

I'd love to know the definitive HOW on this.

Each WU has a certain value. Some are higher than others based on their 'calculation time' pretty much, it is not always 100% fair in many opinions, but it tries to be.

You tend to get a little extra for big WUs and for those returned a little quicker, again guideline, not hard & fast rule.

I've been wondering if its a time related scoring system? But not too sure. I've had WU's get processed by my laptop in just 6 or 7 hours' date=' and score 150ish for that, but likewise one that takes 36 hours is unlikely to score much higher.

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I seem to be getting on average 290 per WU so far I'll keep an eye on it and let you know later on in the week

Each WU has a certain value. Some are higher than others based on their 'calculation time' pretty much' date=' it is not always 100% fair in many opinions, but it tries to be.

You tend to get a little extra for big WUs and for those returned a little quicker, again guideline, not hard & fast rule.[/quote']

Yup..

theres a option (on the cmd version anyway) to do big WUs.. take ages and use lots of memory (150mb) but are worth big money

i tend to split mine.. the xeons are all running big WUs:)

Well - the trouble is it really does seem to vary on "size" - One of my PCs is currently rattling through a 7500 WU.... :eek: Sounds a lot but its doing it going at around 20 seconds a frame, so won't be too long. Likewise, I had a 250 WU which took 15 MINUTES a frame and took longer.... Really seems to be lots of variables built in to every WU. :confused:

I'm still going but like I said I left to form a new team - defiantely for the greater good

I'm in as "Richard" on your list (Good to see I'm still 26th out of 39!)

The new team is FiatForum, http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=43318, is doing ok but still in it's infancy.

Since I stopped contributing to your effort I've done another 43 (as "Dr Pepper") so I'm very much still at it. Glad I've got a few more people folding though!

I'm still going... heading towards the end of my first 2500 wu.

There are three cores (or is that now four) - each has it's own properties which make it hard to work out the exact value/duration.

Rest assured though that each WU contributes a little