Also, since my net is rather volatile (keeps disconnecting), I set the checkpoint rate to a little above 3 min..I hop it doesn't keep creating a new saved file every 3 min, and just overwrites the same file.

Yeah, it should overwrite. It won't just keep growing and growing if that's what you're worried about. It should save to the "work" folder wherever you installed it so you can check that if you want, but it shouldn't really get much bigger than 3-5 MB or so I think.

Also, I just finished my second WU (wow..lame), and now it says "Attempting to get work packet". It's been saying that for 8 hours. When I look at the display, it says,
Waiting for Core:
Step 879

Wtf is Step 879? Is it downloading the 879th frame or what?

I get that error message too when I reboot or if I lose power and get kicked off. Usually if I restart my computer, it fixes it.

Doesn't work for me...someone help me! :(

Try to right-click on the little icon and select Exit. This should shut it down completely. Then try to reinstall it. Let me know if this doesn't help. I sometimes have to do that. The suck part about it, is that it sometimes starts your work units over. :(

Nope..still doesn't work...I've only finished 2 WUs so far, but it doesn't record my second one...I guess it'll record it after I get a 3rd..which I'm not :(

EDIT: Oh well, it's working again :), but it didn't record my second WU :(

Folding@Home is pretty cool...
My wife (a geneticist) also told me about this Foldit game when I asked her about the stuff on this thread...

Folding meets gaming...neato concept imo
http://kotaku.com/388753/foldit-make...folding-a-game

I wanted to play the Foldit game but it wouldn't let me register... D:

I knew this program about 1 or 2 days after it first came out but it slipped my mind. Downloaded and installed, it really takes up a small amount of memory (11 - 13MB) but it's a bit hungry for CPU usage (always 50%+ on my system when the program is running). This is, overall, not a problem because the programs I have are quite lightweight. I'm happy to do this to help with the research and I've already spread it to my msn friends.

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It's cpu hungry, but it's always set to the lowest priority. It will dynamically change how much it uses depending on how much is free; anything else that needs cpu power gets it first so it shouldn't affect the performance of other apps you have running. F@H just uses whatever % is left unused at any given time.

Yea, I ran a few routine tasks that require a bit of CPU usage and can confirm what you said. The net result is that my CPU usage spikes to 100%. However, I don't see any significant performance drop. This should assure anyone who is wondering if their computing would be affected. Second to Pritcher, I'd answer No. You got nothing to worry about. ^^

Okay, I've just re-downloaded F@H, and it doesn't show my progress in the Display window? It just shows this fancy picture which I can grab and rotate at will. If I let my mouse hover over the icon in the system tray, though, it does show the progress. This normal? It wasn't like this with my previous client.

Also, do I have to keep my net connected whle this runs, or can I disconnect it, and only connect when it needs to upload/download i.e when it finishes a WU?

Bumpity-Bump. Someone help me with my Display?

I looked at my settings and can't find anything that you change to make it show. Have you tried doing an uninstall & reinstall? Since you just reinstalled it may be that the reinstall was not clean. Try that again and if that doesn't clear it try going to their forum site:

Folding Forum

I'm pretty sure that's just the way it is for the display in the new client. I don't see any options in there to change anything for the display either.

You can disconnect while it works. You might want to set it to ask before it attempts to use the network so you'll get a message letting you know it needs access so it can send/receive work. You can set that in the connections tab in the F@H control panel.

Guees who just joined the F@H? And I've got an 1.83 dual core. :tongue:

Awww pity...yeah okay thanks then.

I have the same thing here.

Anyways, guys, our team page has an old banner, we need to put the new mini-banner in there too.

Welcome into the fold. See what I did thar? Ahahaha, I kill me. :p

Not it. Ask Entropy, or whoever "Administrator" was on the first page. He actually created the official team, I don't really know anything about it. I assume making alterations would require some sort of password though.

my ps3 is always running F@H well when im not keelin peeps in resistance or tekken 5 DR ^_^

Wow.

I have a hypothetical question. If I was to change my team, would all my WUs and points go over, or only the stuff I fold after I enter their team?

I don't think it would make sense if credits transferred along with you.

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/awards/t...016&t=wus&bg=4

Can I hear a WOOT?

where do you get those from?

Photoshop.




Jk, the website generates them.

^ lol

I am so disappointed.... I know I been gone forever, but c'mon guys I expected at least a simple cure for cancer out of this thing...

LMAO actually last year (?) I randomly tried to install this folding@home thing again but I couldn't get it to fold or move for some reason LOL

Edit: Actually I'm surprised there are only 130k computers in the world folding this thing. Surely I thought something like this would spark more interest because it'll make people feel like they are doing something good for the world.

Edit2: i'm back on the team now =D

I stopped because I'm running purely off laptops for now, and this programs saps battery quite easily. Once I get a desktop I hope to start up again.

We're getting there, maybe :P
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...ijc.22810/epdf

I was being a little bit of a prick about it for the funsies, but I actually have an HTPC that mostly doesn't do shit... Is this team number still active?

Either way I'm folding for it again. WTH can't hurt right?

Yes team still exists, but I had to uninstall it, it made my fans really really loud.

Well I wouldn't put on my main pc or anything...

Also... fans? Did you get big? Some kinda supastar now?

:uhoh:Midway through typing that I realized what you meant and laughed out loud. I thought maybe you became a twitch streamer or some such for a minute there..

I will be one day so you wait for that.

Lolll she wishes.











I actually think Blahs could get internet famous if she worked for it.

And by internet famous, I don't actually mean internet famous famous but like... LoL YouTube internet famous.