Setting up QMD problems

[Horatio]

Hey all, I joined the [H]orde fairly recently, did some posting here

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=971823

and in there some people gave me advice to set up QMD's problem is every time I try to edit my cfg file Folding resets itself, including my user name and team number! with a 3.8 ghz P4 I'm getting sick of these piddly 50 pt units. I did manage to get it working long enough (through dumb luck) to pick up a 12,500 frame unit! I want more! *drools* Oh, and I'm currently running the graphical client... yes I know I should be running the console and all, but sometimes I find that Folding will lag up my computer when I'm playing games or such, and I find its noticably more annoying to kill a service... >.<

 

[ICE_9]

I use the console version in windowed mode. It will come up with a command box and the program will run. Shutting down and starting up a service was annoying so the move to this allowed for easy shutdown and startup with a desktop icon. I also liked using the console setup because it was easy to change the config file. Straight forward, no hard questions, no checkboxes.

As far as the gaming, I am only running one client now. No need for it to fight with the game for RAM or too much processor time. Hyperthreading has definately helped me run a game like WoW and fold QMDs at the same time.

 

[Oldbenwa]

but sometimes I find that Folding will lag up my computer when I'm playing games or such, and I find its noticably more annoying to kill a service... >.<

There are some batch files listed in the sticky that allow for easy start/stopping of the service.

2. For consoles installed as a service (XP Only):

You have to have the complete service name as reported by Windows, you can find that in the Services management console, and is dependent on the path where you placed your console, mine is at C:\Program Files\F@H, so my bats are as such:

start.bat
net start "FAH@C:+Program Files+F@H+FAH502-Console.exe"


stop.bat
net stop "FAH@C:+Program Files+F@H+FAH502-Console.exe"

Oldbenwa

 

[D3v01D]

I'm running two console clients 24 / 7 on my X2 and I have yet to notice any slow-downs or system lag, even in system-intensive FPS games.
I just love this thing

P.S. A 12,500 frame unit?? I thought they only went as high as 400 frames?

 

[chileman]

I'm running two console clients 24 / 7 on my X2 and I have yet to notice any slow-downs or system lag, even in system-intensive FPS games.
I just love this thing

P.S. A 12,500 frame unit?? I thought they only went as high as 400 frames?

Frames don't mean anything, Steps are what matter. Most WUs are devided into 100 steps (except tinkers if I remember correctly).

Fold on people! For tuxedoedShrimp

 

[Horatio]

Well I'll finish off the unit I'm working on right now, and I'll try running this as a service, see if I can get some QMD's

 

[SpoogeMonkey]

yes I know I should be running the console and all, but sometimes I find that Folding will lag up my computer when I'm playing games or such

I've left f@h on 24/7 for 2 1/2yrs, and I game alot. I don't notice any lag at all. My roomate used to shut down the console client, because "it totally lagged him out!" So I installed as a service, he just figured folding was shut down, and proceeded to frag it up. After 2-3 hrs of solid gaming 1 night, I broke the news to him that f@h was running for over 2weeks in the background

 

[BillR]

Most of the time you can knock out 600 points worth of 50 pointers faster then you can do a single 600 point work unit.

Completed work units are what Stanford needs, all the projects are important.

The console version is much more efficient but I never run it as a service, even at my advanced age double clicking an icon is still within my ability

 

[Bollocks]

problem is every time I try to edit my cfg file Folding resets itself, including my user name and team number!

Folding Tip # 134: Only use Notepad to edit your config, Wordpad corrupts the formatting and resets the fields to default values.

 

[SmokeRngs]

Folding Tip # 134: Only use Notepad to edit your config, Wordpad corrupts the formatting and resets the fields to default values.

Folding Tip # 135: Ignore Folding Tip # 134. Just run the F@H executable with the -configonly flag and change the options that way.

 

[Mohonri]

Folding Tip # 135: Ignore Folding Tip # 134. Just run the F@H executable with the -configonly flag and change the options that way.

QFT. I've been caught on this several times. It kinda ruins your day when you find out that you lost several 600-pointers because the client reset your configuration because you edited the config file manually.

 

[ChelseaOilman]

The best advice is to never edit the client.cfg file manually. If your not 100% sure your client.cfg file is ok, quit the GUI client from the system tray menu, then delete the client.cfg file. The next time you restart the GUI client a new client.cfg file will be created.

To get QMD WUs you need to have an Intel CPU and 512MB of memory. To configure the GUI client to get QMD WUs you have to do 2 things. First, open the GUI client configuration menu, go to the Connection tab and put a check in the box for "Allow receipt of work assignments and return of results greater than 5MB in size". Second, you have to add the -advmethods flag to the shortcut that starts the GUI client. By default the GUI clients shortcut is installed in Start>All Programs>Startup. Go there and right click on the shortcut, choose Properties from the popup menu. Now add a space and -advmethods to the very end of whatever is already in the Target box. You may want to add another space and -forceasm to the end of that while your there. If your successful, when you restart the client you will see this in the log.

Launch directory: C:\Program Files\Folding@Home
Arguments: -advmethods -forceasm

Unless there's a problem at stanford you should get only QMD WUs as long as they're issuing them.

If you decide to do QMD WUs I would advise you not to run a second client on your P4 HT CPU, it will bog your computer down severely and gain you nothing.

ChelseaOilman

 

[Mohonri]

^^^ Keep in mind that this excellent advice from CO is for the Graphical client, not the console. You'll still want the -forceasm and -advmethods flags, but if you're running the console, you'll have to run it with the -configonly flag to allow big packets.