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Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: Dr Sadako on June 13, 2008, 07:10:37 PM
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37931/113/
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: delanvital on June 13, 2008, 07:48:39 PM
Cool :yahoo:
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: Carr0t on June 16, 2008, 12:42:45 PM
Ace! I wonder if there'll be a Linux client?
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: kregoron on June 21, 2008, 05:38:50 PM
the nVIDIA CUDA client is now available for download
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: kregoron on June 21, 2008, 06:38:21 PM
Just loaded the new GPU2 client.. folding the supervillin core @ around 1% pr 15 sec, i wonder how much that WU is worth, cant be much else the PPD is gonna be MAD ;)
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: Carr0t on June 24, 2008, 09:36:13 AM
Where's my Linux GPU client? :ranting2::sad:
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: Jamoe on June 24, 2008, 10:34:15 AM
from what I have read they don't have the beta client working for 64 bit OS. Is that right? I want to get my 8800 folding :)

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-NVIDIA#ntoc8

Quote32-bit Windows operating system, XP or newer (better Vista support coming soon); 64-bit Windows operating systems appear to currently be incompatible (We're working on this too.)
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: OldBloke on June 24, 2008, 10:50:25 AM
Quote from: Jamoe;235050from what I have read they don't have the beta client working for 64 bit OS. Is that right? I want to get my 8800 folding :)

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/FAQ-NVIDIA#ntoc8

It failed to work on my XP64 :(
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: BigFatCat on June 24, 2008, 11:57:30 AM
I tried the GPU2 client on my non-overclocked 8800GT.

It complained about my machine being unstable and didn't do diddly. I'm going to smack it with a shovel if some driver fiddling doesn't work.
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2008, 12:00:34 PM
Quote from: BigFatCat;235074I tried the GPU2 client on my non-overclocked 8800GT.

It complained about my machine being unstable and didn't do diddly. I'm going to smack it with a shovel if some driver fiddling doesn't work.
You need to get the proper drivers if you haven't already got them (version 177.35 I believe)
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: DuVeL on June 24, 2008, 12:10:21 PM
I think I'll give it a shot on my BFG VGA GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 320 MB. :flirty:
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: BigFatCat on June 24, 2008, 01:04:32 PM
Quote from: BlueBall;235078
Quote from: BigFatCat;235074some driver fiddling
You need to get the proper drivers if you haven't already got them (version 177.35 I believe)
Like I said...Yes, with the modded inf too, just in case, like.

Quote from: DuVeL;235087GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 320 MB
Nothing like retro hardware:narnar:
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: DuVeL on June 24, 2008, 01:13:01 PM
Quote from: BigFatCat;235110Nothing like retro hardware:narnar:

:sad: And I was one of the first with a 8800 card.
Ahwell, atleast CoD4 is really good playable on it...
No syrupwaffles for you next LAN :devil:
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: BigFatCat on June 24, 2008, 07:25:32 PM
I laugh at your syrupwaffles :sideways:

I saw them for sale somewhere recently... Arsebiscuits, it was Toronto airport!:sad:

Hmmm, maybe I will have to be nice now!:taz:

Oh, and my 8800GT is now running, FAHMon reckons it's worth 4000 ppd.
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: kregoron on June 25, 2008, 08:24:33 PM
Quote
Changes:


6.12 Beta 7...
  • Fixed nVidia FX/NVS detection
6.12 Beta 8...
  • Support cpu affinity by default, this is related to an nVidia problem and awaits core-side changes.
  • Fix saving of proxy settings.
  • Add additional parameters field in advanced preferences - no more shortcut editing!!!
  • UNSTABLE_MACHINE count reset after a correctly finished WU, for long-running systems
  • Open configuration dialog box when invalid settings detected
  • Changes to advanced configuration panel
This will NOT fix problems related to cores of course, like the viewer problems, nVidia desktop lag/lockups, etc.

Installation notes: You must uninstall the previous version before installing this version.
-b

Enjoy...

LINKYLINKY (http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/release/Folding@home-GPU-systray-612b8.msi)
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: BigFatCat on June 27, 2008, 07:08:48 PM
Running beta8 with a hacked .inf set of 177.41. It folds but will it play Haddock6?

I'm disgusted, my GPU temp reached 39C:ranting2:

And, in other news, Haddock6 did indeed work and I shotted some people without the whole game crapping out.
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: TeaLeaf on June 27, 2008, 08:37:51 PM
Just gave up on previous core, had 5 completed WUs in the queue which were never sent and about to complete a 6th.  Uninstalled, lost all 5 and now on the new beta.  I hope these upload ok.

TL.
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: Jabbs on June 28, 2008, 08:23:32 AM
Quote from: BigFatCat;235784Running beta8 with a hacked .inf set of 177.41. It folds but will it play Haddock6?

I'm disgusted, my GPU temp reached 39C:ranting2:

And, in other news, Haddock6 did indeed work and I shotted some people without the whole game crapping out.

177.35 is in BETA (CUDA 2.0 BETA2)

169.21 is current STABLE (that's version 1.1 of CUDA)

I'm downloading now but again cause of the age of my PC (remember the monitor at LAN peeps? hehe) I'm not sure I will realistically be able to run it. :eyebrow:
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: Anonymous on June 28, 2008, 08:27:08 AM
Quote from: BigFatCat;235784I'm disgusted, my GPU temp reached 39C:ranting2:

What do you cool your GPU with?
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: BigFatCat on June 28, 2008, 09:16:00 AM
D-Tek Fusion GFX block, cheapy Nexxos III radiator.
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: Jabbs on June 28, 2008, 10:09:03 AM
My GPU attempt failed miserably.

This morning:

F@H GPU Client
1) Installed the new drivers for GeForce
2) Installed the GPU client
3) Ran the GPU client and Errored with incompatible driver/system

nVidia nTune
4) Noticed nTune so downloaded and installed
5) Ran nTune - usual stuff about performance tweaking, thought "I cant be assed to do it all myself so why not let nTune do it (there is an option to let nTune do it, can't remember what it's called)
6) Fine for a few minutes and then it hung the PC.  It does say PC will probably hang, but that it's ok cause nTune will carry on after reboot.
7) After hang, rebooted and PC failed to boot into windows
8) A couple more restarts and it still failed to get into Windows (desktop got there but nothing else)
8) Decide that nTune is foobarbed and therfore start in Safe Mode and run msconfig
9) Notice that the GPU client of F@H is in start up so wonder if that caused the problem so disable and start again
10) No change on restart so back to safe mode again
11) Safe mode and msconfig and disable nTune
12) no change again! PC still fails to get to Windows!
13) Stuff it, System Restore here I come
14) Everything fine after System Restore to pre-nTune and GPU client

Comments anyone?
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: Anonymous on June 28, 2008, 10:11:47 AM
install ntune before gpu client?
Title: Nvidia and Stanford finalizing Folding@Home client for GeForce GPUs
Post by: Jabbs on June 28, 2008, 10:18:04 AM
Quote from: BlueBall;235828install ntune before gpu client?

Cool, I might try that when I have an hour to spare (I'll need it for all the restarts later) :ranting2: