can someone pursude my mum?

[darkside]

ive been aksing my mum to install F@H for a while and she wont, shes worried about it slowing down her laptop/security.

can anyone help me pursaude her to join the team by giving me some testamonials and such?

i could just install it when she wasnt looking and she wouldnt ever notice but im just not that way out unfortunatley

Cheers for any replies
Nathan

[allburnintegrated]

F@H only uses SPARE clock cycles. It will only use the CPU when nothing else needs it. When some other program needs the CPU, F@H will stop using clock cycles in a time unnoticeable to a human. So no difference there.

It does always use a certain amount of memory though, about 25MB (unless you choose to allow it to use large WUs), which it will still use no matter what else is also running. I wouldn't use F@H if you are running Windows XP with only 256MB of RAM, but if you have more than that, you won't notice any performance loss.

And if you try to run some games, the game will keep minimising itself until you close F@H. I've found it does that for me. Might just be me.

[neochivers]

it wont affect performance at all

[ComputerNut]

Originally Posted by allburnintegrated And if you try to run some games, the game will keep minimising itself until you close F@H. I've found it does that for me. Might just be me.

Yeah, thats happened to me a few times. Every time id try to play gta3, id have to close F@H before i can run it.

Neochivers: I sometimes do experience performance loss, but its only really evident in games. typically the frame rate tends to fluctuate periodically. I guess it boils down to system specs.

HTH,
CN

[darkside]

its no use guys, she just refuses to help mankind (and my WU count for that matter)

cheers anyway

[enhanced08]

try some videos

http://forum.folding-community.org/viewtopic.php?t=3770

[David M]

Simply tell her if she notices a drop in the speed of her computer that you will uninstall the program. She won't notice a difference because there is no difference.