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11-19-2005, 05:27 PM
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Hey all. Way back when I was living with my parents I started folding a little bit, but only when I was logged onto my desktop (which was considerably more than anybody else in the home). Now that Ive gotten married and moved out, Im gonna start up again.
Ive been frequenting the PC Mech forums for some time now (especially for help with my new rig which will be up and running shortly after Thanksgiving), so I thought I would start folding for the PC Mech team. So at the moment I just have this old Compaq 1.5 P4 w/ 512mb ram Folding, but will soon have my new rig (in the sig) folding as well. Quick question though, I know its set up to simply use the unused clock cycles, but does the folding program slow your gaming down at all? I play Guild Wars quite often, and just wanted to know whether I should close Folding@Home if I wanted to optimize performance, as my current comp isnt exactly a multitasking beast. Later all
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11-19-2005, 06:11 PM
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Some games can have issues while Folding, so just try it both ways and go from there.
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11-19-2005, 08:08 PM
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Well, as far as I can tell, Guild Wars doesnt have any problems, so thats good.
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11-19-2005, 08:56 PM
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I saw some benchmarks a while back, and it does infact slow down games a small amount (which is no surprise). Personally I would just close it since very little will get done while playing a game, since the game will be using 95% of the CPU cycles.
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11-19-2005, 09:45 PM
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blue60007 is right but if you get adventurous scroll down the download list and try the new console beta.
It's all here : http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html and the ReadMe is here : http://folding.stanford.edu/console-userguide.html
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11-20-2005, 02:00 AM
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The 5.04 beta? Yeah, I got that one. Runnin it right now. =)
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11-21-2005, 02:11 AM
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Foldin' For PCMech!
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Welcome to the team!!
I posted an easy way to shutdown/start the folding service in the Info to Know thread, you can check that out if it will help any. |
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11-21-2005, 09:27 AM
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Welcome!
Yeah I just shut mine down during gametime.
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11-26-2005, 06:04 PM
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Folding For PCMech
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Welcome Krazeee. Good to have you folding.
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