V7 Client Open Beta Test Begins

[7im]

Read all about it in the FAH NEWs.
http://folding.typepad.com/news/2011/03/client-version-7-now-in-open-beta.html

Folding Forum announcement
FAHClient V7.1.21 released (1st Open-Beta)

[DancinJack]

Read all about it in the FAH NEWs.
http://folding.typepad.com/news/2011/03/client-version-7-now-in-open-beta.html

Folding Forum announcement
FAHClient V7.1.21 released (1st Open-Beta)

Wow. Thanks for this. I'm gonna give it a go for a few days.

Holy Crap. This should make folding MUCH easier for people that find it daunting.

Just a sneak peak..



Asks you for Donor name, team, passkey, and whether you want to initially set up a single client, smp, or gpu. Set smp -8 for me and just took off. [u]Really [/u ]simple.

[PhilipMcc]

I loaded the Win version on a spare desktop. Will send one or two uniprocessor then switch to SMP.

[HurgyMcGurgyGurg]

Eh, got me folding again.

Just 2.5k from an HD 4870 for now. New build in August will be a nice i7 2500k and probably an HD 6950 (depending on how the ATI core matures) so I should be able to help more then.

[bthylafh]

I'm throwing a 2500K at you, at least for system stability testing.

Asus's utility says I'm turbo'd up to 4.327 GHz.

[Flying Fox]

For some reason the UI just does not seem to work for me. Probably because of those cross platform toolkit crap where it works but looks bad on all OSes.

[rogue426]

I thought this new one was supposed to make it easier to fold? So far all I've had is fails on the GPU side, seems like I spend more time getting these clients set up right than anything else.

[DancinJack]

I thought this new one was supposed to make it easier to fold? So far all I've had is fails on the GPU side, seems like I spend more time getting these clients set up right than anything else.

That's too bad. I haven't set up a GPU on the new client yet, but setting up my i7 860 was easy as pie.

[Ragnar Dan]

If you're overclocking, that's probably the problem. Folding makes GPU's run hot, constantly, and you have to be careful about the clock speed. I have 3 GPU's I'm using, 2 of which are overclocked. One of them, an old 8800 GT, requires me to restart the machine every once in a while because it crashes and begins running much more slowly.

[Triple Zero]

I thought this new one was supposed to make it easier to fold? So far all I've had is fails on the GPU side, seems like I spend more time getting these clients set up right than anything else.

I've had much the same experience. I've got a GTS 250 and a GTX 460 in the same system but for some reason the v7 client won't detect the GTX 460. I've tried manually configuring using -gpuindex option as well but that didn't work either. Consequently I've decided to wait for a newer version of the beta client to be released before I try it again. SMP works just fine though.

[rogue426]

After some research it seems Nvidia drivers 270.61 are causing all sorts of failures with GPU clients whether the new v7 or v6, I rolled my drivers back to 266.xx and the the v7 client is working just as advertised with GPU and SMP slots. However, I still have a failed message on another system with an AMD 5770 on the new v7 client. Updates as I go

[JoJoBoy]

The new console is running just fine and took very little work to get both the smp and gpu Barts PRO up. The one thing I have noticed is the new FF 4.0 is so incredibly sluggish if I have a GPU folding in progress or paused. If there is no gpu work unit loaded FF runs great. Anyone know a solution....I have switched to using ie9 which has no troubles at all when Im folding a GPU work unit.