You can just install 8.3 over the existing 7.6 install. The installer will read the config.xml file for settings and use most of them. v8 stores its settings inside a client.db file instead of config.xml. The 7.6 FAHClient executable will be replaced with the v8 fah-client and FAHControl will be removed. The logs and work directories will remain, but v8 currently will not resume processing any WUs downloaded by the v7 client. So finish any WUs first before installing v8.
pcwolf wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:31 pm
Since the folding core "backend" is 7.6, is there a way to installing just the beta front end?
The backend is not v7.6 at all. It does use the same folding cores, but when it downloads them the directory structure is different from v7.6. The frontend for control and monitoring is web browser based Another change is that v8 uses a gpus.json file instead of GPUs.txt.
If you use HFM.net for monitoring, as I understand it that has not yet been updated to work with v8. You also can not use the v7.6 FAHControl to connect with a v8 client and vice versa.
I do not know when they plan on moving v8.3 from public beta to full release.
There are some other changes with v8 that I am not thinking of at the moment, but I think I remembered the major ones.