Folding Forum

prolecat wrote:yea that might be a solution to the first mentioned problem, but i found out the viewer on the beta GPU3 client works fine and has all the beauty and stats on it that i wanted so im happy now about that, originally it would just say "viewer.exe" had a problem and needed to close, i updated to newest nVidia drivers and restarted, used driver cleaning client, and now the viewer works and doesnt crash unless i hit the FULLSCREEN button, then it locks up and crashes, so i just drag it out and size it myself when i want to show someone the cool look of using your personal computing power to solve diseases.

Right, but doing so comes at a significant cost to the amount of science your GPU is doing (because it spends a significant length of time computing the display rather than computing the 'folding'... I don't think for the most part people would notice the difference between a generic loop and the 'live output'. If you wanted to get really fancy I guess you could even have a number of random of work units that it alternates between (say large and small). I guess that is possibly something a third party app could achieve... I certainly don't have the skills to 'insert' the current folding stats into a video loop, but maybe someone does.

prolecat wrote:Now i just need to figure out how to get MY stats as a signature! My team isnt top 6000 to make OCN's website, so idk how to make a sig to display my stats

There are a couple of stats sites that allow you to do that from memory, but I can't remember which... Otherwise I guess it's time to start power folding!

An improved viewer is on our feature list for the full v7 client. We have been concentrating on the basics first, but this is on our minds. We have some ideas on how we can balance the viewer CPU/GPU cycles with the science calculation. Also, a pretty view can often attract more people to the project, so it does serve a larger goal.

The viewer works fine for me. But only the system tray, shows the better shots. I did't test it with the 6800's, but the normal
WU's didn't seem to take a big hit. Besides a few points, there isn't any rush to get the WU's done. I mean, no bonus, why worry.

whereabouts in FL are you located RAH?