App won’t launch after restarting PC

[InfiniteHench]

Greetings! I’m new to folding but I’ll try to share all the relevant details of what’s going on. But first, when I clicked ‘Start Folding’ on the website, it served up version 8.3.18 for Windows (I’m on 11 23H2). It didn’t mention that this was a beta version, but here we are. In short:

The Problem: App runs fine if I only sleep my PC. On wake I can click ‘Fold’ in my Firefox tab and it gets back to work just fine. But if I restart my PC, the app will not launch no matter what. Yes, I clicked the option during install to launch it on startup, and no I have not messed with any of the app’s files or configs or flux capacitors or anything.

Launch from Start Menu, nothing. Dig into the folder and double click the executable (NOT the icon file), nothing. The only way I’ve been able to get the app to launch again is to simply re-run the installer. This strikes me as maybe just a bug, could that be it?

Additional details: Windows 11 23H2, AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, 4070 Ti Super, and 32GB of RAM. Folding has mostly run with my CPU(s), but a couple weeks ago I dabbled with giving it access to my GPU, but I didn’t like how hard my PC had to work while gaming so I disabled that. The ‘won’t run after restart’ problem existed both before and after I did this GPU experiment.

So, any idea what’s going on?

[calxalot]

I think this is caused by Windows killing the client on logout/shutdown.

Alpha v8.4.6 will catch the appropriate messages, which may fix the issue.

[InfiniteHench]

I think this is caused by Windows killing the client on logout/shutdown.

Alpha v8.4.6 will catch the appropriate messages, which may fix the issue.

Fair enough. How stable are the alphas, generally? I'm hoping to mostly set it and forget it with Folding, so if they require a lot of tinkering I might just deal with reinstalling the app/beta until those fixes reach beta or stable.

[calxalot]

Some people will say all v8 releases are alpha.

I’m mostly running macOS and find the alphas are pretty good.

I have not tried v8.4.6 bleeding edge.

[bollix47]

fyi
I've been using v8.4.5 ( https://foldingathome.org/alpha/ ) for a while now on all 8 of my setups, a mixture of win11 and ubuntu 24.04, and I find it very stable. I do check it using https://v8-4.foldingathome.org/machines daily but have not found it to be problematic.
https://foldingathome.org/v8-3-client-guide/ This guide may not include all the features of 8.4.5 but should help.

[Solo-Ion]

The problem seems to be that v8.3 Folding@Home needs administrator privileges to even start. I've given admin privileges to my F@H shortcuts and it starts fine now.

[calxalot]

Update:

https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-cl ... 2401584551