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Anyone here running Windows 7 with the SMP client? I'm trying to get it working but I can't get the necessary files installed (via install.bat) to get the core running and I checked over at the folding forum and it doesn't appear as though anyone over there is running W7 just yet, though they do have a placeholder for comments.

[augie]

OMG Mark, be easy on them! It's not a real priority for Stanford to put out code for W7 right now, maybe next year eh? Jeez, they just got their GPU2 beta cores going very nicely now after a hiccup last November. Hey, try SMP in VMWare and see if it works in W7, it would be interesting to know.

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I got it working. I think the issue was due to a space being in the directory that it was installed to. Have it running out of C:\folding and all seems to be working well. Maybe since Windows 7 is less resource hungry than Vista I'll have a better PPD average now.

[augie]

I got it working. I think the issue was due to a space being in the directory that it was installed to. Have it running out of C:\folding and all seems to be working well. Maybe since Windows 7 is less resource hungry than Vista I'll have a better PPD average now.

Well, you know what's the best OS to run this is right?;) Compile your own little kernel in *nix, though *nix SMP has to be the x64 version as I'm running in VMWare ATM. Good luck on your PPD, we'll see in a couple of days. I'll be installing W7 shortly so we can then compare notes on folding.

[imnuts Profile Website]

I got it working. I think the issue was due to a space being in the directory that it was installed to. Have it running out of C:\folding and all seems to be working well. Maybe since Windows 7 is less resource hungry than Vista I'll have a better PPD average now.

Well, you know what's the best OS to run this is right?;) Compile your own little kernel in *nix, though *nix SMP has to be the x64 version as I'm running in VMWare ATM. Good luck on your PPD, we'll see in a couple of days. I'll be installing W7 shortly so we can then compare notes on folding.

I have Gentoo installed on another partition on my computer, though GRUB is broken ATM due to installing Windows 7. Unfortunately, I don't want to run a 64-bit version of Linux without going full 64-bit, which isn't quite possible yet. I do know that my Gentoo install was faster than anything else I've used before as it was a very stipped down kernel and since everything installed from source, it was all compiled just for my system. FreeBSD is the only other thing I'd say compared to the responsiveness of the system.

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Windows 7 seems to run slower than Vista for SMP folding performance. Maybe it's just because lately I've been doing a little bit more than I did with Vista, but all of the WU that I'm getting seem to be taking about 6-8 hrs longer now than they did previously. I used to be able to finish them in just under 2 days, now it's about 2¼-½ or so.

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I have windows 7 running on my laptop and as a whole i find it slower than Vista but i have had Vista a while and have tweaked the speed.
I have it folding but for some reason (not yet identified) Fahmon will not give results.
I will play for a while and if i find anything i will post it.

[yeshuas]

I have windows 7 running on my laptop and as a whole i find it slower than Vista but i have had Vista a while and have tweaked the speed.
I have it folding but for some reason (not yet identified) Fahmon will not give results.
I will play for a while and if i find anything i will post it.

I had a hard time getting FAHmon to display too, but it was my fault as I had it pointing to the wrong directory as it is a little bit different for whatever reason in Window 7