I'll give it a shot on my 980X when I get home tonight and see how it goes.

Can someone post how to set up this new client, been too busy to mess around with it.

Barbarossa

as already posted by Linuxrouter in another thread

KassonWe've turned off bigadv on linux for the time being. We're switching bigadv over to A3, but as you may have noticed there's a bug in the linux A3 core that affects bigadv stability. We've been working on the bug, but it's still in hiding at this time. If you're running VM's under windows, I'd suggest trying the native windows client, which is still enabled for bigadv. OS/X is also still enabled.

http://foldingforum.org/v...p;t=14792&start=15

and over at the [H], somebody already got a windows bigadv
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1529364

Now who´s willing to try it out

i noticed 2 days ago... no more a2

Interesting. I wish the 2684's were done (or fixed) though.
I'll switch over and see what my 930 gets on it. If the PPD and stability is better than it was on linuxrouters image program, I'll run it. 

Anybody have a estamated PPD for a i7 @4ghz? I'm getting about 25k ppd on the windows A3 in HFM.

danger30q
My question is can I run bigadv now natively in Win7 if I run -smp 6 or -smp 7? Also, I usually game for about 2-3 hours a day so could I still complete the bigadv work units in time? 

 


In theory yes. The reason people were able to run -smp 7 in Linux VM was because the VM was configured with 8-cores. The folding client needs to be able to see at least 8 cores before it will attempt to download bigadv work. Project 2684 takes considerably longer to complete than p2681-2683 via Core A2. With a 920 @ 4.0 GHz, I think you will be fine if you were to run -smp 8. With a 920 @ 4.0 GHz, my completion time for 2684 was a little over 3-days and the preferred deadline is 4-days. 7-core folding may or may not be fast enough. You might be cutting it close to the 4-day deadline.

First -bigadv wu started. This is on a 980X @ 3.63 running on all cores 100% and running 1 GPU client at the same time.

I was wondering why I wasn't getting any -bigadv work units. I guess I'll try the Windows client tomorrow. Any idea how much memory the Windows client uses while doing -bigadv work?

Found this info at the [H]:
"The system is only using 1.77GB of memory with Win 7 Ult 64bit"

slugbug

Found this info at the [H]:
"The system is only using 1.77GB of memory with Win 7 Ult 64bit"

Any more info along with that? Other clients or gadgets running? I have Precision and a CPU Usage gadget running as well as AVG. AVG could be adding a bit to it.
 
The rig I'm on right now is an i5-750 with a GPU client running, and Precision, HFM, IE8, AVG, F@H gadget, CPU Usage gadget, Clock gadget, and Calendar gadget. Currently using 1745MB.

Amazingly low memory footprint on these 2684s.

Even on my dual hex system running -smp 24, Folding is only using about 1.4GB of memory.

Neither, but you´ll have to ditch your vms and run the native win smp client if you want to continue folding the bigadv.
If you still can run them with -smp 7 there idk

Barbarossa

Neither, but you´ll have to ditch your vms and run the native win smp client if you want to continue folding the bigadv.
If you still can run them with -smp 7 there idk

The only problem I have heard of was using the -smp 11, for some reason it didn't like that number for someone. It should work just the same as always for the flags.

there was no offical announcement, only the "btw its available for windows" in Kassons post yesterday

Just installed the Windows client and it's doing a p2684 -bigadv WU. Will report later on the ppd.