This is awesome.  Will come in very handy when I get my 3 way SLI rig setup!  Thanks you!

I have just released version 2.72 BETA. This fixes a crash bug when using Heat Control.

EDIT: updated to 2.72 to actually fix the problem, no other changes.

Just something I should point out. If you use the Heat Control option it will also reduce PPD as it lowers GPU usage.

I believe this deserves to be a sticky.

Version 2.74 is out which should fix all the problems with Heat Control. I have also added a mirror site due to my main site being rather unreliable lately. The next major version of the Tracker (2.8) will have support for checking the mirror site for updates if the main is down.

Nice, looks like you were also able to cut the memory usage by a third (and by more than half in terms of Virtual Size!!!) in 2.74 compared to 2.72!
 
Heat Control Settings appear to be working as intended as well on subsequent Work Units.

 Great Job!

Jedi,

Is there a way to update the configuration to use my existing CPU console client?  What about controlling GPU's on other computers?

Version 2.76 is out. This version adds several threading optimizations that should reduce GUI lag. The most noticeable change is that the Tracker will now start much faster than before.

Also nice to see that this thread is sticky now.

~The_Dude~

jedi,
   I just installed the new beta and when I try to run the tracker I get this error "the application failed to initialize propperly (0xc0000135) click ok to terminate the application"

I gave it a few tries and tried re downloading with no luck.

PS - Windows XP SP3, The program also seems to run fine in Windows 7.

~

Do you have .NET framework 3.5 installed? That's the only obvious reason I can think of for that kind of crash.

Well. I like the selective pause except for one bug that I have found. It seems that if one of the clients that are not supposed to be paused finish while I am gaming it will not start a new WU. It gives "Attempted to start GPU1 while game running, paused client." 

Just thought you should know about that one.

jedi95

farinhir

Well. I like the selective pause except for one bug that I have found. It seems that if one of the clients that are not supposed to be paused finish while I am gaming it will not start a new WU. It gives "Attempted to start GPU1 while game running, paused client." 

Just thought you should know about that one.

Thanks for reporting this, I have released version 2.77 with a fix to this problem.

Wow. Now that is what I call fast support. Thanks

farinhir

I was just wondering if it is possible to get this going using the GPU3 beta client. I am now running the pure client rather than this, but would prefer this.

It is possible to use the current version of the Tracker with the GPU3 client by doing the following:

1. Replace FAH_GPU.exe in the Tracker's root folder with the new GPU3 client (rename it to FAH_GPU.exe)
2. Replace the DLL files in each GPU folder with the DLLs that come with the GPU3 client. (so each GPU folder now has 6 DLL files in it)
3. Run the clients as usual
4. (OPTIONAL) Since the Stanford psummary lists don't have the new projects info you can use this list for now to support the new projects:
http://jedi95.uuuq.com/psummary.html

NOTES:

1. GTX 4xx + any previous cards can't fold at the same time in my testing (unless the older GPU runs the GPU2 client, but this isn't possible on the Tracker in this version)
2. Heat Control does not work with the GPU3 client because it ignores the FAH_GPU_IDLE environment variable.
3. Cards other than GTX 4xx get horrible PPD using the GPU3 client (roughly 30% reduction in PPD)

As for a version of the Tracker with offical support, that will have to wait until tomorrow since I will be adding an option to select which client (GPU2 or GPU3) to run on a per-GPU basis.

jedi95

farinhir

I was just wondering if it is possible to get this going using the GPU3 beta client. I am now running the pure client rather than this, but would prefer this.

It is possible to use the current version of the Tracker with the GPU3 client by doing the following:

1. Replace FAH_GPU.exe in the Tracker's root folder with the new GPU3 client (rename it to FAH_GPU.exe)
2. Replace the DLL files in each GPU folder with the DLLs that come with the GPU3 client. (so each GPU folder now has 6 DLL files in it)
3. Run the clients as usual
4. (OPTIONAL) Since the Stanford psummary lists don't have the new projects info you can use this list for now to support the new projects:
http://jedi95.uuuq.com/psummary.html

NOTES:

1. GTX 4xx + any previous cards can't fold at the same time in my testing (unless the older GPU runs the GPU2 client, but this isn't possible on the Tracker in this version)
2. Heat Control does not work with the GPU3 client because it ignores the FAH_GPU_IDLE environment variable.
3. Cards other than GTX 4xx get horrible PPD using the GPU3 client (roughly 30% reduction in PPD)

As for a version of the Tracker with offical support, that will have to wait until tomorrow since I will be adding an option to select which client (GPU2 or GPU3) to run on a per-GPU basis.

 

I have an amendment to his instructions. It seems that GPU tracker's command line arguments do not 
transfer into GPU3 readily. You have to start each client one at a time and enter the additional client parameters on the given line. I am using

-forceasm -advmenthods -verbosity 9 -gpu n -oneunit

as my setup, where n is the gpu slot. I am still testing the oneunit to see what happens when it finishes a WU, but my assumption is that GPU tracker will start the client back up after it closes. I always keep advmethods up just in case there is something for us there.  

The initial problems I had before I figured this out were that both my clients were running on GPU0. I am not sure what issues that would have had so I deleted the WU and started them over after setting my arguments in config.  

Got that problem fixed thanks to a friend. Working on this right now.

Works perfect for me, thanks jedi95.  Now I can nuke all the ridiculous folders and shortcuts I made earlier today :)

Love the auto game pause feature.