Can the screensaver and the no-nonsense console version fold on the same machine?

bs-of-the-eastbs-of-the-east Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
edited April 2005 in Folding@Home
Today I added a second home machne to F@H. I mistakenly selected the screensaver, download it and figuered what the hey it might be nice to see the protein as a screensaver so I installed it. I then setup the no-nonsense console version.

Well the screensaver just popped up and the protein is no the same as the console version. Should I uninstall the screensaver? :confused:

Comments

  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    are you using a hyperthreaded cpu or dual cpu's? If so you can leave it but you need to modify the client.cfg machineID for the console version.
    If not I'd say you probably shouldn't be running both. Not that it will harm anything that I know of but you might get into issues somewhere along the line.
  • bs-of-the-eastbs-of-the-east Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
    edited April 2005
    Thanks for the quick reply. I'm running an Barton 2500 on an NF7-S mobo, I'll try to uninstall the screensaver console. :thumbsup:
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    well by screensaver I think you meant the gui version right?
    and you mean the same thing by screensaver console right?
    Just making sure you're we're on the same page cause I'm thinking gui 503 and console 502. 503 is only newer cause it was buggy and had to be redone.
  • bs-of-the-eastbs-of-the-east Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
    edited April 2005
    Per the readme file:

    Folding@Home Screensaver Version 4.00
    December 8, 2003

    Welcome to the Folding@Home project! This installer will set up
    Folding@home screensaver on your computer and make it the default
    screensaver for the current user.

    Best guess, the screensaver is GUI and the other version is the no nonsense console.

    Sorry for the confusion, all I wanted was to have the same graphic from electon microscope be displayed as a screensaver. :grumble:
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    oh well apparantly the screensaver is still there ...but that's more than likely all it is. I'm guessing that it's not really folding at all but just a screensaver in which case it's cool if you leave it on there.

    Now ...if you want the same graphic model and protein you would use the 503 gui version. It would show the correct protein you are folding. In that case just remove the console version altogether. you can acutally leave the folder you currently use and place the 503 client in there. that way it will take over whatever wu you are currently folding and you won't lose points.

    so if you configured the 502 console as a service you need to reconfigure as a non-service. Then copy the 503 gui version into the folder and delete the current client.cfg. Then start the 503 gui and it will take you thru the config process.

    That's all ...then you can remove the screensaver if you don't want it.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    If I recall, it does fold, but only when your computer has the screensaver up. It should show the graphical version as the screensaver.
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