whenever that option comes up on a new folder of mine I just hit enter so whatever is the default choice is what I use on all of my machines. I've never experienced slow downs or had F@H get in the way. Some games do experience drops in frames or less smooth gameplay but for the most part it really doesn't get in the way. The only time I turn off F@H is when I capture video and encode it. A lot of the pagefile and windows tweaks could possibly help to alleviate games slowing down while Folding.
It just chooses where F@H Sits on the CPU Priority Listing.
It's mostly for stability issues.
I've not seen a difference between idle & low anyway.
I prefer idle, it pisses less processes off. It sits just about system idle process (which just send a HLT (halt) instrution to the CPU) and therefore can't disrupt anything at all really.
It doesnt really matter. I run a genome service in the background on idle and my main on Low. The main gromacs takes all the cycles cept during WU transfer and then the genome kicks in.
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It's mostly for stability issues.
I've not seen a difference between idle & low anyway.
I prefer idle, it pisses less processes off. It sits just about system idle process (which just send a HLT (halt) instrution to the CPU) and therefore can't disrupt anything at all really.