switches?

Bud

i see that it helps to use -advmethods and -forceasm switches when folding but how do i turn them on and what do they do?

shwaip

are you running the graphical or console client?

advmethods makes you get gromacs work units, which are a much better points/time investment on a p4 (as well as most AMD processors, but it's not extreme)

forceasm make the athlon processors (those which support it) use SSE

Bud

also do i want to click folding@home or genome or no preference in the configure screen?

Bud

i run graphical client and i use athalon cpu's

shwaip

folding @ home, but once you use the switches (forceasm and advmethods), your choice will be ignored

In the shortcut to your folding in the start menu, just add them after the last quote in the box:

"c:\foldingishere\fah.exe" -advmethods -forceasm


edit:

here's an example for the console, but you do the same for the graphical

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6347

Bud

thanks makes sense now

t1rhino

If you are running the prerelease4 then you should use "forceSSE" instead of "forceasm" for AMD chips.