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Ok thanks Bruce, I'll check them out.

Shuriken1.

Ok, thanks for all of that info, very interesting.

Sounds like I just need to give it a go on a few different machines and see how they manage, which I will do next week.

Thanks for your help,

Shuriken1.

Hi codysluder, Yeah, that's pretty much my theory at the moment, other the fact that I was planning on playing it even safer with one uniprocessor client at 50%. What makes sense though is to just tell schools not to install it on single-core PCs! Not sure why I didn't think of that before, but that...

You can install the classic client as many times as you have cores, which will use 100% cpu time. If you want to cut that down, use one client per two cores and let it run 100%, the same result but the work unit is returned much quicker and that's preferred. Yeah, the problem is that if this msi we...

You should note that the deadlines for even classic client work units are pretty short right now and not knowing the hardware involved running 8 hours a day for 50% might not be enough. Oh really?! :( Most of our computers are dual-core ~2.8Ghz, 2 or 3Gb of RAM, HPs of various description mostly. T...

Oh, and I'm not gonna put it on the servers, that properly would hike our bill up a bit! lol. Just the pc's.

Shuriken1.

Hi Brazos, Yep, fair point. I was also concerned about the state of the machines, so I decided that I'm only going to run it at about 30-50%. I think that should keep heat, damage, electricity costs etc down. 30% is pretty low but the way I see it, 30% of 300 computers is better than nothing! :) Sho...

Ok, thanks for your reply MtM, I'll keep it in mind.

Shuriken1.

That's a shame. :( I'll hold out for an official answer (hoping they have time) but I think I know what the answer will be. Although, if I can configure the msi to download the fah .exe as part of the installation process rather than including it in the msi file, would that make it allowable? I don'...

Hi Everyone, I'm new here although not so new to the F@H project as a whole. I'm a network manager at a school in the UK and it struck me recently that schools have lots of idle computers. I've managed to compile the console version of the 'classic' client (v6.23) into an msi that installs it as a s...