Folding Forum

Sorry if you got the wrong idea, but I was not attempting to "alter FAH's hardware recognition techniques". I'm trying to figure out why FAH doesn't recognize my hardware. After reading posts for a good few hours here I saw it was important to have a GPUs file (some did not have one), and ...

I got Open Hardware Monitor for monitoring temps. With a little help from my friend, I got it installed and running. Also installed the client and monitor and everything is running. The problem I have is the client says I have a Pitcairn GPU, but it is actually Tahiti XT. GPUs.txt has Tahiti XT in i...

OK, I got 14.04.4 LTS. The 64 bit version worked fine. I downloaded the linux driver from AMD. At least the one I thought would work (out of 8 choices?). Reboot... black screen. Wiped drive, reinstalled, and let Ubuntu choose the driver to download. Up and running. Before going any further, I want s...

Wow, thanks for all the input! I did a little reading, and had kind of given up on Linux. All your info has me reconsidering it. This old computer is rather pitiful. The processor is 64 bit, but hyper-threading is disabled through the motherboard. I have been unable to figure out if the motherboard ...

Well, at least my cash did not go to waste. Thanks toTow! I've checked out Ubuntu a bit before. From what I've read, that seems to be the best flavor for folding. Unfortunately, I'm more of a gui kinda guy, and this looks more command-line based. Time to do some researching.

Per the install guide: ◾GPU Slot Requirements ◾Windows XP SP3 or newer for NVIDA GPUs, 32 or 64 bit ◾Windows Vista SP2 or newer for AMD GPUs, 32 or 64 bit It looks like XP is no longer supported for AMD GPUs. Is that correct? The rest of the story: I just upgraded to an R9 Fury. I have a leftover R9...