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This whole experience left a very bad taste in my mouth and I decided to stop folding on my rigs. I can't recommend this project to my friends anymore given the refusal to document longstanding bugs with simple workarounds, and I've lost enough faith in the project to go out of my way to fold myself...

The bug and its workaround can be documented in just one sentence: Windows users: If you need to shut down your computer or put it to sleep, please pause all work units and wait at least a minute before doing so, or else you may lose all progress on a work unit due to a bug with Window's shutdown pr...

I hit pause, then move the cursor over to the start menu and hit "Shutdown", which takes about a second or two. I don't see why those assumptions were necessary. It's good that the bug is supposedly fixed in the 8.5 beta, but most people are not running the beta. I run 8.4.9 because that's...

It’s basically irrelevant that the bug is Microsoft’s fault; if it’s there it’s on the FAH project to clearly document it and any required workarounds. This is a fundamental, unfixed bug that throws away huge amounts of donors’ work and affects basically every Windows donor; is it such a big ask to ...

Thanks for the info. If pausing and waiting for a minute is a hard requirement for Windows users when shutting down to avoid losing all their work, why isn’t any of this information in the client guide or somewhere where users can easily find it (such as in the client itself in bright red letters)?

Also why is this all so poorly documented? Not everyone can afford to fold 24/7; electricity is expensive where I live and I can only justify running my rig when I’m occupying the room since I need to heat the room anyways. I need to often shut down the rig when I leave. Why doesn’t the V8.4 client ...

I've been pausing work units before shutting down to try to avoid losing work units, but I notice that if I go shut down right after hitting pause I will often still lose the work unit (even though the interface shows it as paused). How long does it take to actually pause a WU, and how long should I...

I have a spare GPU sitting around (an RTX 2070 Super), but unfortunately I can't fit a 2nd GPU in my main rig. I have an old 1st-gen Core i3-530 and a Dell motherboard sitting around that I could put the GPU into, and was wondering if a CPU that old (no AVX, etc.) can still support GPU folding. Than...

My GPU slot has also been attempting to send a completed WU to .214 for the last 12 hours. The WU is about to hit timeout.

Also I noticed that 155.247.164.214's status is set to "Assign", while it's the collection server for my WU that's been trying to send for a couple of hours. It appears to be up but not accepting work units.

Does the completed work eventually get deleted if it can't be send to 155.247.164.213, or does it keep trying to send it until the server is back up?

I frequently have to pause F@H to do other GPU-intensive tasks; unfortunately if I don't time this well I can lose a percent or two or work (since GPU units seem to revert to the last finished integer percent when I pause). Would it be possible to have the data automatically saved when the client is...