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by BobWilliams757
Wed May 27, 2026 4:15 am
Forum: Issues with a specific WU
Topic: p18245, slow?
Replies: 31
Views: 2034

Re: p18245, slow?

Click on the question mark on that GPU Z window to load the GPU and then see what pcie speed is running. If the screenshot was taken when GPU is already loaded with folding, then you have an issue without pcie mode. It shows X1, and that is too slow even with pcie5 gen Yes you're absolutely right, ...
by BobWilliams757
Sun May 24, 2026 12:49 am
Forum: Issues with a specific WU
Topic: p18245, slow?
Replies: 31
Views: 2034

Re: p18245, slow?

I would look at clocks, and people are bumping them fairly substantially in many cases. I have a 2400G, 16G memory, and a 5060ti on Win10. Same PCIE 3.0 x 8. Though the bus interface load will show near or at 100% average when overclocked, it will leave a few percent at stock clocks. This is with ha...
by BobWilliams757
Sat May 23, 2026 5:17 am
Forum: Issues with a specific WU
Topic: p18245, slow?
Replies: 31
Views: 2034

Re: p18245, slow?

Apologies for hijacking, but this is interesting to me. I just installed an RTX 5060 yesterday evening. I've seen people say the average PPD is 6mil, but so far i've only been folding p18245, and my PPD has stayed around 4mil, TPF around 1min 50. The clock speed is fine, runs VRel as well, but watt...
by BobWilliams757
Sat May 23, 2026 5:12 am
Forum: Issues with a specific server
Topic: Fairly frequent timeouts downloading workunits
Replies: 7
Views: 1520

Re: Fairly frequent timeouts downloading workunits

I've noticed the warnings when it was struggling to pick up work with repeated retries. Other than the warning that shows up, it keeps cycling with no ill impact that I could find, so I just ignore the warning.... beyond it making me notice that it's having issues.
by BobWilliams757
Fri May 15, 2026 5:41 am
Forum: v8.5.5 Public Release for Windows / Linux / macOS
Topic: Repeated Memory Access Errors
Replies: 12
Views: 2158

Re: Repeated Memory Access Errors

Windows memory tester isn't very reliable. Run memtest86 from a boot drive. Go from there.
by BobWilliams757
Mon Apr 20, 2026 3:19 pm
Forum: GPU Projects and FahCores
Topic: The F&H 8.5.6 client did not give any points after folding that ran without errors.
Replies: 24
Views: 3133

Re: The F&H 8.5.6 client did not give any points after folding that ran without errors.

The missing points arrived today at 10:17 and 10:18, thank you. SOLVED!!!!! Just for future reference.... Every now and then a new issue will pop up and this type of thing takes place. But in years of folding around the clock I don't think I have ever been denied a credit for work that I did on my ...
by BobWilliams757
Mon Apr 20, 2026 3:16 pm
Forum: Issues with a specific WU
Topic: Project 18260 18268
Replies: 17
Views: 2642

Re: Project 18260 18268

Justin,,

My credits have already showed up. Thanks for your part in the fix.
by BobWilliams757
Tue Mar 31, 2026 6:15 pm
Forum: Issues with a specific WU
Topic: Project 18281
Replies: 4
Views: 1362

Re: Project 18281

toTOW wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2026 10:42 pm See comments in the beta thread about p18281 : viewtopic.php?t=43321
Good thing you posted that. I was thinking about 18261 since I get lots of them, and not the 18281 the OP asked about.

Complete user error on my end! :mrgreen:
by BobWilliams757
Mon Mar 30, 2026 5:52 pm
Forum: Issues with a specific WU
Topic: Project 18281
Replies: 4
Views: 1362

Re: Project 18281

I haven't had any failures on that project myself. Whenever you get a failed work unit it's best to try and see if it failed for the next user as well. Just use the below link. https://apps.foldingathome.org/wu If it fails for the next user it is probably a bad work unit. You could post on the forum...
by BobWilliams757
Thu Feb 26, 2026 12:36 am
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: What is best practice for overclocking / undervolting a 50xx in Linux?
Replies: 17
Views: 11378

Re: What is best practice for overclocking / undervolting a 50xx in Linux?

You can also increase the memory clock, which is useful for very large WUs (many atoms) and most GPUs handle it far better. The actual values for both shader and memory clock offsets varies not just for individual models, but for actual individual cards themselves. That is why the current values ar...
by BobWilliams757
Tue Feb 17, 2026 11:19 pm
Forum: Discussions of General-FAH topics
Topic: Plan my folding sessions and work
Replies: 2
Views: 1352

Re: Plan my folding sessions and work

I just fold 23/7 and have downtime when needed to blow out the system. With a stable system there is no need to quit folding for video calls, watching video, even light gaming, along with other tasks. So I don't need to "keep up" with any scheduling, the system just keeps running. LAR syst...
by BobWilliams757
Sun Feb 08, 2026 11:06 pm
Forum: Problems with NVidia drivers
Topic: gpu disabled 5080
Replies: 17
Views: 3486

Re: gpu disabled 5080

Just to add to the thread: I had a similar issue yesterday when I installed a new GPU on 7.6.21 and it detected but showed as disabled. Tried slot options, a full uninstall and reinstall of 7.6.21 and several reboots, the new driver confirmations, etc. Nothing was making it work. Installed the 8.5.6...
by BobWilliams757
Fri Feb 06, 2026 4:59 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Setting affinity to maximize efficiency on an AMD cpu with Linux: a "case of study"
Replies: 18
Views: 3268

Re: Setting affinity to maximize efficiency on an AMD cpu with Linux: a "case of study"

Lem, As stated above by ToTow, frame time and/or PPD values are the only real way to measure improvements on F@H. Though it can take more time to test, I'd suggest you do so, testing with multiple methods (CPU and GPU, CPU only, GPU only, Boinc included wherever you do it, etc) and find hard results...
by BobWilliams757
Sun Jan 04, 2026 2:12 pm
Forum: v8.4.9 Public Release for Windows / Linux / macOS
Topic: Why can't I do more than 1 WU at a time?
Replies: 9
Views: 6206

Re: Why can't I do more than 1 WU at a time?

Which work unit IS running? I suspect that your CPU is folding, and the issue lies with detection of the GPU and/or iGPU.
by BobWilliams757
Tue Dec 30, 2025 8:22 pm
Forum: V7.6.x Public Release Windows/Linux/MacOS X
Topic: Weird "exception: bad allocation" behaviour
Replies: 22
Views: 8556

Re: Weird "exception: bad allocation" behaviour

Other than the error showing up, it worked fine for me on V7. I just haven't had any of them since November.