Folding Forum

Mmmh, so nobody has ever requested that feature? Should I request it for the new release?

Hello there, is there a way to schedule Folding to run only during specific hours and days? For example, to take advantage of lower electricity rates, or to warm up during winter nights or avoid too much heat during summer. In my case, the reason would be electricity rates and I'd like to set Foldin...

P.S. Don't undersize the UPS. Runtime and battery life is very short if you are operating one at over 50% of its VA capacity. That is not the same as watts, typically they are allowing for a power factor in the 0.7 range. Personally I only buy in the 1200-1500 VA range for my systems, smaller units...

As long as you use an USB connected UPS that follows the USB standards for HID devices connected to the system you will know whether or not the power is "out". You may not want to use the provided software for Windows. That has sometimes been reported to interfere with the battery vs. wal...

Ah. Missed that from skimming. I take it the router will not be on UPS? Your script should use fahctl or lufah to pause folding, rather than sending signals to cores. I have no idea what BOINC supports. Would it look like this? function Pause-Folding { Write-Log "Pausing Folding..." Start...

I can't see how a script will be successful at reading power state if the OS can't. Did I miss something? The script doesn't read power state, but internet connection. In the first post I wrote: My idea is linking it to the internet connection: when the router shuts off, PC pauses BOINC and Folding...

If you are buying modern, better known brand UPS, it will definitely going to be compatible with popular OSs (windows, Linux and probably Mac). You can always google the potential products you want to buy, and see their spec sheets and product details. I am certain they will mention the compatibili...

Thanks for that advice, but I'm not sure if I have a way to know whether the UPS will be recognized by Folding and BOINC; so I'd like (or better: I need) to plan carefully. Should I ask the sellers of each UPS I'm considering if they are recognized by Windows 11 as batteries? What do you suggest? Th...

All the UPS models I've seen do have a usb connection, but I haven't bought it yet and can't really know if it'll show on the Folding client... I don't want to send it back, that's why I wanted to test such a script before buying it. So if it shows, fine; otherwise I'll use the automatic script. Do ...

Hello everyone, I experience power losses from time to time and I'm worried it could damage my PC, so I'll buy a UPS (backup battery). Since my measured power draw is 340 watts with Folding and BOINC, but less than 90 watts without them, I'd be much better off pausing them automatically when there's...

Okay, thanks. I'll go on pausing before shutting down. Thanks.

Hello there, I'm on Windows 11 and Folding always dumps work units when pc reboots or shutdown normally. Weirdly enough, if there's a sudden power loss, WUs are not lost and start again from the last checkpoint. Windows gives me the brief warning "This app is preventing shutdown", showing ...

Thanks. I'll run Y-cruncher, but I'm more worried if my GPU has some underlying issue that could make it fail with Folding. Any way to test that?

If EXPO Profile 1 is 6000MT/s 30-36-36-76 1.35V; Expo 2 is 5600 MT/s CL36-38-38 (if I recall correctly). They're the two standard RAM overclock profiles, usually you'd use EXPO 1, but mine apparently is unstable, or there's some voltage problem with the pre-made profile, as you saw. Instead of tweak...

I first tested if it was an Expo issue, set Expo 2 instead of Expo 1 and Memtest this time passed. Guess RAM is fine, but unstable on Expo 1?

Should I run Y-cruncher now?