Joe_H wrote:Simplest is to pause folding completely, then let your system sleep or shut it down. You can usually resume afterwards from a checkpoint. The problem arises when sleeping with the GPU slot active as no indication is given to the software that the data in the GPU RAM might have gone away or have been otherwise changed. You don't see any issues on the display because the video system knows to refresh the screen after sleeping has ended.
Hi!
First thanks for tips. I am now running core_17 and it's running smoothly at cca. 35000PPD.
The CPU usage while running only core_17 (CPU slot paused) is very low, going around 5%.
Does it make sense now to use the CPU slot since I was getting only about 2-3000 PPD from my CPU? My processor is i3 3220 so would it decrease GPU performance if I use CPU as well (with threads set to 2 or 3)?
Regarding the sleep:
I am NOT using automatic sleep. My windows power settings are set so that computer NEVER goes to sleep on its own.
The thing is, when I manually stop slots by moving the slider to the left (to OFF), I still cannot initiate sleep.
Both CPU and GPU slots go to ready, but when I click on SLEEP, the computer just goes to LOCK.
So basically, I never shut down/sleep without pausing F@H, but SLEEP doesn't work even after pausing it.