Folding on WIndows 11 ARM (Snapdragon X plus/elite)

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Folding on WIndows 11 ARM (Snapdragon X plus/elite)

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Just tried folding@Home on my new Snapdragon x plus WIndows 11 ARM laptop, and even though I've enabled all 8 CPU cores, I'm only seeing 50% CPU utilization.

Does anybody have a solution to this?

Also, the tasks are x64, not native ARM64, when will native support be added?
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Not soon.

You might try the arm Linux tarball in WSL.
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Re: Folding on WIndows 11 ARM (Snapdragon X plus/elite)

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There are no folding cores compiled for Windows ARM, so the suggestion of trying the Linux installation under WSL is the only way to have native cores running.
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I suggested the tarball because I assume the systemd install won’t work in WSL.
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