Windows 7 Folding?

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Re: Windows 7 - All Windows 7 comments go here.

Post by rpfaas »

i tested windows 7 32 bit on my toshiba lappie:
core duo 1,6ghz
1gb ram

installed cpu client as a service, with advanced methods and big wu's enabled.

it all ran flawlessly, with no real difference in speed from windows XP MCE and ploughed through three 905 point wu's until i decided to go back to XP.

greetz,

Richard
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Post by astrial »

Win7 x64 on my laptop, C2D T7100, GeForce 8600M GS...

installed SMP and GPU, no errors at all...
C2D E6550, 9800GT - SMP2 + GPU2
Ax2 5200+, HD4670 - SMP2 + GPU2
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8800 ultra in windows 7

Post by pghguins »

The 8800 ultra has been running good on the windows 7 beta. I've noticed that there is a optional prelease driver out there called WDDM 1.1 I'll attach a piture. Would this driver work for folding and could it be better?

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Thanks
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Re: 8800 ultra in windows 7

Post by chungenhung »

waiting for your response as I've been thinking of messing around with Windows 7 on one of my machines.
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Re: 8800 ultra in windows 7

Post by ^w^ing »

Seems to be some beta drivers with support for the new WDDM, so I'd say it only adds compatibility with some of the new w7 visual features, nothing which should be f@h related. Dont know if folding would work, but it should work. Any improved f@h performance is doubtful tho, as it really only seems to be some recently released driver with only WDDM 1.1 support added.
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Re: 8800 ultra in windows 7

Post by DanGe »

The driver will work. I'm using a similar driver from Windows Update and I haven't seen any performance hit compared to my Vista with 177.xx drivers.
By the way, the pre-release driver version is 179.43.
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Post by batman113 »

Im testing on my main rig with just the gpu client. Most things are running ok but i have had three EUE pauses which i never had before in vista. But so far thats the only problem><. Windows7 ftw...
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Post by Jejking »

Since Windows 7 seems to work pretty well with CPU- and GPU-clients, I am wondering...

Did anybody see performance gains while being:
- using Win 7 Beta versus XP or Vista?
- using a new build (f.e. 7068) and compared to an older build like 7000?
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Post by poyaochuang »

installed *64 release canidate 7100, faster installation time than vista *64
smp beta 6.23 cpu working good now,
6.23 gpu working good now,

like vista 64, when I -configonly smp beta,
it will encounter errors and shut the process,
but after few tries,
-configonly will work
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Post by noop »

Win7 + ATI 4670 with GPU client must have the latest version of Catalyst Control Center downloaded from here: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx (I suppose you could go to ATI's website but I'm too lazy to find that :P)
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Post by DanGe »

185.81 drivers for NVIDIA GPUs (64-bit and 32-bit) for Windows 7 were posted on the NV public downloads page a few days ago. I'm planning to give folding a shot with these drivers. Any official word on using these yet (especially after the outcry over using the leaked 185 drivers)?

By the way, Windows Updates do not provide these drivers yet.
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Post by tomc001 »

A couple of days ago I added a second GTX260 to my Windows 7 machine. At the same time I checked NVidia for drivers and upgraded from 181.71 to 185.81.

So far it is working well with the 2 GTX260 gpu folders and a single smp folder. Processor is a Core i7 920.


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Post by DanGe »

Is anyone seeing a worse 2D lag with Windows 7 RC (build 7100)? I've tried both 181.72 and 185.85 drivers and both of them have the same lag, though the 185 one, for me, is only slightly worse (barely noticeable).

I guess my 9500GT might be exaggerating the lag since it's a slower graphics card...but it's still more laggy.
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Post by chluk2425 »

This might not be the right question becoz of fah currently not officially supporting Windows 7, but I doubt no one is using runing GPU FAH under Windows 7

In ATi official web site: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal ... ws-7-64bit
there are two drivers for win7 64bit (same for 32bit, 2 drivers), one released on 8/4/2009, which I think everyone got this, but there's another one released on 5/5/2009, with Windows 7 WHQL Driver under the download button, does anyone know any difference between them?

The CCC version and driver version is definitely different....
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The one released on 8/4/2009
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The one released on 5/5/2009
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just started running FAH, got 3567ppd for 384pt WU, slightly higher then the one released on 8/4/2009
and cpu usage is always 0-1%
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Post by Lgringo »

how many cores does Windows 7 RC support, i.e., will it see 8? TIA.
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