Quick Guide to Resource Groups (Alternative to v7 Slots)
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2025 7:31 pm
So instead of continuously rewriting the same guide to everyone who gets mixed up of which of their hardware is actually folding, I thought I'll write a short guide to introduce people to some organisation within their v8 clients.
So by default users see a bunch of hardware in one place and controlled by single Fold/Pause button. So if you want to Pause a GPU, but CPU, tough luck. That's where Resource Groups come in. The reason they are hidden in Advanced Settings, we had to beat this feature out of the dev
So, log in to your fah account. Finish all the work, if you have any running. Click the cog looking icon, then click on padlock looking icon in bottom right corner. Advanced Settings will be unlocked.
On the left hand side now you can see Resource Group section, with Default group shown.
Click on that, push the CPU slider to zero and untick any GPUs you have.
I take one of my machines as example. I have one CPU with 32 threads, 2 GPUs (1x Radeon 7, 1x RX9070).
So once you unticked the GPUs and zeroed the CPU slider in Default group,
click Add in left bottom corner.
Name the group (9950x, or whatever your CPU is called). Set the CPU slider to 30 (in my case, as I have 32 threads, I leave 2 threads for my GPUs). Untick the GPUs.
Click Add again, name the group Radeon 7 (or whatever you GPU is called). Set CPU slider to zero, tick only the GPU you created this group for (in my case gfx906, which is Radeon 7)
Click Add again, name the group RX9070 (or whatever your second GPU is called). Set CPU slider to zero, tick only the GPU you created this group for (in my case gfx1201, which is RX9070). Click Save
This is what it should look like, when you go back to Settings menu:
Default group:
Radeon 7
RX9070
Ryzen 9950x
And this is the main page:
Hope this helps to bring a bit more organisation to your set up
So by default users see a bunch of hardware in one place and controlled by single Fold/Pause button. So if you want to Pause a GPU, but CPU, tough luck. That's where Resource Groups come in. The reason they are hidden in Advanced Settings, we had to beat this feature out of the dev
So, log in to your fah account. Finish all the work, if you have any running. Click the cog looking icon, then click on padlock looking icon in bottom right corner. Advanced Settings will be unlocked.
On the left hand side now you can see Resource Group section, with Default group shown.
Click on that, push the CPU slider to zero and untick any GPUs you have.
I take one of my machines as example. I have one CPU with 32 threads, 2 GPUs (1x Radeon 7, 1x RX9070).
So once you unticked the GPUs and zeroed the CPU slider in Default group,
click Add in left bottom corner.
Name the group (9950x, or whatever your CPU is called). Set the CPU slider to 30 (in my case, as I have 32 threads, I leave 2 threads for my GPUs). Untick the GPUs.
Click Add again, name the group Radeon 7 (or whatever you GPU is called). Set CPU slider to zero, tick only the GPU you created this group for (in my case gfx906, which is Radeon 7)
Click Add again, name the group RX9070 (or whatever your second GPU is called). Set CPU slider to zero, tick only the GPU you created this group for (in my case gfx1201, which is RX9070). Click Save
This is what it should look like, when you go back to Settings menu:
Default group:
Radeon 7
RX9070
Ryzen 9950x
And this is the main page:
Hope this helps to bring a bit more organisation to your set up