Welcome!

If anyone is also experiencing problems with their AMD GPU not folding and the gpu being greyed out after install, the solution is to download the driver from the AMD website (Not from Windows Update) and then to unintsall and reinstall folding @ home client. Here was the chain of events:

1. My computer was folding fine on the AMD RX 480.

2. I then switched out the AMD GPU and switched in a Nvidia Geforce gpu for testing purposes. I reinstalled Folding at home.

3. I then switched the AMD GPU back in and for the life of me I couldn't get the gpu to show up as supported in the folding at home client. It was greyed out regardless of how many times I installed/ uninstalled the folding@home client, trying different versions of folding@home clients, uninstalling the Nvidia gpu driver, uninstalling the driver from windows device manager, reseating the gpu, changing the bios options, etc. Google searches for previous versions of Folding@Home pointed to some issue with OpenCL magic. I don't understand enough about computers to do these complicated debugging things.

4. Only when I tried a clean install of the driver again to override the windows update version did this finally work!

I have to reinstall it to get it to work like EVERY time I reboot. Anyone else have an issue like this?

Windows 10, v8.3.18

Also I just noticed there's a new version, so I'll try that.

my laptops work units keep failing
22:23:01:E :WU20:Core returned BAD_WORK_UNIT (114)
I keep getting errors like these I have 2 gpu's both amd intagrated and my 6800m as well as my 8 core ryzen 9 5900hx
any help would be appreciated.

22:18:09:E :WU16:The folding core did not produce any log output. This indicates that the core is not functional on your system. Check for missing libraries or GPU drivers. Make a post about your issue on https://foldingforum.org/ to get more help.

I also have the latest drivers for amd

1. I completed a work unit, and it was supposed to be uploaded, but then it crashed, and now it's just labeled as "failed" - can I reupload the results?

2. I completed another that said makes 35 million points a day, it took about 2-3 hours to complete, but in the end I only got 600ish thousand. Math doesn't make sense since it comes at around 4 million? Granted, I was just granted these points.

I haven't Folded in a LONG time, I remember taking it a year for me to get anywhere near that number, but still.

Hi I opened my f@h page and noticed that my rtx 3080 is doing 6,6 million ppd instead of the normal 8 million. I first thought it was maybe a program that was taking compute power but after concluding it was not I opened Folding.LAR.Systems to look at all the gpus. Here the 3080 is said to average 6.6 million. I think the ppd just has lowered. Could this be due to the release of the 50 series cards?

https://preview.redd.it/ieiclszkxbee1.png?width=887&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb4694a2cea99b02fa38b095ff8ae6e6272a34d3

Hi, I was trying to do some folding while using my computer for lightweight work, but I'm unable to get it running on my home network. If I connect it to my phone data, it works perfectly fine, but not over ethernet. And I don't want to unplug the ethernet and plug in my phone whenever I want to start it.

I'm on the v8.4 client beta.

Thanks :)

So, I've been completing some work units lately and for some reason I'm not seeing any of them (or PPDs) on my personal stats page. I've got BAN coins credited to my wallet (I'm in the bananominer group) so it seems to be a client-related problem (or delay). I've already set a FaH account up, and even got a passphrase if it matters.

I'm runnign FAH on Win10Pro, newest drivers etc but my GPU is showing as "gfx1030" instead of 6800XT, how to fix? Do I need to install some special drivers?

https://preview.redd.it/74ecyiog3wbe1.png?width=970&format=png&auto=webp&s=081f93c974253aa1a735041542264292db01ef67

Is this an error on my part or is there a way to fix this and use my GPU to fold?

I like it...a little confusing at first but most differnt things are... Im using the windows client..

https://folding.lar.systems/gpu_ppd/overall_ranks

The LAR website shows a 4090 @ 22k PPD and a 4080 super @ 17K PPD.

technical.city already has links that show 5080 vs 4080 and 5080 vs 4090.

How many PPD can a 5080 make?

I am already seeing youtube videos released today that include 5000 series card results.

Has anyone seen folding benchmarks yet ?

Did you find a good way to have Ollama and FAH to play nicely together (in my case, it's Windows 10)?

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone else has experienced the same issue as me:

Whenever I start folding on my CPU, regardless of the mode, I run into a problem with Google Chrome. Randomly, when trying to browse the internet, pages load slowly (you need to wait several minutes sometimes).

At first, I thought it might be due to the process priority being too high, but it’s set to the lowest by default.

Switching the power setting to "Light" reduces how often it happens, but it still occurs. The only workaround I’ve found is to pause folding and then resume, which is inconvenient.

For context, I’m running Windows 11 with a 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900K (3.20 GHz).

Has anyone else experienced this or found a fix?

Thanks in advance for your help!

I just built a new PC with a 4070 Ti, and F@H seems to be not fully utilizing it. PPD is ranging between 4.5M - 9M, whereas I was expecting 10M+. I check GPU performance with MSI Afterburner, and it shows the GPU is only pulling around 100W vs. its max of 285W. Are there settings I should adjust? I have the most recent drivers installed.

I've looked around and I don't know why they can limit the CPU usage between 10% to 100% but for some reason they can't seem to figure out how to do this with GPU usage? I don't want my GPU's running 100% 24/7. I know I can download MSI Afterburner and such but b/c I'm on a laptop it doesn't allow MSI afterburner to customize the settings. I would like to utilize my laptop so that it can fold in the background to do something beneficial for science while I'm basically wasting away my life but at 100% all the time it feels very very hot!

This seems like a very easy task, I even made a work around by enabling the "work only when idle" button on the web client. Then I just have my computer run an automated task of moving the mouse once every 15 mins or something. Then the folding client stops running and waits for idle again. But again, I don't have a computing background! Why can't a team with a professional computing background just design this into their program?

It happens rarely, but our favorite F@H stats page recently got another update: https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/
Reminder also that you can donate to help keep the site afloat!

Currently, I have 3 rigs that spend their time folding, since the electricity is essentially free.

One super small ITX computer that I keep at my parents, which is powered with a solar panel and battery in the outside shed. Integrated graphics and a lower end mid tier cpu. I don't recall the specs, at all.

Then with me, I have an HP Omen D15 laptop with a Ryzen 7 4800H with a 1660 Ti, as well as my primary unit of a Ryzen 7 5800X with RX 7600 gpu.

I was debating on building an matx build to add to the mix, as I have a Ryzen 5 chip just lying around collecting dust, but I don't want to spend too much on the build. AM4 / DDR4.

Anybody know where the lower limit is on GPUs before it's not worth the cost to buy for the purpose of folding? Just doing some research, and was hoping for real world experience from others that fold with multiple rigs.

I have several rigs GPU folding 24/7. I'm thinking about expanding my farm to include another 4090. I'm not sure whether to buy new hardware which could cost around 3k up front + electricity costs over time or rent a 4090 in the Cloud. Does anyone have experience on this topic and care to share your thoughts?

So I've been running FAH for about a year now on this Win11 system just fine. I installed the 24H2 update for Win11, and now it won't launch. It'll launch successfully from a fresh FAH install, but whenever I reboot the PC, it won't launch again. Even trying to launch HideConsole or FAHClient directly does nothing. I see entries in the Startup folder but to no avail. At any rate, it only takes a few seconds to reinstall FAH and get it running again for that boot, and I usually leave my system running for months at a time so it's not a huge deal, I just wanted to see if anyone else had problems with 24H2.

I've been folding for years, I'm part of a top 1000 team and a top 2,500 user. I fold on my 4090 and I just recently lost the bonus points for using a passkey and I can't figure out why. Passkey is still the same it's always been and is entered in my client. Any insights as to why that's gone now?

I've been trying to set my desktop (Windows) up to run F@H and be recognized as a heater in my Home Assistant set-up (Home Assistant OS on RPi). Guides for how to do this aren't hard to find, but they no longer seem to apply. Is there a way to set up an IP whitelist for a LAN IP, so that my Home Assistant instance can send fold/pause/finish commands to my desktop, now that FAHcontrol seems to be gone? I haven't managed to find an option to do this in the web control.

Hello all,

Been folding for about 3 days now with a basic Mac Mini M4 gave it a 12 hour brake in those 3 days and have 14WU’s now.

As far as I know the Mini is already power efficient but would there also me a cheaper option like a budget mini pc/Nuc I can buy to use only for Folding, and is efficient to get as many WU’s in a short time?

Still true?

https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/flops/ says:

[quote]Why are the ATI x86 FLOP numbers half of the ATI native FLOP numbers?

Due to a difference in the implementation (in part due to hardware differences), the ATI code must do two force calculations where the x86, Cell, and NVIDIA hardware need only do one. This increases the overall native FLOP count for ATI hardware, but since these are not useful FLOPS in a sense, we did not include them in the x86 count.[/quote]

Hopefully this is just out of date, and should be removed. If it's still true, "ATI" should be updated to "AMD." (And if it's still true, then that's a bummer.) (If it's out of date, maybe it's worth checking if the rest of that FLOPS FAQ page is up to date, since it's linked from a moderately prominent page.)

The "Contact Us" page sent me to the folding forum; I've also posted there. Can someone get in touch with whomever should update that FAQ page?

Hello

I am trying to get back into the fold and hitting some issues -- the doc's seem to be out of date or the versions of linux im using are too new/not optimal/support?

I am trying to setup ubuntu 22.04 or denian 11 containers in proxmox and run a few instances of folding in my cluster

does anyone have a working guide and know how to get allow remote access so they can be monitored and controlled via my windows workstation?

Thanks in advance.

There was a bug with these Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen CPUs which can burnout after some time. A new BIOS version fixed it.
https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/June-2024-Guidance-regarding-Intel-Core-13th-and-14th-Gen-K-KF/m-p/1607807

[I just looked at the machine details and it's saying the GPUs are unsupported, so there's my answer. I'm posting this anyway to see if there's a workaround or some way to get them added.]

I'm back to F@H after a lengthy hiatus, so a lot has changed. I'm running it (via Brave browser) on a Trashcan Mac Pro, which has dual AMD Firepro D500 GPUs. The F@H client (v8.3.18) shows that I have 2 GPUs enabled, though the client is IDing them as:

Tahiti LE (Radeon HD 7870 XT).

The status monitor is showing that 0 GPUs are engaged.

(Running FaH 8.3.5 in Windows 11, OEM license on my home PC. CPU 13600KF, GPU 7900XT.)

I just got FaH a few days ago, started out without issue. The next day, I tried to start the FaH client and it just... did nothing. Checking in a browser, it either showed the machine disconnected or stuck on "downloading core". I figured what the hell, un- and reinstalled FaH today.

Now, FaH is definitely running. It's hitting all 8 E-cores 100% according to HWInfo and Task Manager, but none of the P-Cores in my CPU are getting hit at all. In the client, this is independent of the allocated CPUs - even if I give it less than 8. Also, the client still shows "Downloading Core" on the CPU.

GPU Compute is at 100%, temps are fine. However, the GPU isn't even showing up as doing anything in the client, even though it's enabled in settings. It's not even showing an active job, core download or anything.

This is independent of the browser used. I've tried Brave, LibreWolf and Chrome. The log file in the doesn't really help me as I don't know what to look for - all I know is it's still tracking some folding progress right now.

So: what's up with the client not displaying what's happening? How do I fix it, and regain control of the folding process?