Ktulu

Hey guys!

I really love folding! I have a computer (see sig) at my house dedicated to it and I am pulling in about 1500-2000 PPD on my Nvidia 9500 GT.

I am running GPU2 in XP and I overclocked the shaders to 1750. I used the guide floating around here to do it and found the shader straps (50mhz) and ran ATI tool to check for artifacts. It ran for 3 hours at 1750mhz with no artifacts. At 1800mhz it was artifacting right away. So I have the shaders as hi as they will go at 1750mhz.

Here is my Folding History. Some days I have 1000 ppd, other days of the week I have 3000 PPD. The computer is not being used for anything except my mom goes on it for a few hours a day and does emails. She doesn't watch any videos, doesn't play games, or does anything graphic intensive. The computer is on 24/7(upon her request) so I am wondering how I can consistently up my PPD.

Is there another folding client I could use?

My drivers are like version 170 I think, I don't think changing them would make too much difference, but what do I know.

What can I do (for free IE: Not buy another card) to up my PPD?

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xxbassplayerxx

Have you tried setting the priority of your client to realtime? If it won't allow that, try high.

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Micam93

That, and try other driver versions; they can make a difference. I usually just use the latest driver, unless I hear that it's particularly bad.

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Mikecdm

There probably isnt' much that you can do. As mentioned, new drivers might help. I know there was a time when new drivers used up less cpu resources. I don't know when it was, but it very well could have been after 170.xx.

You can also try folding on the cpu. You might be able to get a couple hundred out of it.

The reason that your points fluctuate so much is probably due to the 1888pt jobs. I bet they take nearly a day to complete with that card.

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grishkathefool

you can try using the -advmethods tag. Also, when I started using the -forceasm tag with GPU2 I went up a few hundred ppd on average.

You could consider running a CPU client too.

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BlackOmega

Definitely update your driver. The 170 series drivers are good but not great for folding or even gaming for that matter.

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xxbassplayerxx

If I recall, the 185.xx drivers were pretty good for F@H. I could be making that up, though.

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BlackOmega

They were. I still haven't updated my folding rigs from the 186.xx drivers. But I did notice that it made a difference when I went from the 170 series drivers. Although, the 170 drivers were WAY better for visual quality ingame. Although you did take a pretty big frame rate hit.

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dominique120

I dont see an OC on your rig, try a heavy OC and see if that gives you some extra ppd, also get the 185.xxx drivers

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k4m1k4z3

there is apparently a heavy OC on the card.
The single core CPU just isn't going to bring in very much extra points... even with overclocking it.