Folding Update For MAXWELL Owners

[Whaler_99]

The team stanford realeased an update about Folding on those Maxwell cards:

 

https://folding.stanford.edu/home/upgraded-maxwell-support-for-core17/

 

You need to set your flag to "advanced" to get these new ones. If you have any issues, remove the flag.

 

Name: client-type
Value: advanced
This will tell the slot to check for, and download if available, any "advanced" Core/Projects that may be available to it. Typically when a Core/Project is done with Beta testing, it moves to Advanced availability for more testing, before being put into general distribution.

 

Please see the FAQ http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/207857-for-folding-users-tips-tricks-and-faq-updated-aug-2014/ for more details

 

 

[miyabwah]

thank you for this, i have a 750 ti and have failed WUs because of Maxwell's lack of support. i will try this out

[Me1z]

When we were having issues with core 17 back in March I had a feeling that this is exactly what would happen. Nvidia would procrastinate and push off fixing the driver issue until they had high-end variants with a much larger target market. The amount of people bothered by GTX 750tis not having full functionality is minuscule compared to the potential tsunami of irritated GTX 980/70/60 owners.

[Whaler_99]

Also make sure if you run ADV that you also install the latest drivers.

[Me1z]

Also make sure if you run ADV that you also install the latest drivers.

 

I just double checked and for some reason Nvidia won't offer version 344.16 for GTX 750(ti)s, the 'latest' for them is 344.11 which was released less than a week prior. Do you think the newer driver will cause any issues if I install it anyway?

[Whaler_99]

I just double checked and for some reason Nvidia won't offer version 344.16 for GTX 750(ti)s, the 'latest' for them is 344.11 which was released less than a week prior. Do you think the newer driver will cause any issues if I install it anyway?

 

I honestly don't know. Come on, what could it possibly hurt to try??

[Me1z]

I honestly don't know. Come on, what could it possibly hurt to try??

 

Yeah, I got nothing. I doubt Nvidia would release a driver without support for one of their more recent GPUs, so it will probably be fine.

[FloRolf]

i need 970/980 owners trying this out ASAP!

[2mbur2n]

Nice. Thanks for the update.

[Alexdaman]

i need 970/980 owners trying this out ASAP!

 

I will try it this evening 

[FloRolf]

I will try it this evening 

 

sooooo, how was your evening? ^^

[Alexdaman]

sooooo, how was your evening? ^^

 

sorry to be so noob , but how do you change it in adv? 

[tobben]

sorry to be so noob , but how do you change it in adv? 

go into the advanced client and click on configure in the top left corner, click on the slots tab and click on your gpu slot, then edit. At the bottom you should see extra slot options, click add and type in client-type first then advanced second.

 

although i, aswell as a bunch of other people are currently unable to do core 17 wu's with gtx 970/980, i tried the advanced flag and it didn't do squat.

[ERSCreeper]

Testing it now, I have been getting 280-290K on my GTX 980. Will see what I get now.

[ERSCreeper]

go into the advanced client and click on configure in the top left corner, click on the slots tab and click on your gpu slot, then edit. At the bottom you should see extra slot options, click add and type in client-type first then advanced second.

 

although i, aswell as a bunch of other people are currently unable to do core 17 wu's with gtx 970/980, i tried the advanced flag and it didn't do squat.

Yeah, I just tested it. Doesn't seem to process the file, it will download, hang then remove and redownload a new WU.

18:38:03:WU00:FS01:Download complete18:38:03:WU00:FS01:Received Unit: id:00 state:DOWNLOAD error:NO_ERROR project:9406 run:515 clone:0 gen:84 core:0x17 unit:0x0000009d0a3b1e5c533e281da0d83a8218:38:03:WU00:FS01:Starting18:38:03:WU00:FS01:Running FahCore: "C:\Program Files (x86)\FAHClient/FAHCoreWrapper.exe" C:/Users/Nicholas/AppData/Roaming/FAHClient/cores/web.stanford.edu/~pande/Win32/AMD64/NVIDIA/Fermi/Core_17.fah/FahCore_17.exe -dir 00 -suffix 01 -version 704 -lifeline 1268 -checkpoint 15 -gpu 0 -gpu-vendor nvidia18:38:03:WU00:FS01:Started FahCore on PID 412418:38:03:WU00:FS01:Core PID:416418:38:03:WU00:FS01:FahCore 0x17 started18:38:04:WU00:FS01:0x17:*********************** Log Started 2014-10-05T18:38:03Z ***********************18:38:04:WU00:FS01:0x17:Project: 9406 (Run 515, Clone 0, Gen 84)18:38:04:WU00:FS01:0x17:Unit: 0x0000009d0a3b1e5c533e281da0d83a8218:38:04:WU00:FS01:0x17:CPU: 0x0000000000000000000000000000000018:38:04:WU00:FS01:0x17:Machine: 118:38:04:WU00:FS01:0x17:Reading tar file state.xml18:38:04:WU00:FS01:0x17:Reading tar file system.xml18:38:05:WU00:FS01:0x17:Reading tar file integrator.xml18:38:05:WU00:FS01:0x17:Reading tar file core.xml18:38:05:WU00:FS01:0x17:Digital signatures verified18:38:05:WU00:FS01:0x17:Folding@home GPU core1718:38:05:WU00:FS01:0x17:Version 0.0.5218:39:47:WU01:FS00:0xa4:Completed 450000 out of 5000000 steps  (9%)18:40:14:WU00:FS01:0x17:ERROR:exception: Force RMSE error of 436.06 with threshold of 518:40:14:WU00:FS01:0x17:Saving result file logfile_01.txt18:40:14:WU00:FS01:0x17:Saving result file log.txt18:40:14:WU00:FS01:0x17:Folding@home Core Shutdown: BAD_WORK_UNIT18:40:15:WARNING:WU00:FS01:FahCore returned: BAD_WORK_UNIT (114 = 0x72)18:40:15:WU00:FS01:Sending unit results: id:00 state:SEND error:FAULTY project:9406 run:515 clone:0 gen:84 core:0x17 unit:0x0000009d0a3b1e5c533e281da0d83a8218:40:15:WU00:FS01:Uploading 2.24KiB to 171.64.65.5618:40:15:WU00:FS01:Connecting to 171.64.65.56:808018:40:16:WU00:FS01:Upload complete18:40:16:WU02:FS01:Connecting to 171.67.108.201:8018:40:16:WU00:FS01:Server responded WORK_ACK (400)18:40:16:WU00:FS01:Cleaning up18:40:17:WU02:FS01:Assigned to work server 171.64.65.5618:40:17:WU02:FS01:Requesting new work unit for slot 01: READY gpu:0:GM204 [GeForce GTX 980] from 171.64.65.5618:40:17:WU02:FS01:Connecting to 171.64.65.56:808018:40:19:WU02:FS01:Downloading 5.25MiB18:40:25:WU02:FS01:Download 5.95%18:40:31:WU02:FS01:Download 11.90%18:40:37:WU02:FS01:Download 16.66%18:40:43:WU02:FS01:Download 22.61%18:40:50:WU02:FS01:Download 29.75%18:40:57:WU02:FS01:Download 36.89%18:41:03:WU02:FS01:Download 41.65%18:41:10:WU02:FS01:Download 45.22%18:41:16:WU02:FS01:Download 48.79%