Folding@Home - Performance effects

[FrankV]

I, off and on, have used folding at home on my main gaming computer. I do office work during the day and then game late at night on the computer. Said computer is reasonably powerful (i7 7600k, GTX 1070 both overclocked and cooled by custom water loop). The thing is anytime I've run Folding@Home, it's had a clear effect on the video performance of my computer. I narrowed it down to my video card. I'm mainly referring to Chrome with YouTube or chrome in general. Even typing this right now I see lag that I shouldn't see. 

 

Is there anything I can do to adjust Folding@Home so it's less impactful to my office work? 

 

I'd prefer not to use "idle" only because frankly, my computer is usually only on when I'm using it. It's that during the day office work where I can donate my compute cycles. Otherwise the computer is off or I'm in a game. 

 

Any tips or insight appreciated. 

[TheRandomness]

Nope. You cannot set folding at home to only work on a certain amount of cores in the GPU. It's either all or nothing. 

[Arika]

if you're using the computer you shoudn't be mining/folding on it at the same time. 

[FrankV]

16 minutes ago, Sierra Fox said:

if you're using the computer you shoudn't be mining/folding on it at the same time. 

Says who?

[Arika]

1 hour ago, FrankV said:

Says who?

logic. it's what your problem is caused by.

[rn8686]

2 hours ago, Sierra Fox said:

if you're using the computer you shoudn't be mining/folding on it at the same time. 

It works fine for me while I mine (Dont fold that much), I can still do basic web browsing and watch videos in SD (Internet bandwidth cap isnt enough for constant HD anyway). 

[Ithanul]

3 hours ago, Sierra Fox said:

logic. it's what your problem is caused by.

You can fold and mine even when using the computer.  I do so myself.  Heck, I do F@H and BOINC at the same time while browsing and watching videos.  You just have to know how to set the applications.

 

I really don't use Chrome, so not sure how the browser is using the GPU.  Unless, it may be the GPU acceleration.  Maybe there is a setting for turning that off in Chrome.

 

I would install and Chrome on my rig to find out.  But, overseas at the moment, so, no where near my rig at the moment.

[FrankV]

On 7/8/2017 at 3:43 AM, Ithanul said:

I really don't use Chrome, so not sure how the browser is using the GPU.  Unless, it may be the GPU acceleration.  Maybe there is a setting for turning that off in Chrome.

It does use the GPU; it's a unique aspect of Chrome. Perhaps I'll try Firefox for a while

[Ithanul]

6 hours ago, FrankV said:

It does use the GPU; it's a unique aspect of Chrome. Perhaps I'll try Firefox for a while

I found the steps for turning it off in Chrome.

1. Open Chrome
2. Enter chrome://settings into the address bar
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the "advanced settings" link
4. More options will appear. Scroll down again to the bottom of the page
5. Under the "System" heading there will be an option called "Use hardware acceleration when available". Remove the tick from the checkbox.
6. The words "requires Chrome restart" will appear. Click on the "restart" link
7. Enter chrome://gpu into the address bar

That should show the acceleration turned off.

Really wish these applications put a nice little easy to find box for turning crap like that off.