folding with windows 7

Discussion in 'Software' started by BILLMCC66, May 3, 2009.

  1. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    Does anyone know if Stanford are going to allow folding with the Windows 7 RC because i will download it( to my laptop) on tuesday 5th may and would like to try it on folding with the idea of running it on one of my desktops.
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    I Dont see why not Bill as over at the folding@home official forum, they have topics on Win7 and F@H

    going to install it now myself in Win7 x64 RC
     
  3. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    Thanks David.
    I am really eager to try it.
    As a Vista lover i read your comments about this new OS and if it's half as good as you find then i will be happy.
     
  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    F@H works fine in Win7 RC, already sent one WU back.

    As for Win7, while will admit I'm a bit of a fan of Windows, I do feel that this one is one of the better ones, double checked all the bugs I had submitted and all fixed, know I'm going to now struggle to find a showstopper bug! installed all my general use software and all working fine.
     
  5. augiedoggie

    augiedoggie The Canadian Loon - LocoAugie (R.I.P. 2012)

    I'm GPU folding now with W7 X64 and the only issue that I had was that I couldn't OC my 9800GT cards with the nVidia 185.81 W7 beta drivers using RivaTuner to up the shader clock, or anything else for that fact.

    I did solve it by installing the Vista 185.81 drivers. They went in as smooth as silk and I'm folding away as happy as a swine in mud!rolleyes:-D Now to get VM SMP going and I'll be all set.

    Oh, the main reason I'm doing this on my main rig is that apparently we have a 13 month trial as per ComputerWorld and Engadget stories, however one of my friends checked the 'About W7' and he shows that it ends on March 1st.

    Either way, 10 months is good enough for someone that might reinstall several times a year if not more!:-D Besides, I want to really take this on a test drive as I'm liking W7 RC very much!
     
  6. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    Re boot your pc and when it starts up go into your setup (normally continually clicking F10) in your setup at the top you will see a bar using the arrow keys move it until "advanced"is highlighted press enter and look down the list until you see "virtualization" highlight it and press enter select "enable"the exit and save.
     

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