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[caz223]

It took 3 tries to get it to fully installed.
I hope it runs with less bugs than it installed with.
If it hangs up with 50% to go, give it time.
I gave mine an hour, but it wasn't responding.
Then when I uninstalled it, I just uninstalled nvidia drivers in the control panel. If you don't want it to continually hang up at 50%, uninstall the physx driver AND the nvidia display drivers, and it should install.

[caz223]

It's all better and I think it works better for gaming than the other CUDA drivers I've tried. Just the physX drivers make it take forrever to install the first time.

[redbeardeddevil]

I have the new 177.84 drivers installed now. Got them from the CUDA site. They don't come with the PhysX drivers packaged. Seem to be a bit more stable than the the previous ones. I am not getting any errors now.

[powerarmour]

There are also 177.92 beta's available :-

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/new-for ... 71908.html

Though not sure what difference (if any..?) they may make to folding performance/stability.

[redbeardeddevil]

I installed them briefly on my wife's machine(single gpu) and didn't like the way they acted. I went back to 177.84. Since I started using these I haven't had any issues with the gpu client.

[powerarmour]

GPU2 setup guide :-

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegrou ... inGPUGuide

[powerarmour]

New 6.20r1 GPU2 client :-

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther

[redbeardeddevil]

"This build hopefully fixes the occasional upload timeout that people have also reported with the GPU client. This is an early stage beta, which means that it went through only very brief closed beta testing.

Also, note, these are drop-in replacements only, not full installers etc. You just need to unzip the appropriate file and use it to replace your existing client."

As this doesn't apply to me I will wait for the next build.

[powerarmour]

MemtestG80 released for Nvidia GPU's :-

MemtestG80 is a software-based tester to test for "soft errors" in GPU memory or logic for NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs. It uses a variety of proven test patterns (some custom and some based on Memtest86) to verify the correct operation of GPU memory and logic. It is a useful tool to ensure that given GPUs do not produce "silent errors" which may corrupt the results of a computation without triggering an overt error.

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/here-vp ... tml#627735

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=9767

[powerarmour]

Open beta release of the GPU3 core :-

We have a new GPU core (core 15) going into an open beta test for NVIDIA clients. This core requires a new client (see below) as well as the latest drivers (197.45). This core is the first run of the GPU3 technology, derived from the OpenMM project at Stanford (http://simtk.org/home/openmm). You can find more information in our GPU3 FAQ (see url below).

While this release is for NVIDIA only to start, we are actively pushing ATI support (with the help of AMD/ATI), although we have no ETA at the moment. We do not recommend that you use this client with an ATI GPU at the moment since there is no advantage and you are potentially exposing yourself to new bugs.

This is the first open beta test of this new client and core, so there are likely bugs to be found as more donors try this out on more diverse sets of hardware. Also, the documentation (GPU3 FAQ) is new too and there are possibly some errors there too. However, the client has been QA'd both internally at Stanford and with our closed group of beta testers and is looking pretty good so far.

Some testers in the closed beta test have found problems with 8800 and 9800 class GPUs (we are working on this).

http://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=14671