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SombraGuerrero wrote:Yeah, unfortunately that's not an option for 1050 Ti users.

Yes, and no. It is possible to edit the INF file to make it work. Mentioned in this thread somewhere.

Read the Blog. Successes are also documented on the Papers page of the FAH web site, linked above.

In my view, BOINC was designed with the "lowest common denominator" in mind, to work with as many types of projects as possible, not really specialized for performance. One size fits as many as we can. On the other hand, FAH hasn't been saddled with those kinds of restraints, having launch...

Additional data validation costs running 2 sets of code as well, making sure NV and AMD return the same results.

#1, same as foldy.
#2 Yes, same as foldy, and an update installed by Windows may later be needed by a newer version of the FAH client at some future point. .Net as example.

Elsewhere it has been said that:- But Folders are noticing a 100K-300K drop in Folding points per card with these drivers. thats because theres a bug in the fah_core that needs resolving, the nvidia side fix was a work around that reduces performance. Because the points curve is so steep in the fas...

Old school FAH WIKI still has some basic info to explain things.

http://codepoint.net/index.php/Glossary

http://codepoint.net/index.php/Cores

http://codepoint.net/index.php/Runs,_Clones_and_Gens

foldy wrote:I understand that the bus usage limit on fast GPUs is a problem with pcie 3.0 x1 on Windows but not on Linux.

Understand this how, please?

There were reports a pcie 2.0 x4 slot could limit the bus usage on Windows but not on Linux for a fast GPU and so you could loose e.g. 20% performance but it is still worth it. I doubt there is much difference between the OS types. And I ran a GTX 760 in an x16 2.0 slot (x1 electrically) and only l...

In other words, shader speed and count are the gating factors (bottle-neck) for FAH performance, so memory speed has little impact on performance, as noted above.

Research is their first priority, development falls below that, so they tend to focus on the lowest hanging and largest fruit on the performance tree. They have to ignore the fruit that has been sitting on the ground for too long as well. 15+ years of watching how the project functions gives bruce v...

Thanks. Regardless of original intent, both options are worthy of note.

Progress is progress. Not folding at all, and now folding is progress. I don't think anyone will mistake a hotfix driver for a WHQL driver.

hobbz wrote:The hotfix driver folded Core_21 units all night with no issues (GTX 1080, Windows 10 build 14986).

Any performance hit, or same PPD?

Just in case anybody was interested, they have released a hotfix driver which apparently has the workaround fix for F@H until the guys here can fix the bug it "apparently" exposed by the newer drivers. You can grab it here: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4288 So far so...