F@H GPU client problem - this is driving me nuts

[frostedflakes]

Recently have been messing around with folding a bit. Installed the GPU2 systray client like a week or two and it worked fine, but decided to uninstall it. Then I went to reinstall it and now the darn thing won't work. Keeps getting stuck on "attempting to get work packet"

I think maybe my queue got screwed up and this is causing the client not to be able to get new WUs. But the weird thing is I can't seem to completely uninstall the program and reset the queue. I uninstall the GPU client via the Windows uninstall program control panel menu. Then I go through and make sure the Program Files folding@home folder is deleted, the work folder is deleted, and the f@h folder in the AppData\Roaming folder is deleted. Then I also go into the registry and delete anything with folding@home in it as well as all the PandeGroup keys.

And yet for some reason, when I reinstall the GPU client after deleting what I believe to be every conceivable trace to the old install on my computer, somehow my old settings are still retained (for example the queue is still full will the same messed up WUs and settings like team number are already there without me having to enter them) and the problems persist.

What am I missing? How the heck do you reset the f@h GPU client to default settings? Or any other suggestions for the issue I'm having? This is really bugging me, I'm at a complete loss here. :/

 

[imaheadcase]

I wish they would just let it install in its own single folder. Make things easier.

I had something like that happen, did you check other users folders? Mine installed in admin one, plus a user one in roaming folder and had to delete both.

 

[frostedflakes]

Good call, I didn't even think of that, might be the problem. Will try checking other user folders.

edit: Doesn't seem to be the case for me, though, doesn't look like there are any f@h folders in other users directories. 🙁

edit 2: Weird, seems to be working now. Not even sure what I did, guess reinstalling for the 20th time did the trick. This GPU client is wonky.

 

[petrusbroder]

I have a similar problem with one of my GPU-clients; on one computer only - the others (same OS, same GPU-client, same settings, same folders, same everything including CPU, GPU, RAM, etc) work very well and without a hitch.
I have to restart the computer now and then for it to get new WUs and then - sometimes - for it to send it to the server.

 

[frostedflakes]

Well think I might have figured out the problem. The GPU client seems to store work files and stuff like that in the Program Files (x86) directory. The problem I guess is that the GPU client can't write to this directory unless it's run in administrator mode, and this was causing the issues I was having.