Old time DC'er but new PS3 owner

[Robor]

I have F@H running and according to the client I'm 'robor007' on 'Team 198' so I think it's configured correctly. My question is, with the PS3 client do I have to be 'in' the F@H application or will it process in the background if I'm doing something else like streaming music? When I try to leave the client screen it asks me if I want to quit. Will that stop processing?

 

[jonesthewine]

You have to initiate the program to fold, and exit the program to do most anything else besides download in the background. If you are watching a movie, playing a game, browsing the PS3 store, listening to music or looking at photos streamed in from a PC you are not folding.

 

[Neurodog]

Sadly as mentioned above, the client will not run when you are not in the F@H application.

The PS3 is a good cruncher but it's far behind the Nvidia GPU client.

I've turned my PS3 off for the summer as it tends to warmup our living room pretty quick.

 

[Robor]

Ah, ok. Thanks for the feedback guys. I'll just leave it in the application so it continues folding while I'm not using it.

 

[Assimilator1]

Good to see you crunching again mate 🙂.

Btw I believe what Neurodog said about the Nvidia clients only refers to the very latest graphic cards from the 8800 & 9x00 series.

 

[Viper GTS]

Set the folding app to run automatically when idle, & then whenever you want to use it for something else you can just exit out. You don't even need to bother restarting it, just exit your other activity & walk away.

If you're using a Harmony remote or something like that just tell it you want to leave the PS3 on at all times. It will do about 1K PPD, slightly better than 1/6th what a moderately overclocked 8800GTS will do.

Viper GTS