cw8: Anyone actually using this? Supposedly you contribute your computer/gfx power to generate some protein folding algorithm which sends the results to them.

http://folding.stanford.edu/

I tried running the program whilst playing alongside Deus Ex: MK with a Geforce 1060 at medium. It halves the framerate. Low seems fine.

cw8: Yes... unfortunately. You see that shop option right off the main menu while playing single player. It's a big thorn in my efforts of trying to enjoy the game.

richlind33: Is it true that Deus Ex: MD has single player microtransactions? o.O

dtgreene: From what I understand, the situation is actually even worse; those microtransactions are consumable and only work for one playthrough. If you want to do another playthrough with the things you get from microtransactions, you need to pay for them *again*.

cw8: Anyone actually using this? Supposedly you contribute your computer/gfx power to generate some protein folding algorithm which sends the results to them.

cw8: I tried running the program whilst playing alongside Deus Ex: MK with a Geforce 1060 at medium. It halves the framerate. Low seems fine

richlind33: Is it true that Deus Ex: MD has single player microtransactions? o.O

dtgreene: From what I understand, the situation is actually even worse; those microtransactions are consumable and only work for one playthrough. If you want to do another playthrough with the things you get from microtransactions, you need to pay for them *again*.

Crewdroog: ewwww. good to know.Crewdroog: and that's even worse. blarg.

richlind33: I was watching a Gameranx review that left me interested. Then I started reading comments and saw the pink elephant that the arsehole had neglected to mention. o.O

So what's a microtransaction going for these days?

rtcvb32: I've used folding for years. Donating leftover cycles, generally my computer's on all the time anyways. Although recently I stopped after donating... quite a bit of time.

How much it's helped I couldn't say, I only have some fancy papers I can print out clarifying I've donated XXX cycles.

As for using the GPU, I never could get the GPU options to work, even on my gaming rig WITH a good GPU on it. So... *shrugs*


Set to low/idle when you're using the computer. I think you can even set a schedule for when the application is running. Low runs at 25%, medium at 50% and full at 100%. (The percentages is closer to how many of your cores are used rather than how much processing they are throttled) The process is always set at lowest priority, so if you aren't doing anything too intensive you won't notice it working. While games and heavy processing will likely take a hit.

cw8: Oh thanks for the info. I thought it was a new project. Think I'll let it run on medium when I'm away from the keyboard. Full seems taxing on the graphics card, it's new and I'll hate for it to be damaged.