Optimized Apps

The command line program increased speed because Windows 95 and Windows 98 were simply shell programs running on top of DOS 7 and DOS 7.10 respectively, and therefore more speed was gained through running under DOS.

The Windows NT series, including Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 all have a "DOS shell", but it is not the real DOS, and therefore the raw power provided by the original DOS is not there anymore.

The closest you can get is to install BOINC as a system service (a.k.a. "Protected Mode" in BOINC v6.x) and not run the BOINC Manager at startup, but that will not net you very much of a performance boost since the BOINC Manager consumes very little CPU time (the CPU is only used when the BOINC Manager window is opened, and even less when run in the system tray).

As for the optimized application, things are getting much easier these days. First, you should run CPU-Z to determine the maximum capability of your CPU (i.e. what's the highest level SSE instruction set supported by your CPU), then download the 32bit Unified Installer from Lunatics here, run it and select the appropriate options discovered when running CPU-Z. Reboot and all should be well.
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The replica database server that is taking care of showing tasks and credit is offline. You'll have to wait for it to come back on line.

Shouldn't there be some notice about that when viewing those pages?

I have systems with dual NVIDIA FX5200 graphics cards, can I run an optimized ap and get WU for both graphics adapters? Will any NVIDIA card work or is there a prefered model for best performance?

Raistmers app helps eliminate teh VLAR WU's that are slow to process on CUDA cards. It also does something with multiple CUDA cards which escapes me at the moment.
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Wait..so there's a optimized Seti app for us GPU folders? Link?

Okay..I looked at your site and I'm confused as to which one I need..I don't run the CPU WU's on the GPU cruncher I have..but I also don't want to go fiddling around with xml files or what not.

I'm sure there is a guide somewhere for this?

EDIT: I believe I found it..but I selected all 3 for it to install ..being that I thought you could control what your computer crunches in my Seti control menu on the site here?

Re-running the installer and changing your options will remove the apps you don't want.
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Since BOINC does not show GPU time, you won't notice an improvement if you're watching the estimated time to completion metric. You'd have to wait and see you're RAC increase in the long run.

As a note that I probably should have mentioned, but the optimized CUDA app forces an error on all VLAR CUDA workunits that are the most intensive (which usually cause screen stuttering on many machines).

At any rate, if you don't want to use the optimized app, all you need to do is remove the app_info.xml file in the proper directory, and where that director is located depends on the OS and BOINC version being used. The folders are usually hidden by default, so you won't be able to find them by browsing to them.

For BOINC v6.x under Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu

For BOINC v6.x under Windows Vista:

C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu

For BOINC v5, all OSes:

C:\Program Files\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu

For BOINC v5 32bit on a 64bit OS:

C:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC\projects\setiathome.berkeley.edu
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The optimized CUDA software was written to rejects VLAR WU because they take excessive time to process on CUDA compared to other angle ranges.

Upgrade the new Boinc V6.6.31 and that should reduce the CUDA WU switching.
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Boinc V6.10.17 Recommended
WinXP C2D 2.1G 3GB

I'm going to go ahead and try the optimized app again and see how my RAC goes..but I just thought of this..if the optimized app can't crunch some WU's why does it bother asking for them from the Seti server? Seems like a complete waste of resources..

As far as I'm aware, there's no ETA yet. An official AP app for CUDA hasn't even been released at this point.
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rt click on the start button then tools/folder options/view/hidden file and folders/show hidden files and folders click ok and close. yous should be able to see the folder now
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Hm..tried doing what you said right click start button and tools was not there? I just found a different way though..in the window of Documents and Settings, I clicked on Tools/Folder Options and found it there to unlock all folders..

I thought that was already disabled in XP..guess not