Is it quite simple to install an individual optimised application?

When I installed Lunatics 0.41, I allowed both CPU and GPU for MB7 but only GPU for AP. I now want to allow AP CPU as well and I was going to do this by installing AP6-CPU-X64-r2163 from Mike's World.

I assume it's quite a simple task but over my computer career I've screwed up quite a few times by assuming my assumptions are correct and I'm a bit nervous of losing my existing tasks.<G>

So is it fairly easy or would it be safer to rerun the full installer instead?

BTW I'm running BOINC 6.10.60.

Rick

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Typically the "safe" way of doing this is before changing anything at all, on the menu bar, Activity > Network Activity Suspended. Just for good measure, go over to the project tab and No New Tasks.

Close down BOINC and make sure everything has stopped (verified in task manager). Make a copy of the entire data directory (C:\ProgramData\BOINC, by default) and put it somewhere else (can just be on the desktop or on a flash drive or anywhere..it is a safety back-up and can be deleted if all goes to plan).

Run the Lunatics installer, or manually edit app_info.xml and throw the EXE in the right place. Start BOINC back up. See if everything resumes as you expected it to. If it does, allow new tasks, resume network activity, and new APs should start coming in for CPU when they are available.

If you start getting mass errors.. Start trying to figure out why by the message tab. If you mess things up.. delete the data directory, copy your back-up back in-place and start over and try again.

Only allow network communications once you are satisfied that it works. Otherwise you'll lose all of your tasks and your daily quota will plummet.

The down-side to running the installer again is if you have customized or tweaked any of the command-line parameters for the GPU apps, the installer will over-write those (I believe). So you will have to replace those CLI files/parameters before starting BOINC up again.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

Thanks. Everything went fine.

Rick

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