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[russkris]

Thanks mate....


Ni!

[Urs Echternacht]

I have no problems with it.. Dont really know what the prob is.. thats him.. I will let you know, if anything changes

Just a few points to check locally, so yours can be sure the optimized application is really running:
1. on windows open the taskmanager's process list and look for the name of the application. That should be the same as the name of the application put into the projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu folder. Otherwise stock might still be running.
2. on all boinc versions open the slots/x folder (x = 0,1,...). There should be a link named same as the opt. application put into the projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu folder. If that link has still the name of the stock application stock is still used.
3. if sure that the correct optimized application is used, watch Boinc in advanced view while a computation error occurs. Right after the computation error has happened stop Boinc with File/Exit. Goto the slots/x folder that was used for crunching the erroneous work unit. Open the stderr.txt file with an editor (notepad, wordpad or similar). What error messages are listed there ?

[russkris]

he has the SSE2 version crunching with no errors. but he cant see any improvement...

maybe running the wrong version?

[Jason G]

I guess the next question might be "What is he looking at and seeing no improvement?" ... The only really valid comparisons are same angle range tasks' cpu time, and it couldn't really have been crunching long enough to accumulate some of the same angle range, for comparison,  as was run with the stock application could it ?

RAC ( Recent Average Credit ) takes about three weeks to rise & stabilise  if that's what he's looking at ...

[russkris]

I dont really know to tell you the truth... Possible daily output, via the TN stats site

[Jason G]

Yeah that would take a couple of days to show change,  If it seems to be crunching without error I'd give it time. Sounds like it is doing the job 

[russkris]

Thats what I said... It's been a week

[russkris]

What about my mate run that benchmark program.. you know the one that runs and tells you what op'd file to use
. where do I find that?

[Jason G]

I think you may be referring to the installer from the 2.2B package.  That is outdated and there has been no such Installer made for 2.4 or 2.4V clients. 

The current best correct means of selecting the application is to examine the CPU specifications using such as CPU-Z and choose the right one by name... Naturally there may be some problem with the machine, its configuration or the incorrect app may be in use. We have no way to establish if this is or isn't the case, and would be guessing.