*** Client V5.02 is out ***

[Allan]

Stanford have just released an update to the V5.00 client.

From the change log:
5.02:
- Error checking on queue, related to big packet option.

Get your update right here:
http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html

[LP]

Allan, if you're not running big wu's, is this a necessary update?

[mookydooky]

Dammit! I just got done loading 5.00 on all my machines!!!!

[LP]

Originally Posted by mookydooky

Dammit! I just got done loading 5.00 on all my machines!!!!

That was kind of my thoughts too. I just said it differently.

[Toro]

im glad im too lazy to have updated all my folders

[Allan]

No, if you're not doing big WU's this update isn't necessary. At least it should not be.

[robbie]

Well, I only have three boxes and 4 clients to update. hopefully 5-6 soon.
Rob

[LP]

Originally Posted by Allan

No, if you're not doing big WU's this update isn't necessary. At least it should not be.

Ok, thank you.
I'm not looking forward to upgrading the program any more than I have to.

[RussianMissile1]

so what exactrly does this update do?

[Lazgoat]

Any reason I should upgrade from v3.24?

Laz.

[alexkerhead]

Just to upgrade I guess, I see no other reason, other than it has more "bugs" worked out..

[keithwalton]

My p4 is running 5.00 with dual big units and the last few days it's had a few units abort at random points, one was at 80 somthing % another at 20 somthing and some more at 10 somthing %. It could possibly be a fix for this. They could do with forcing the new core to be downloaded as the laptop is running verson 1.68 (fahcore_78 sse core, it got it the other day) whilst the p4 is running 1.67 in both instances which is a few months older.
The P4 is doing nothing but big units atm so there is probably a surplus of them if you have the ram to spare (150megs each) go flick the switch
It's a good thing i've got a gig of ram in the p4, as windows now sits idle (other than folding) with 550 megs of ram used (300 going to the fold)

K

[dC2002]

Anyone tried this new version with windows xp sp2 ? for me it crashes after running for about 2 secs.

[Allan]

I'm running the new version, but not with SP2, sorry.

[keithwalton]

two boxes running it fine here with sp2 total of 3 clients all stable so far. note console version on all

[Logan]

It crashes like crazy on any XP Home version I run it on, but my XP Pro rig runs it without a hitch. I've had the random restart as well from different points, but as long as I don't "open" the graphic window it keeps running just fine. I think I'm running 5.0 on my P4 machine and it gives me no problems, so I am just going to leave it alone as it's the only machine I can count on constant uninterrupted output from since I don't game on it anymore.

[Gizmo]

I haven't had it crash randomly on my XP Pro box with SP2. It always crashes predictably.

Any time I open the GUI, it crashes. So I don't open the GUI.

[Toro]

down with the GUI! thats what i say!

[dC2002]

Using console version now.. works fine... seems the gui version has problems with sp2