[Solaris17]

Ok first we need to do some work....if you havent already go into your control panel


go to folder options

Go to the veiw tab

Check "Show hidden files and folders".

and uncheck "hide extensions for known file types"

no its time so set this up

Go to "My computer"

and go into the windows drive



Now go to Documents and settings



now that your in documents and settings go to YOUR folder

once inside your folder their will be a hidden folder called "Application Data"



once inside application data

you will see were the F@H work is done....



we want to right click on this and select rename after we do that COPY the name dont change it. After you copy the name of the folder right click and make a new one. when it prompts you to enter a name paste the one you just copyied and simply add a "2" to the end.



After youve done this...go into the original "Folding@home-gpu" folder and COPY everything in it.

than paste it in the folder you just made "Folding@home-gpu2"

now that were done with application data we go to our desktops

make sure the client is off....and delete all shortcuts to it from your desktop and startup folder in the start menu..were going to make new ones....

now right click on your desktop and select "New">"shortcut"



after youve done that its time to have some fun.

what we do now is when the shortcut windows pops up we browse to the primary F@H exe and select it.



after we select it we need to modify the "Target" line a little bit what were goping to do is Click next now type the following exactly as i have it below their will be a space inbetween the "-" in the code and the last "e" in .exe

-gpu 0

it will look like this


now do the same thing with a second shart cut..only this time were are going to write

-gpu 1

now that that is done we have to modify a few more things...first make sure your shortcuts are numbered..like F@H1 and F@H2 this is IMPERATIVE

now that that is done...copy the following into you respective..Target and Shortcut sections...under the shortcuts properties...you can do this by right clicking and going to properties.



In the "Target" feild of shortcut 1 type the following

"x:\Program Files\Folding@home\Folding@home-gpu\Folding@home.exe" -gpu 0 
were "x" is your install directory

In the "Start in" feild type the following

"x:\Documents and Settings\Solaris17\Application Data\Folding@home-gpu"
were "x" is your install directory

Now that we have done that your good now time to work on short cut #2

the steps are the same so im going to be lazy and simply type the feild code.

In the "Target" feild of shortcut 1 type the following

"x:\Program Files\Folding@home\Folding@home-gpu\Folding@home.exe" -gpu 1 
were "x" is your install directory

In the "Start in" feild type the following

"x:\Documents and Settings\Solaris17\Application Data\Folding@home-gpu2"
were "x" is your install directory

now double click on each shortcut unlike the F@H forums this way DOES work and you DO NOT need to disable SLI or Xfire like the F@H site said.

Happy folding.


This methode can be used with more than 2 GPU's simply repeat the steps as many times as necissary..i have taken the time to writ a small list telling you what gpu tags you should use


first GPU: -gpu 0
Second GPU: -gpu 1
Third GPU: -gpu 2
Fourth GPU -gpu 3
Fifth GPU: -gpu 4
Sixth GPU: -gpu 5

etc...for however many GPU's you have it is always one number below your actual amount because the irst GPU is considered gpu "0"



and remember if you dont want to use a dongle with SLI enabled you simply add an extra command to the target area were you would put "-GPU X" this command is

 -forcegpu nvidia_g80

so the entire line will look like

 -gpu x -forcegpu nvidia_g80

remember were X is your GPU number