Oh wow, heh thought I had posted this. Sorry Buck, I dropped the ball a bit.
When setting up the SMP client with Windows Vista 64, I noticed quite a few more hurdles than a standard installation, so I decided I'd catalogue them for others to use in guide format.
1) Same as above, Get that same client
FAH 6.23 Beta Win32 SMP MPICH
2) Again, same as above, unpack the files.
a) Replace the current 'Fah.exe' wherever you installed F@H with the updated version
Folding@Home Win32 x86
b) Again, you're going to need a password on your account. But you will also need an account 'Administrative Privileges'. Most people use the Administrator account anyways but so you know, its required.
3) Now we're going to have to run Install.bat, but heres where we deviate. Go to the Start Menu and find 'CMD.exe'. Right click it and select Run as Administrator. Even when I was signed in as Administrator, I had to specifically select this to get it to work. Now heres where some DOS days will come back for most, navigating via prompt.
This actually isn't too hard, and I still oddly find it 'fun'.
Type what I type, except the words in < > as these are instructions:
cd\
CD <Enter either each level of the path Eg. 'CD Program Files' 'CD Folding' -or- enter the entire path Eg. 'CD Program Files\Folding'>
Install.bat
Now here, follow the prompts
Either press enter or enter account name
Enter account password
Confirm password
If this worked you will see:
You will see two lines below confirming that smpd/mpiexec were installed fine.
If you see this twice, MPI is working
If you see this twice, MPI is working
From here, you can simply follow steps 4 through 6 listed above. To save space I won't re post them.
I also read El Fiendo's post below, but I am completely lost? will these instructions work with Win7 x64?
