GPU on cards with 256MB RAM
When running the GPU client, every 2 - 18 seconds depending on the speed of your card the windows UI seizes, pauses, or otherwise stops for a short duration. Your mouse pointer stops moving, the video you're watching freezes then catches up, your application windows don't update etc. It might be as short as a split second or it might be as long as a couple seconds. You could describe it as hitching, lagging, or freezing.
How do you know if you're affected by this problem? If you have read the description above and are still wondering you probably don't have it. It's a very big problem that you'd definitely notice if you are trying to use the system and GPU fold at the same time.
ALL PCIe cards with 256mb EXCEPT cards based on the RV570 GPU are affected. Currently that means only X1950 Pro & X1650XT are unaffected on PCIe.
AGP cards ARE NOT affected regardless of memory quantity.
All supported driver sets are affected (6.5, 6.10 & 6.11, etc...).
All chipset/cpu configurations are affected.
Heh, I could be official TPU Folding Problem Solver...
Not sure on all that . . . I've been using the GPU Console instead of the Client - I can say I have no problem at all like that with the Console.
It tends to pack them away fairly quick, though; it'll finish a step about every 9 minutes with my very slight OC. Every 10 minutes at stock GPU timings. I have noticed, though, that the GPU Console seems to snag high CPU priority (even though XP lists it as low). It can take a very long time for other programs to load up when opened.
Otherwise, I tried using the SMP - even though I only have a P4 HT, and yeah, it just ran even slower than it already does, so I use the 504Console instead.
If you're looking to try and pick up some speed, I'd recommend using the Consoles, as these don't require and progress rendering to a window (which tends to slow up CPU progress).
Otherwise, TPU seems to be slowly climbing the ranks, coupla weeks ago, team standing was at 435, now at 418.