FoldIt doesn't work on Vista!

Started by Celeritas

Seth Cooper Staff Lv 1

Have the people experiencing problems tried disabling hardware acceleration?

On XP, right click on the desktop, choose "properties", click the "settings" tab, the "advanced" button, the "troubleshoot" tab, then drag the slider to "disable all but basic accelerations".

On Vista, right click the desktop, choose "personalize", click "display settings", the "advanced settings" button, the "troubleshoot" tab, the "change settings" button, then drag the slider to "disable all but basic accelerations".

thomas5267 Lv 1

It works!!!(but in a crazy way)
First, you need to open the firewall to set into the excpetion list. Then, find a program that use UAC and after cilck the UAC program, it works! But you need to cilck it every time when you have a action……

Seth Cooper Staff Lv 1

Yes, another thing to try is to add foldit to the firewall excceptions list on Vista:

From the start menu, go to "Control Panel", then pick "Classic View" mode and double click "Windows Firewall" , then "Allow a Program Through Windows Firewall", then "Add Program…", then find foldit in the list and double click it.

Does that help out?

EduardBV Lv 1

I wondered what Thomas ment with "Aero". Google got me to:
http://www.petri.co.il/enable_windows_vista_aero_graphics.htm
So, Thomas's solution must have been:

Right click anywhere there is open space on your desktop and left click on Personalize
Click on Window Color and Appearance
At the bottom of the Windows Color and Appearance window click “Open classic appearance properties for more color options”
Look on the scroll list and see what scheme is set, when it is set to "Aero", set it to the default "Windows Vista Basic"

Celeritas, does this work for you?

saigonnati Lv 1

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: foldit.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4822d088
Fault Module Name: nvoglv32.dll
Fault Module Version: 7.15.10.9735
Fault Module Timestamp: 4564e321
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00236aad
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.6
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 00f1
Additional Information 2: 35bce3d3a931351de85f3f944217df6e
Additional Information 3: e203
Additional Information 4: 7cb324424988ed38d11e6aff68becd1d

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SqualLyuk Lv 1

I posted this (http://fold.it/portal/node/595781).

My problem is that foldit runs without problem but sometimes it doesn't answer (i hope this is the right word because in Italy we used to say "doesn't answer" of course in italian)…
I've just tried and it's stopped working 4 times consecutively (in the level 3-4) .

DisposableHeart Lv 1

I hope it will be a main page news when the bugs are fixed and the app does not freeze in every 2 minutes.

(Vista 64 bit Ultimate, with all the amenities and stuff.)

Thank you.
Peter