Small Update

Started by Seth Cooper

parker25 Lv 1

Forget improving some of the introductory levels and work on the bugs. Maybe you should fix the fact that if you use a game on another computer, you have to do all the levels over again. Your progress should be saved on the computer, so that when you download the software and use it, it knows where you are in the games. Focus on the big things, like making the software work properly.

parker25 Lv 1

And when I say bug fixes, I mean give people credit for the puzzles they've already done. The credit for each puzzle should be stored on the server, not on the computer, so that if I instal fold.it on a new computer, I should have all that credit for my puzzles available.

vixx Lv 1

works properly when its used as it was designed to be used.

The fixes to the intro puzzles were needed and were a priority, given up to 700 people a day are joining and learning to play.
The people volunteering to help new players work through the intro glitches, may get a bit more sleep now.

Most of the people here are volunteers and do things as and when they are able to, or as resources allow.

Most of the time, I personally think they do an excellent job.

What you have described isnt a bug, it is a limitation of the game currently.

spmm Lv 1

The tutorials, at least a few of them, have to be completed again if you install on a different computer or if certain types of upgrades are made to the application. We all get to do them a few times, I time myself now to see how quickly I can get through them.

If you need or want to use several computers you need to save the science puzzles to yourself, then you can access them from other computers, as they are saved centrally.

The highest score you have made is always registered on the server.

krulon Lv 1

I do not have to redo the tutorial puzzles on each computer I load Foldit onto. On startup, you can go down to "menu" at the bottom of the screen, then "puzzle menu", then "main menu" then "science puzzles". That way you can skip having to do all the intro puzzles, again.

greenmyfleet Lv 1

Hi. I just recently joined the site and start downloading fold it but it takes much time to complete the download. the file size is 24.4 MB. Can the download file size be reduced?

Thanks,
Bernard

ssix Lv 1

Hi,
my suggestion is to focus more on lower CPU loading. My observation is that Foldit is taking same CPU time as an recent 3D game with good physics and is too heavy for cheap laptop.

Best.

PedroDaGr8 Lv 1

This CPU loading is a result of the fact your are doing HIGH INTENSITY high order calculations on molecules with an astronomical number of atoms. For computational chemistry IIRC the general rule of thumb is that for molecular mechanics the amount of time scales proportional to N^2 (where N is the number of atoms) and for more realistic ab initio/DFT calculations time scales to N^4. Your 3D game while intense is not doing NEAR the level of calculations this program is doing. When I did computational chemistry calculations for a class in undergrad (back in 2002-2003) I was using 16 Itanium2 processors, 2GB of ram per processor and around 500GB-1TB swap file. Keep in mind this was back when an 80GB HD was the largest you could get and most computers had 1GB or 512MB of ram. All of this was just for freakin ethanol versus dimethyl ether. These proteins are many orders of magnitude more complex.