Two great videos from LociOiling have been put together and added to our Community Learning Exchange playlist over on YouTube.
Want to learn to play like LociOiling? Watch these and give it a try! You can also check our entire playlist for more videos, brought to you by various members of our community. Thanks again, Loci!
I really like these videos.
In the Selection Interface video, I like that Loci shows how to freeze residues. I didn't know this could be done, so I made a recipe called FreezeSelectSome0 (http://fold.it/portal/recipe/101715) to do it.
For the Multiclients video, I would like to add some comments:
(1) 3:04-3:58 shows the Windows Task Manager (from Windows 10?), which you can also reach using ctrl-alt-delete. In the Windows 10 Task Manager under Details, you can find a chart listing a Foldit.exe row for each running Foldit client. Right-clicking on this chart's header, you can select a column called "Base priority". If you then right-click on a Foldit.exe row in this chart, you can set its priority to "Below Normal" or "Low" so that the row's Foldit client will run in the background. Running Foldit clients in the background lets you run other things on your computer without them seeming so slow. In Loci's video, he uses 7 Foldit clients on an 8 CPU machine to get around this, but by running all Foldit clients in the background, he could probably comfortably run 8 Foldit clients on the same machine.
(2) 9:43-12:01 shows how to make custom icons for each Foldit client. This is new to me and interesting, but I tell my clients apart a different way. I have the usual white-ribbon-green-background Foldit shortcut icons on my Desktop, one for each Foldit client, but I put different names below each one (like Loci's fold1-fold8). When these clients are running, similar icons appear on the taskbar at the bottom of my screen. If I right-click on these taskbar icons, it lists their unique names (like Loci's fold1-fold8). If these taskbar icons get out of order from left to right, I can left-click and drag on them to put them back in order.
Thanks for reading, and thanks again to Loci for making these videos.
(3) Another thing you can do in the Windows Task Manager is to use Details to bring up the chart of processes, right-click on one of these processes, and then pick "Set affinity" for that process. This will list how many CPU's your machine has and lets you pick which CPU's you want to allow each process to run on. My own machines list CPU's 0 & 1 or CPU's 0 to 3. I think the default is to let each process run on any available CPU. I haven't played much with the affinity setting, but if you want to enforce a balanced load on your machine, you might try assigning each Foldit client to its own CPU.
