Foldit User Study - Now looking for players anywhere

Started by Adrien Treuille

NoOfficial Lv 1

Change of plans. We are no longer just focusing our search for users in the Pittsburgh area. We would welcome anyone who is interested to contact us and we will set up a time to observe you play remotely. Our research will contribute to the future of online science gaming. Send me an e-mail: ndfishel@gmail.com.

Brick, are you interested?

raguvaran Lv 1

hi, i don't know about medical but i am interested to play this foldit. i don't know how to get start this game so please help me what are all the steps to do when i enter this site.

beta_helix Staff Lv 1

If you go back to http://fold.it/portal, there are icons to download the installer in the upper right area of the page. Select the appropriate installer for your OS, download and install, and you should be able to start up the application. Log in with your account, and select intro puzzles or competition puzzles to find the puzzles.

swalau03 Lv 1

I can't log on online…it keeps saying my user name/password is incorrect…and it's not. The tech help page was useless…I'm using Firefox…told me to " see if there is anything in the configure proxies box." is there supposed to be…is there not supposed to be anything…that's a dead end. The feedback page only lists the issues…but nothing will actually link to a useful page, it just reorganizes by a filter. There is no way to contact any support…I understand that this is a beta page…but come on. Why can I not log on and how am I supposed to find any useful advice or help on how to correct the problem? Love the program offline..but what's the point if there is not any way to make it work beyond that. Help, please post a viable link for tech issues, thanks.

admin Staff Lv 1

Hi swalaut – it's customary to use the Feedback page for problem reports. But wherever you post it, a little more detail would be appreciated. Could you attach your log.txt (see the FAQ for how to do so)?

Crashguard303 Lv 1

Most time, this error occurs, when you have registered (I suggest here on the foldit page, not the game interface)
and there was a download problem when starting Foldit the first time, or canceling the first download, when FoldIt gets its files (I've found out this by coincidence).

If you use Windows 7, try disabling IPv6 and only using IPv4 in the internet protocols.

Try reinstalling FoldIt and make sure the first download is not skipped or terminated.

Crashguard303 Lv 1

…it helps, if you close all other applications which use CPU- and network-ressources (in the background)
I mean progs like BOINC or some download-Managers like uTorrent or Chatprograms like ICQ, and set Foldit's task priority higher, so it can perform the download better (I even had to do this on a band-new dual-core system).

TMHO, it's a server problem.

Another thing:
What about the interviews?
Did I miss it?

Adrien Treuille Lv 1

Yes. Interviews are finished. Thanks all of you for your help. It was extremely valuable.

By all means, please post additional comments on this thread.