Slow start, due to WCG finally released some more DDDT2-work the FAH-production will be low a little longer. But, I've still managed to do a test-wu per "slot" to see how the new v7-client works-out...
The good: Installing, initial configuration with name & smp/gpu-combinations was easy, and no problem being up and running & downloading work with v7. The installer was happy to use the suggested non-default install-directory, something the older v6-clients didn't do. The FAH-control with wu-info and so on is also a big improvement over earlier FAH-clients.
The bad: FAH keeps using the less-than-useful non-local times so users must constantly convert, not a big problem since only 1 hour off but still. Also, the logs still miss dates, except they are now including the start-time. Log-files keeps referring to "Unit:##" and so on, instead of more informative things like "SMP-wu-#12345" or something. Selections like "pause crunching" and "finish wu and stop" is not saved between client-restarts, making it very difficult to stop crunching on a particular slot for whatever reason.
While it's now supposed to be possible to connect to other FAH-clients, atleast my try on this was a total failure, not sure if due to mis-understanding something or a firewall being in the way.
The ugly: Except for a few basic config-choises, the wast majority is hidden-away and must be added manually. To do so, you'll need to 1st. try to locate the documentation that contains the info and search-through the various options to try to find the one you're looking for and afterwards try to find out WTF you're supposed to add the various options. D:
Crap: Due to the client-weakness with temporary disabling a slot, removed the GPU-slot. But afterwards did a little searching and found-out client had used the old crappy GPU-core instead of the new OpenCL-one, so decided to re-enable GPU again. Trying to do so just spit-out an error-message, and trying uninstall & re-install didn't solve the problem, so had to nuke the whole client-install just to re-enable GPU again. Also, this gave the same crappy GPU-core again, so had to try to find-out if there was any option to get the newer core. While this info possibly is hidden-away somewhere on either FAH's site or the FAH-forums, after trying to wade-through various pages did a google-search instead and finally found the info on a non-FAH-site...
So basically, v7 is great... until you want to change any of the "non-standard" options (and most of the options is "non-standard"). If you do need to change anything, going-through the whole list of the various options like in v6-cmd-version was actually better than the so-called new and "improved" v7
In any case, while the new OpenCL-Ati-core seems to be faster and apparently gives more points than the old GPU-core did, it's still wasting a full cpu-core to do so. Additionally the SMP-part still gets a huge penalty if you're doing anything else with the computer. Both things will limit my FAH-production...
WOW, the Snowmen had great 1st. day production.