Originally posted by: MechEng
Hi there...
Been away from F@H for a long time, and just now decided I wanted to start run it again.
I can see there's some new clients to choose from now, and have no clue as to what I should run and how to set these clients up in the most efficient way.
I currently have and old P4 single core cpu, Geforce 7800GS and 2GB RAM.
Any recommendations, hints and help with settings and so on would be much appreciated...
Best regards,
MechEng
Welcome
MechEng!
Since you have a single core CPU, you only have a couple of options.
The F@H download page is
here.
You can run the Graphical Client (ver 5.03 or 6.00beta1) which is the easiest to set up and it sort of has a gee-whiz interface. The installation instructions are also on the download page.
You can also run the text-only console client (ver 5.04 or 6.00beta1). This is more of a hands on version and also has the option to run as a service which I don't do. For this version I just create a directory called fah and then download the client into that directory. I then open a command prompt window and cd into that directory. I then run the executable with the -configonly switch and then answer all the questions (Team # 198 for us!). For an explanation of config options and suggested settings refer to MDEs setup guide
here. This guide needs updating but the config questions and answers section is still valid with the exception of the "advanced methods" one (answer no these days and will get a few more points)). Once your configuration is complete then start the executable FAHxxxx with the -local and -verbosity 9 to display the most info.
If you decide to run the ver 6.00 beta1 clients you will need a password which you can get
here
If you try the graphical client first, then make sure it is uninstalled before you move to the console client just to be safe.
Unfortunately, with your system, none of the "high performance" clients are appropriate. You need a dual core or quad to run the SMP client and you need an ATI graphics card (some versions) to run the GPU client. Thus far there's no support for Nvidia cards.
Hope this helps and let us know if you need more help.