Lately i’ve had some trouble with Folding@Home not downloading the necessary cores automatically. I’ve had to resort to manually downloading them and hex-editing them to get the .exe core. I’ve now found a way to automate this process, using Cygwin.
- Download cygwin from here
- Install with default settings (if using Vista you need to “Run as administrator” and also choose to install “just for me” during the setup process.
- Once installed run cygwin and let it set itself up.
- Copy and paste this into a new text document:
- Save it as folding.bat (you can give it a different name if you like, it’s not important) in your cygwin home directory (will be something like c:\cygwin\home\<username>\)
- Type the following into the cygwin window:
- Download the folding@home core from here
- Place the downloaded file into your cygwin home directory
- Type the following into the cygwin window:
- you should now have a file named FahCore_xx.exe (where xx is the number of the core)
- Place that file in your folding@home directory (eg. C:\program files\Folding@Home)
- Folding@Home should now be able to use the core 🙂
tail -c +513 Core_%1.fah > Core%1.exe.bz
bunzip2 Core%1.exe.bz
mv Core%1.exe FahCore_%1.exe
chmod 775 folding.bat
./folding.bat xx
(where xx is the number of the core eg. Core_11.fah would be 11