D²OL Tweaking Guide & How-2
There are now Easy installers available for the XS D²OL Team that does all of the tweaking, installing, and registration for you! (There are versions that allow you to self register your node(s)) You can get them from the XS D²OL Downloads page HERE!!! 
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Here are the tweaks in short, for a more detailed description just scroll down
1.) Tweak - Disable as many animations in the main window as possible.
2.) Tweak - Or disable all animations by disabling the main window completely in the agent’s properties.
3.) Tweak - Set the candidate queue size to 200+ in the agents properties.
4.) Tweak - Use 2 agents on SMP or P4 CPUs with Hyper Threading (4 agents on a dual Xeon system with Hyper Threading)
5.) Tweak - Use D²OL Daddy to make the client run at the lowest possible priority (Like it should).
6.) How-2 - Backup your node.prp files so you don’t have dead nodes in your stats/profile if you ever need to reinstall.
7.) How-2 - Restoring your node numbers from the backups. You can also use steps 7>8 to fold as many clients as you want under 1 node! Giving you a SUPER NODE!!!
8.) How-2 - Cleaning house of the dead nodes created by the re-installation of clients and the restoration of the node.prp file.
1. If you like the information in the main D²OL window but don’t want to sacrifice that much performance for it then go to the main D²OL window:
Now go to the option bar below the animation window and disable the "hud", "state" and "msg" windows by clicking on the buttons in bar below the animation window.
Then click on the round compass like looking button next to the "msg" button. Right click in the center of the X-Y cross so the animation of the rotating structure stops and is no longer eating extra resources.
Make sure the "name" option to display the names of the atoms is disabled. If not then disable it by clicking on the "name" button on the right in the same bar below the animation window.
Now set the animation detail to the lowest quality as well by sliding the small button next to the "name" button to the far right.
Your main D²OL window should now look like this
This should already save some resources and give you a performance boost!
2. Or if you don’t care about the information displayed in the main window and want the most performance, then go to the properties:
And uncheck the "enable animations" and "launch main window on startup" options. This will completely disable the main window and all the animations. You will still be able to access all options and settings by right clicking on the try icon in the taskbar in windowsThis should give you a nice performance boost, like running the DF client with the "hidden" option.
3. While you are in the properties menu you should also set the "Candidate Queue Size" to 200 or higher. This will help save you from D²OL server crashes. And will keep you from running out of work. A fast PC can finish up 50 candidates before the next upload. (Uploads are set to every 6hrs)
4. If you have an Intel Pentium 4 CPU with Hyper Threading or a dual processor system you should install the agent twice or 4 times (dual Xeon) to different directories .../d2ol/1/ and .../d2ol/2/ for example
if you are overclocking your CPU ,which usually requires you to disable Hyper Threading to reach a high overclock, you should take into account that a slower clocked CPU with Hyper Threading and 2 agents is in most cases faster than a higher clocked CPU with Hyper Threading disabled.
A pentium4 @3.2ghz with HT is, for example, faster than a pentium4 @4ghz without HT.
5. “D²OL Daddy is a Graphical User Interface that sits in your Windows tray and monitors the D2OL and TSC clients to make sure their processes are running at the lowest possibly priority. This should greatly reduce and in many cases entirely eliminate the choppy/slow response from other software while D2OL/TSC is running on your machine. It will even monitor and control multiple copes of D2OL/TSC running on the same machine.”
I was having a lot of trouble using my day to day rig until I installed this! It’s a must have if you are going to be using the rig for much of anything. http://gilchrist.ca/jeff/D2OLdaddy
6. Some might find it important to be able to reuse their original node numbers. If you lose a client and need to reinstall, it will install with another node. This will give you a dead node in your stats. This is an easy fix.
a.) Right click on “node.prp” in the “…\D2OL\res” folder and select copy
b.) Create a Folder to hold all of your backups for your clients. For this example I’ll use “Node_Backups” and I’ll put it right in the root of C:\
c.) In this folder, C:\Node_Backups, create another folder named after the node # you are backing up. For this example I’ll be using 111787. You will have a path like this: “C:\Node_Backups\111787”
d.) In this folder you need to post the “node.prp” from step a.)
e.) It would also be a good idea to create a .txt file that says which client the node # belongs to. (Which machine and, if you have a rig with HT, which install)
f.) Repeat this process and continue adding folders to the “C:\Node_Backups” to store your different node numbers
g.) You might want to store this on a CD-R or save it to a safe disk.
7. If you ever need to install the node again but want to keep your previous node # then follow these steps. This guide will also let you fold as many clients under 1 node as you want!
a.) Install the client as normal
b.) Register with the same e-mail you used originally
c.) Let the client initialize and start it’s first candidate
d.) Don’t let the client upload any work (you have 6hrs so don’t sweat it) You don’t need to do anything special for this… just don’t wait 6hrs to complete this and do not do a manual update. If you restart the PC or the Agent for any reason it will upload any work you have done... So don't restart!
e.) Right click on the client in the task manager (next to the clock) and select “Exit”
f.) Now go to the folder where you copied your backup node and copy the node you want to restore.
For this example: “C:\Node_Backups\111787\node.prp”
g.) Paste this file in the new client install folder “…\D2OL\res” and allow it to replace the current node.prp file
h.) Restart the client and you should have your backup node # displayed in the “Status” window under “Statistics”
8. A new node was created in your stats page when you re-installed the client. As the whole purpose of the last two steps was to prevent dead nodes, we need to go delete them.
i.) Go to http://app.d2ol.com/memberServices/memberLogin.jsp and log in. Delete the new node that was created by the re-install by clicking [del] to the right of the node. (NOTE: you cannot delete a node that has completed work. Only new nodes that have no stats can be deleted)
j.) You may need to click “add node” to make the new node visible. Click the [del] button to the right of the node.
Please post more tweaks if you know any
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Originally Posted by saaya
Most of the stuff is at home so I'll have to try and look up the info again...
it was so empty and cold in here 
I fixed the vb code... changed some things back... and ran it through a spell checker (which I think it broke 
me and some others asked the teacher to do at least some shakespeare but we had to stop because 90% of the class didnt get anything at all and even the teacher had problems understanding it 
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