well it toiok a while for me to see anything, my progress is now at 15.61%
However, the pool still shows nothing....
I'll let it run anyway
yep yep... folding is MUCH different than mining.... its not what miners are used to. Miners fire up cgminer / bfminer etc and see shares and mhash / ghash instantly, and shares start getting counted.
Folding , is all together different.... It can take a long time for the cpu to feed all the data to the gpu before the gpu even starts working. you can check the log page to get an idea of what exactly the progress your folder is making. just click log tab and scroll to bottom to see the most recent activity.
if u see this at the bottom
10:32:56:WU01:FS00:0x17:Completed 0 out of 2500000 steps (0%)
then ur folder is working away at its first fold, and in a while u will see stats start to show up
The folding pool does not credit you untill you entire work unit is complete , then it must upload the work... looks like this in your log
10:36:54:WU00:FS00:Connecting to 171.64.65.98:80
10:36:54:WU00:FS00:Upload 1.08%
10:37:00:WU00:FS00:Upload 15.18%
10:37:06:WU00:FS00:Upload 30.36%
10:37:12:WU00:FS00:Upload 44.46%
10:37:18:WU00:FS00:Upload 59.64%
10:37:24:WU00:FS00:Upload 73.74%
after that completes, you work unit is check by stanford for accuracy. It then takes additional time for stanford to post these results ( they usually update by the hour, however some WU's may not be approved for up to 6 hours ).
Finally after stanford has approved and posted your points, this info is collected by the folding pool to calculate payout.
So if you are getting impatient with you folder ( i was too when i started to fold instead of mine ) just give it some time... check the logs to make sure its working... and let it run.
Great thing about folding is that it using much less wattage and creates less heat on the gpu then mining.
