I had the same problem. The Rice graphics ran during the initialization phase of my first WU, but crashed after the first checkpoint. ( I have my messages show checkpointing.) I received no error messages.

I restarted the graphics, but they crashed almost instantly, after about 4 seconds, this second time. I kept this up for about eight more attempts with the same results. I would press the graphic command keys such as B and I, although I rarely had time. Nothing worked. I received no error messages. The only other thing that I can report is that my windows task manager showed that the Rice graphics application would drop out of memory at the time of the crash.

You will notice that I said that I had the problem. About an hour later I tried again and everything worked! I left graphics running for about a half hour changing display options. I restarted the graphics about four times for short periods and then later in the day I ran it for over an hour. No problems!

I have XP Home SP2, I have not installed SP3 yet.

Jack

Cannot replicate on Vista HP 32 bit with 4 Rice running for 30 minutes. Manually calling the graphics works including all the key options e.g. adding the atoms, green, blue red, purple.

Hands off the screensaver comes up with the initial BOINC logo and switching to project graphics. Obviously any button or mouse operation took it into the sign in screen.

No entries in message log nor any abnormality in any of the stderr.txt files.

Thanks for the response guys. I'm afraid I'm not a computer techie, so can only give you limited info on my system. It is an office pc with onboard video chip using 64Mb shared memory.
The symptoms are that the screen goes blank, the hard disc light flickers furiously and the machine is very slow to respond. Eventualy I can get task manager up and find that WGC is Not Responding. After a few tries I can get WCG to shut down but the machine is quite sluggish untill I do a reboot.
Don't know if that gives anyone a hint as to the cause.
Eryl