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caron@us.ibm.com
Cruncher Joined: May 10, 2007 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline |
Is anyone else seeing their "World Community Grid" screen saver flashing when it is active? I just installed it on my desktop (been running on a win XP laptop for years).
My machine is running Win 7 64bit, 4 Gb ram, 500Gb system drive and 3Tb Raid drive. I saw this thread but doesn't look like anyone has found a cause/solution yet: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=1717 |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I noticed that if I use the "show graphics" button on the BIONC Manager the graphics do not flash.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Flash as in, bright white flashes of light or flash as in no picture?
I've noticed on one of my PCs, that it sort of "stutters" as the graphics load for an individual WU, but then it becomes normal. |
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arkin
Cruncher Joined: Jan 14, 2007 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am having the same problem.
flashes alternately between black screen and the project graphics. very annoying to the point where i have diabled the screensaver. graphics are fine when not in screensaver mode. Never used to be a problem... did somethnig change in BOINC? |
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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Does it happen when BOINC tries to switch between projects? I know on the systems that use the screen saver, I change the settings to not use the BOINC, rather the projects and to make them only switch like every hour.
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Former Member
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Hello arkin,
No changes in BOINC that I have noticed. Could you post the start of your Messages tab so that we know more about your system? Lawrence |
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wchoff
Cruncher Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 35 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This has been happening to me too. Just started this week. Usually it happens when my hand is on the mouse and I'm not typing. Once I move the mouse the screen goes back to normal. I'm crunching C4CW this week and haven't been switching between projects or updated BOINC. Here's the start of my Messages tab:
10/3/2011 8:48:56 AM||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.30 for windows_intelx86 10/3/2011 8:48:56 AM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 10/3/2011 8:48:56 AM||Libraries: libcurl/7.17.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 10/3/2011 8:48:56 AM||Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC 10/3/2011 8:49:03 AM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8] 10/3/2011 8:49:03 AM||Processor features: fpu tsc sse sse2 mmx 10/3/2011 8:49:03 AM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00) 10/3/2011 8:49:03 AM||Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 3.85 GB virtual 10/3/2011 8:49:03 AM||Disk: 93.16 GB total, 63.16 GB free 10/3/2011 8:49:03 AM||Local time is UTC -7 hours 10/3/2011 8:49:04 AM|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 443057; location: (none); project prefs: default 10/3/2011 8:49:04 AM||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 27-Sep-2011 09:20:15) 10/3/2011 8:49:04 AM||Host location: none 10/3/2011 8:49:04 AM||General prefs: using your defaults 10/3/2011 8:49:04 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1841.72MB 10/3/2011 8:49:04 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 2025.89MB 10/3/2011 8:49:04 AM||Preferences limit disk usage to 3.73GB 10/3/2011 8:49:17 AM||Running CPU benchmarks 10/3/2011 8:49:48 AM||Benchmark results: 10/3/2011 8:49:48 AM|| Number of CPUs: 2 10/3/2011 8:49:48 AM|| 2028 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU 10/3/2011 8:49:48 AM|| 4123 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU |
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Former Member
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Thanks wchoff,
You have just disproved all my tentative hypotheses.  At this point, I will just remark that shortly after switching from the UD project screensavers to the BOINC project screensavers, I decided that the multi-OS BOINC screensavers were much more primitive and more likely to cause video problems, so I switched to Space and then to Blank. Which is a kludgy way of avoiding screensaver problems, but it works for me.  Lawrence |
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