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Coleslaw
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Mar 29, 2007 Post Count: 1343 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have 7.0.18 running in a virtual machine. What did you mean it didn't play nice? I haven't ran it long, but would love the heads up for any headaches you have seen. I did install as a service since I didn't have any intent on running GPU.
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mikey
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I have 7.0.18 running in a virtual machine. What did you mean it didn't play nice? I haven't ran it long, but would love the heads up for any headaches you have seen. I did install as a service since I didn't have any intent on running GPU. According to a thread at Seti, sorry no link, ver 7 does not work any better than ver 6 on Windows8. What DOES work is to do several 'fixes' or install as a 'service', as you did. The problem with a 'service' install is that you can't then crunch with a gpu, and that is a deal breaker for me! The 'fixes' are to export and import registry parts from a working Win7 pc to your Win8 Boinc install and then to create the Boinc group accounts. It is very detailed and not a good choice for those that don't know what they are looking at. According to the Seti thread Rom Walton, developer for the installation code, is going to be trying to fix it this weekend, so expect a new version coming out soon. Rom is VERY good and will work on it until either it is fixed or is told to move on, he works for Dr. Anderson. Okay I found the link: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=67055   [Edit 1 times, last edit by mikey159b at Mar 3, 2012 1:46:14 PM] |
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Former Member
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I'm more than happy with my Ubuntu which gives me the most bang for my resources. No need to fork over hard-earned money to the altar of Microsoft and definitely no need to continue the Windows addiction with Windows_v8.
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Former Member
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To quote a post from the Alpha mail list [developers/testers], (which was old new to me):
Might be old news to you but, Windows Display Driver Model Enhancements: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/br259098 WDDM v1.2 is used with W8. I see MS increased the use of video resources (memory) by the operating system; good for the OS but probably not for crunching on discrete GPU's. --//-- |
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Former Member
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For the interested, maybe worth to bookmark for those with loose plans to upgrade... a W8 FAQ in WIP: http://activewin.com/faq/windows8.shtml
------------------------------------------//-- edit: to lose or to loose, that's the question :D [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at May 29, 2012 5:18:12 AM] |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Am enjoying win7 64. Seems Microsoft is following apple on their next OS upgrade. Still running snow leopard on my mini. Won't be upgrading to either one from what I am seeing on both new OS's.
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Former Member
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Think the interest on the part of the DC community is, how much W8 is going to offload onto the GPU and how it impacts / which GPU. The I7 SB/IB will have an advantage on that front with the on-CPU dye GPU functions. My laptop is set to automatically switch the usage between that and the ATI Radeon card, depending on things such as resource needs and energy consumption considerations. Mostly running in Performance optimized mode, occasionally ''coolest'', which knocks the CPU hrz down by .4Ghz, and most silent, then going down to 1.8Ghz.
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I'm more than happy with my Ubuntu which gives me the most bang for my resources. No need to fork over hard-earned money to the altar of Microsoft and definitely no need to continue the Windows addiction with Windows_v8. ; Dittos also Lubuntu--I do have Win7 on some but never use it   |
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Former Member
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Banging the windows door is always a good pass-time, but for the biggest majority of crunchers there's no option [neither have I for at least 1 *work* device]... It has to be Windows... mostly coming with a new computer. So let's stick to that... W8 as the topic and the experiences and workarounds to learn, so when it comes, we know what to tell to get crunching.
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Former Member
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Ok with build 8250 but 'Failed to add boinc_admin user" with the build 8400
Ok with an old release 5.x |
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