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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Here a post by Ageless of the official BOINC developers forum. I think he's right..... your computers dont stay up to date by themselves and wont be able to crunch future work units with graphical features, if u dont keep your computer drivers up to date...verbatim:
----------------------------------------http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=1261 Message 6181 - Posted 25 Oct 2006 1:50:53 UTC With a little bit of work from your side, you can make things work that don't work at this moment. Therefore I'll give you some links to sites where you can update your motherboard chipset drivers, videocard or -chip drivers and DirectX. Motherboard: AMD Updates and Support Intel drivers and support nVidia nForce SIS VIA You can use CPU-Z to find out details about your motherboard. If you run dxdiag in Windows, you can check up on your DirectX version and videocard. (Start->Run, type dxdiag and hit Enter) Video: Intel Integrated drivers ATI. nVidia. Matrox SIS (for integrated videochips) VIA (for integrated videochips) At all times, if you have an integrated videochip on your system, check your motherboard maker's site first for updated drivers. DirectX: DirectX 9.0c October 2006 update
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Former Member
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 I have copied this post to the 'Useful Utilities' thread in 'Start Here'. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
This is interesting to those operating in this mode and the order of settings required to make it work most reliably...by Ageless and again pilfered from the BOINC developers forum.
----------------------------------------Unread post Message 6289 - Posted 2 Nov 2006 17:54:58 UTC Fixes for the screen saver: - Make sure you are up to date with your drivers and DirectX version. See this post for links. - Make sure your video card is OpenGL 1.2 compatible. (It doesn't need to be compliant, just compatible with a latest drivers update. If the latest drivers update didn't add at least 1.2 compatibility, your video card can't be used) - Set your Settings in Windows to not switch to a blank screen or resume with password. (Usually Desktop properties, Screen Saver, BOINC as screen saver choice, Settings) - Don't let your monitor power down after less minutes in Windows Power Options (in Control Panel) than you set your BOINC preferences. - Adjust your screen saver to kick in 1 minute after you let BOINC go crunch in Idle time, especially when you have an embedded videocard. Embedded videocards are video chips on the motherboard. They use your CPU and motherboard RAM, instead of an independent GPU and additional RAM for graphics only. - You can at all times open the graphics on the running result. In Boinc Manager, go to Tasks (Work in 5.2.x and before), select the result that shows Running, press the Show graphics button. This window can be maximized. If you can't see graphics in this window, you have a problem with your videocard. (If you have BOINC installed as a service, you don't have this option by default. You do need this work around ) - Using the screen saver (or graphics) takes up CPU cycles. If you have a slow computer, consider not using either for prolonged periods of time. When none of this helps, always state what videocard and operating system you use. ____________ Jord
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Former Member
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I have copied this to the 'Information about BOINC' thread in Start Here. |
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