The problem is that when MW has work again, Collatz ignores it and carries on hogging everything,

Only for the 1 WU that's running at the moment (if you have project priority set to 0).

Beyond, thats not true. I have mine set at 0 for colatz and get about 8 hours work from them when MW runs out. It will not switch back to MW until Colatz WUs run out. Royce

Perhaps I shouldn't have assumed that most are running the newer BOINC versions that properly support GPUs and backup projects. Check the above messages for links to current versions. Yes technically alpha, but much improved from the v6.10.60 that you're currently using.

I'll try it and see what happens. This might be a better place to find it for most people though.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

Royce

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Sorry but it didn't work for me, went back to 6.10.60. Kept getting VPU errors and workunits running on for 30 minutes after completion.

Sorry but it didn't work for me, went back to 6.10.60. Kept getting VPU errors and workunits running on for 30 minutes after completion.

BOINC Manager doesn't cause VPU errors. BOINC screensavers can. Project apps can. What project are WUs running on in? Did you check the preferences? They've changed in the newer version, such as "while processor usage is less than" (generally set to 0). 6.12.22 is close to being the default release from what I've heard. Suit yourself though...

Well all I can say is that after upgrading to 6.12.22 I had all sorts of errors. After rolling back to 6.10.60 everything is sweet as a nut again. I can only report what happened, I don't have an explanation for it. I use a blank screensaver and yes I did check the preferences.

PC Specs Dell 9100, 4gb Ram, Win 7 Prof 64 bit SP1, Pent D 3.2 + HT

GPU Specs Ati HD5850 1Gb, running stock settings, Cat 11.2

Boinc BM 6.10.60, 1 x MW on Gpu + 2 x Seti on Cpu

Interesting. Have 11 machines running 6.12.22 here with no problems at all and 3 more 6.12.22 at my neighbors, also no problems.

Interesting. Have 11 machines running 6.12.22 here with no problems at all and 3 more 6.12.22 at my neighbors, also no problems.

More interesting, running pc's at your neighbors...

Pig-headed as I am, I never run the latest BOINC version. I read what other users experience with it. I have now 6.10.58 runing smoothly.

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Greetings from,
TJ

The main BOINC page still has 6.10 for download so I'll stick with that for now. Seems other versions may be wonky from time to time.

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32bit Windows XP Home
AMD Opteron 180
ASUS A8N-SLI Motherboard
Nvidia 450GTS GPU
4GB DDR Memory

More interesting, running pc's at your neighbors...

Yep, spreading the DC religion :) They're on the Ars Technica team too :) :)
We have revival meetings once a month, jumping over rows of crunching boxes and speaking in FORTRAN for CPM...

... We have revival meetings once a month, jumping over rows of crunching boxes and speaking in FORTRAN for CPM...

rofl .... love it .....

"praise the BOINC and pass the power bill" :)

Regards
Zy

They're on the Ars Technica team too :) :)

Whatever happened to Lamb Chop ?

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They're on the Ars Technica team too :) :)

Whatever happened to Lamb Chop ?

"Ars Technica Team Lamb Chop" was the name for our old SETI Classic team. We also had "food related" names for the team in other projects. My favorite was "Team Primordial Soup" for the Genome@Home project. The DC Vault and stats sites admins asked us to standardize our team name as "Ars Technica" to make their life easier. So the fun names have gone the way of the CPM OS (except there are still a number of non BOINC projects under the TBR [Team Beef Roast] banner and a few others). Off topic though, so should probably end it here :)

Oh, and the OTHER Lamp Chop? That got eaten by Shari Lewis :)

Thanks Beyond. As you can surmise I've been around for 10 years or so. RIP Shari 1998. But yes, off topic so we we'll leave it there. :-)

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