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Message 52147 - Posted: 1 Jan 2012, 0:29:50 UTC

MilkyWay....where is the screen saver? Why there are not screen saver on this project?
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Message 52156 - Posted: 1 Jan 2012, 16:19:21 UTC - in response to Message 52147.  

MilkyWay....where is the screen saver? Why there are not screen saver on this project?


Partly because the screen saver slows down the crunching. If your cpu is using time to redraw the screen then it isn't using that time to crunch.
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Message 52160 - Posted: 1 Jan 2012, 17:55:49 UTC

And why the work units are only 6 seconds? Thant`s stessfull...i dont`have enough work for my PC!
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Message 52161 - Posted: 1 Jan 2012, 18:18:02 UTC - in response to Message 52160.  

And why the work units are only 6 seconds? Thant`s stessfull...i dont`have enough work for my PC!


Patience, my friend. A new server is coming online in the next week or two, so this should change. Happy new year.
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Message 52167 - Posted: 1 Jan 2012, 22:32:50 UTC - in response to Message 52161.  

Oh, that`s fine! Thank you! Bye!
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Message 52178 - Posted: 2 Jan 2012, 13:20:28 UTC - in response to Message 52160.  

And why the work units are only 6 seconds? Thant`s stessfull...i dont`have enough work for my PC!


And the gpu ones for me are only 1 1/2 minutes long, but the new server should give us lots of units to munch on.
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Message 52189 - Posted: 2 Jan 2012, 22:58:10 UTC - in response to Message 52178.  

Now is working, i have units log 14 hours :-)
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Message 52202 - Posted: 3 Jan 2012, 13:08:48 UTC - in response to Message 52189.  

Now is working, i have units log 14 hours :-)


Those seem to be gpu units, not the n-body cpu units. Try turning off the gpu work option under your account and see if that is better.
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Message 52205 - Posted: 3 Jan 2012, 22:42:15 UTC - in response to Message 52147.  

Couldn't there be some screen captures so that a 'screen saver' could give people some idea of the progress that is being made? Not something that is frequent or real-time, but perhaps a screen shot at 00:00 GMT daily or one day each week so that we know something is taking place besides our computers being used.

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Message 52207 - Posted: 4 Jan 2012, 12:34:52 UTC - in response to Message 52202.  

Now is working, i have units log 14 hours :-)


Those seem to be gpu units, not the n-body cpu units. Try turning off the gpu work option under your account and see if that is better.


Seems I was mistaken...here at MW BOTH kinds of units go to the cpu, not one type for the cpu only. I don't know how to fix it, sorry.
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Message 52208 - Posted: 4 Jan 2012, 12:35:56 UTC - in response to Message 52205.  

Couldn't there be some screen captures so that a 'screen saver' could give people some idea of the progress that is being made? Not something that is frequent or real-time, but perhaps a screen shot at 00:00 GMT daily or one day each week so that we know something is taking place besides our computers being used.

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If you go into the Boinc Manager down by the clock you can see your progress and other things about Boinc.
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Message 52326 - Posted: 8 Jan 2012, 21:46:05 UTC - in response to Message 52147.  

There was a screensaver being worked on but the person working on it left. There's another n-body screensaver which I might release at some point (but I don't really like it for a variety of reasons) depending on if I ever get to fixing a few things.
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