Hello,

I have been a BOINC volunteer for many years, migrating to BOINC after a few years of volunteering my PC in the SETI program when it was stand-alone. I enjoyed using the BOINC SETI graphics for my screen saver, but it seems the SETI graphics are no longer available. Could anyone explain if this is permanent, or perhaps I am doing something on my end that could be the cause.

Thank you

Seti graphics only work on CPU tasks, they do not work on GPU tasks. The science applications doing the work on the GPU do not have a graphics application, because at the time it was thought that simultaneous calculating intricate 3D graphics and doing science applications on the same hardware would increase the errors. Other projects have since shown this to be hogwash, but at Seti they still don't want to add a graphics application to the science applications running on the GPU. It also doesn't help in this that the Seti community develops the new science applications and they're massively against the graphics & screen saver.

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