Hi,

from some time, I've stopped to see the nice project graphics as screensaver. Instead, I see only the BOINC logo with the two project percentages in plain letters.

Where do I change this setting so I can see again my beloved graphics?

pd: boinc manager 5.10.45 for Windows.

Best regards,

Leo

What kind of video card do you have? Do you use the drivers for it from Windows or did you update them to a later version?

The graphics are OpenGL, so you need to make sure your card does do OpenGL. Drivers can help activate that on your video card. The Windows supplied drivers usually don't give OpenGL capability.

Using the "resume on password" option on the screen saver will also prevent you from seeing the screen saver graphics. This is a bug in Windows, but it will be fixed in BOINC 6.

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 video cards are video chips on the motherboard. They use your CPU and motherboard RAM, instead of an independent GPU and additional RAM for graphics only.

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