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Message 41971 - Posted: 9 Jan 2012, 0:12:46 UTC

The driver of nvidia crashes when we run the program seti with the nvidia compilation and a video from megavideo for example so with flash plugin. Even if I disable hardware acceleration. The boinc developpment team should look into the interaction between flash video and setiprogram and so the boinc plateform with nvidia drivers.
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Message 41972 - Posted: 9 Jan 2012, 0:33:13 UTC - in response to Message 41971.  

Why? The BOINC development team doesn't make the Seti applications. All BOINC does is detect whether or not your GPU is capable of CUDA and/or OpenCL and to download, cache and schedule work for it, nothing else.

What you have to try as end-user is:
1. Test different driver version, see which is stable enough for your system. There is no "the driver", there are plenty more. Perhaps your GPU is finicky towards "the latest driver".
2. Test different Flash versions, to see if it's possibly their fault.
3. Depending on the GPU in your system (a total unknown to us since you didn't see it fit to tell anyone), you may or may not be able to do other things with it at the same time as you run CUDA or OpenCL on it. Safest way is to disable BOINC or the science app running on the GPU when you start the Flash video. BOINC is capable of doing that.

I take it you posted this on the Flash forums, the operating system forums, the Nvidia forums and the Seti forums as well? And if not, why not? Why should BOINC solve it alone, when there are plenty more parties involved?
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