1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Screensaver doesn't run on macOS Catalina ☹️ (Message 95850) Posted 15 Feb 2020 by lanceness Post: Keep doing the work for science and for now maybe run the Electric Sheep Screensaver; it's pretty, ever changing, light on the system and could bridge the gap until old ones are fixed or new ones come out. Some of us that like the screensavers as art and to get our friends to notice and start doing distributed computing. https://electricsheep.org/

2) Message boards : Questions and problems : New flashing, project or not with Win7 x64 (Message 36061) Posted 13 Dec 2010 by lanceness Post: A new issue has cropped up where I was seeing flashing on the screen every few seconds with the occasional appearance of the taskbar (in auto-hide) appearing over the screensaver. I closed all of my gadgets which I though may have updated and began the issue but all are closed, I thought it might be video drivers but I updated them and then thinking that it must be one or more projects using gpu but it happens even with the generic Boinc is not running saver. My system is Homebuilt Intel Q9550, Win7 x64, 8gb RAM, Nvidia 260,Boinc 6.10.36. Never blank, 1, 10,5. Very annoying, Please advise. This is not happening with the same version, same settings on my XP MCE machine and another running XP x64. Thanks Lance

3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc.scr not shutting down, says it is... (Message 22677) Posted 25 Jan 2009 by lanceness Post: That's 6.4.2 I was running not 6.5.2 if there ever was such a version. Lance

4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc.scr not shutting down, says it is... (Message 22646) Posted 24 Jan 2009 by lanceness Post: I tried 6.6 and it had the same problem but different, with it I no longer have to kill the boinc.scr process to get back to the desktop, I can simply press ctrl-alt-del or alt-tab and the scr screen goes away but the process does not and when I kill the scr and boinc manager processes the experiments go on. This happens even though I have selected that they close with the manager. So I had a spare hard drive and a backup from before christmas so I restored my system from then and all worked well, I had been running the 6.5.2 version but it worked perfectly through several windows updates. I installed ATI catalyst 12 and it still worked. When I updated to 6.6 the only problem was that the experiments would not shut down and even when I killed all boinc processes when I shut down the pc I got a box showing that windows was waiting for process boinc to shut down. Not sure what has changed since christmas. Been running boinc for years, not at startup as I need the speed for games but when I know I am going to leave the PC up for a long time I start the process in run always mode and stopped it or set it to run on preferences as needed. Have been running it on XP x64 for at least 3 years with no problems until now. What I did at christmas was replaced an nvidia 8800gt with an ATI HD4870 and though this affected folding at home GPU as I expected I did not expect a problem with boinc. Please advise. Lance

5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc.scr not shutting down, says it is... (Message 22481) Posted 16 Jan 2009 by lanceness Post: Both 75% processor time and 75% of available processors. Does not slow my webwork down a bit in this setting. I guess I will be uninstalling and reinstalling to see if that corrects whatever is making boinc.scr play for keeps.

6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc.scr not shutting down, says it is... (Message 22476) Posted 16 Jan 2009 by lanceness Post: Installed 6.6 and it still does the same thing. It finished two of the three projects from before, now doing rosetta, a new WCG and SETI. Waited for the others to finish as they were all 3 running as high priority due to my playing with folding@home GPU on the new HD4870. No, the screen still goes from the project to a bouncing boinc logo which I have to kill to get rid of. Running always, network always available, 75% processor, 90% memory though it never uses much of 8gb. Let me know if there is something I am missing, I am now trying running it based on preferences which will have it come on after 5 mins like the windows screensaver setting. Lance

7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc.scr not shutting down, says it is... (Message 22475) Posted 16 Jan 2009 by lanceness Post: It was running 3 projects: SETI and two instances of World Community Grid both doing protein folding. I noticed there was a problem and downloaded 6.4.5, I had been running 6.4.2 New drivers were for my new ATI HD4870 which soundly replaced my 2900pro. The drivers are Catalyst 8.12 I will try 6.6, sure. We'll see. Lance

8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc.scr not shutting down, says it is... (Message 22473) Posted 15 Jan 2009 by lanceness Post: I have been running Boinc for years now and have my first problem. Boinc runs fine in the background and as a screensaver but if I move the mouse or touch the keyboard the project screen goes away and is replaced by the bouncing boinc logo with the message "boinc is shutting down" which stays up even when I alt-tab to another program then, having the taskbar, I can shut down boinc manager in the tray. To get rid of it I must kill the process. I am running v6.4.5 on XP x64. It worked fine until a few days ago. I had been running an older version and when this started I looked and found a new version was available and downloaded that. It did not fix the problem. I have installed new video drivers but not much else. Anyone? Thanks. Lance

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