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Message 1163201 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 15:11:11 UTC

... when video drivers will avaliable after user have logged in. The idea is BOINC must checking from time to time whether GPU is avaliable, and if yes, then start GPU crunching.

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Message 1163221 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 16:23:31 UTC - in response to Message 1163201.

As I recall this isn't a BOINC problem but a Windows problem. That makes it unlikely to get fixed
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Message 1163270 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 18:39:53 UTC - in response to Message 1163221.

As I understood, the windows problem is that videodriver doesn't available for services before any user will log on. So after user will log on and videodriver begin avaliable for services, the windows problems become the BOINC problem - why it doesn't seize power on GPU?
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Message 1163275 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 18:57:35 UTC - in response to Message 1163270.

The video driver becomes available to the user who has logged on, not to the service running the BOINC applications.

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Message 1163294 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 19:47:18 UTC - in response to Message 1163275.

Can't BOINC, as a service, check to see if a user session has been initiated (logged on) periodically and hook into the OpenCL driver when available?

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Message 1163329 - Posted: 17 Oct 2011, 23:25:13 UTC - in response to Message 1163294.

I'm not sure if a service is allowed access to a user's resources (especially under windows 7), but I'm no expert in that matter.

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Message 1164376 - Posted: 21 Oct 2011, 23:07:53 UTC - in response to Message 1163329.

I'm not sure if a service is allowed access to a user's resources (especially under windows 7), but I'm no expert in that matter.

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Not really, but it is possible. You have to have the service start with several "god" bits set so that you can impersonate any login account on the system, and can access any session, and can act as a part of the operating system. And then it is about 50 lines of rather convoluted code to avoid tripping the UAC every time you try.
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