I cant get the screen saver to work :(

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Message 1164723 - Posted: 23 Oct 2011, 8:35:57 UTC

Hi everone, I have not used seti in a long time, I have just down loaded it But I cant seem to get the screen saver to work, all that comes up is the Boinc image and then writting over the top saying the stats, this is what i have for the settings

Screen saver - Boinc (comes up with no other option apparet from the standard windows b)
Settings - Blank = never, Run Bonic = Never, Run Project = 45, Switch = Never

oh im using a dell xps on windows 7 if thats any help :)

Hope someone can help me xxx
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Message 1164739 - Posted: 23 Oct 2011, 11:21:18 UTC - in response to Message 1164723.  

You wouldn't want the screen saver to work anyway as you have a lot of work in cache that will be done on your videocard's GPU(s) ([2] NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT (512MB) driver: 28538).

While it is possible these days to do graphics at the same time of doing calculations on the videocard, the project admins here have chosen not to release a graphics application for their CUDA application. This because it can corrupt the work you run, as both the calculations being done and the graphics/screen saver use the same internal parts of the videocard. Only one can use them at a time and be stable on lower end videocards.
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