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Moses Lambert Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 2 Credit: 277,859 RAC: 0 |
Whenever I try to run the BOINC screensaver, it flashes, flickers and judders insanely. How can I make it run properly? Also, is there a way to tell it that I only want to see the SETIsaver? |
John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0 |
Whenever I try to run the BOINC screensaver, it flashes, flickers and judders insanely. How can I make it run properly? The last question first: Since you are running several projects, no, you cannot show the SETI screen saver only. You can, however go to the settings for the BOINC screen saver and show only the project screen savers. As for the first question: We probably need some more information about the problem. Which portion of the screen saver is running at the time? BOINC WIKI |
BilBg Send message Joined: 27 May 07 Posts: 3720 Credit: 9,385,827 RAC: 0 |
Very probably some background program is interfering, something that uses/probes the video card. It may be some Gadget or Hardware Monitoring program that shows GPU related things (e.g. MHz, used VRAM, Temperatures). Or some media player. Or some program that want (is set) to be 'On-Top' (so it try to be 'On-Top' the screensaver (and all screensavers also try to be 'On-Top' of everything so they 'fight')) AMD ATI Radeon HD 5x00 series (Redwood) (1024MB) driver: 1.4.553 Or it may be that old driver you are using (1.4.553 == Catalyst 10.2 (2010.Feb)) http://www.hal6000.com/seti/boinc_ati_gpu_cheat_sheet.htm  - ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)  |
Moses Lambert Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 2 Credit: 277,859 RAC: 0 |
Not sure what you mean by portion of the screensaver. If you mean What Image, well, it seems to be showing the globe from Climate Analysis. |
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