How can you totally disable graphics? .... so that CPU is not wasted on drawing something no one will ever see...

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The only way is to disable the Screensaver so no graphics is used.

The Graphic is only rendered when richt clicking on the WU!

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> The only way is to disable the Screensaver so no graphics is used.
>
> The Graphic is only rendered when richt clicking on the WU!
>

If this is true, why do I have almost 5.5 hours per WU with boinc (the same time as GUI Seti-classic) but I had about 4.5 hours with the command line interface of old seti?
Shouldnt I have 4.5 hours per workunit with boinc when I never look at the graphics? I have screensaver off, and I dont look at the graphics.

> > The only way is to disable the Screensaver so no graphics is used.
> >
> > The Graphic is only rendered when richt clicking on the WU!
> >
>
> If this is true, why do I have almost 5.5 hours per WU with boinc (the same
> time as GUI Seti-classic) but I had about 4.5 hours with the command line
> interface of old seti?
> Shouldnt I have 4.5 hours per workunit with boinc when I never look at the
> graphics? I have screensaver off, and I dont look at the graphics.
>
Installing BOINC automatically enables the screen saver. Go to your control panel, select display, select screen saver. Set it to either blank or default (depends on the OS).

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> > > The only way is to disable the Screensaver so no graphics is used.
> > >
> > > The Graphic is only rendered when richt clicking on the WU!
> > >
> >
> > If this is true, why do I have almost 5.5 hours per WU with boinc (the
> same
> > time as GUI Seti-classic) but I had about 4.5 hours with the command
> line
> > interface of old seti?
> > Shouldnt I have 4.5 hours per workunit with boinc when I never look at
> the
> > graphics? I have screensaver off, and I dont look at the graphics.
> >
> Installing BOINC automatically enables the screen saver. Go to your control
> panel, select display, select screen saver. Set it to either blank or default
> (depends on the OS).
>

I read somewhere that S@H classic uses CPU to create graphics even when the user chose not to display it, and that's why most prefer command-line. So my question was, is that true for BONIC too?

When I use BONIC, my average CPU time for each WU has decreased to 7 hours from 10-11 hours, so I believe that BONIC functions more like the command-line than S@H. However, I set the max CPU used for graphics to .000001% (a negligible amount; "0%" doesn't work for some reason, the graphics continue anyways).

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> I read somewhere that S@H classic uses CPU to create graphics even when the
> user chose not to display it, and that's why most prefer command-line. So my
> question was, is that true for BONIC too?
>
> When I use BONIC, my average CPU time for each WU has decreased to 7 hours
> from 10-11 hours, so I believe that BONIC functions more like the command-line
> than S@H. However, I set the max CPU used for graphics to .000001% (a
> negligible amount; "0%" doesn't work for some reason, the graphics continue
> anyways).
>
I don't believe that BOINC does the graphics unless they are being displayed. The max % for graphics only does anything if graphics are actually being displayed.

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Yes in Windows go to your desk top. Right click the desktop. Select Properties, at the bottom of the list, select the Screen Saver tab. In the list you can see BOINIC as the screensaver. select any other screensaver or (None). BOINIC will continue to run in the background even if the screen saver isn't running.

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> The only way is to disable the Screensaver so no graphics is used.
>
> The Graphic is only rendered when richt clicking on the WU!
>
Ok, I have a NVIDIA graphics; ever since i installed this card and their software the "Screen Saver" tab has been removed.

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> Ok, I have a NVIDIA graphics; ever since i installed this card and their
> software the "Screen Saver" tab has been removed.

If you go the the hardware manager, can you see a question mark on your graphic card or some info telling you there is a problem with it?

If you are in the hardware manager and double click on your graphic adaptor, you should be able to see the hardware status of it. Any indication that it is working OK or not?

> > Ok, I have a NVIDIA graphics; ever since i installed this card and their
> > software the "Screen Saver" tab has been removed.
>
> If you go the the hardware manager, can you see a question mark on your
> graphic card or some info telling you there is a problem with it?
>
> If you are in the hardware manager and double click on your graphic adaptor,
> you should be able to see the hardware status of it. Any indication that it is
> working OK or not?
>
Nope, no indication that my adaptor is not working; no question mark; nada.

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