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Message 1585598 - Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 2:10:38 UTC

Hi peeps,

Where can I find the setting to enable graphics during the screen saver on the mac?

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Message 1585604 - Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 2:19:03 UTC - in response to Message 1585598.  
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You know it's been so long since I've seen the screensaver I almost forgot that it exist, lol. You should be able to find the screensaver setting in your system preference folder down on your task bar (looks like a square box with gears in it) Once you click on it you should see the screensaver and desktop icon on the top row. Click on that and and it should show you the BOINC screensaver on the right side and a button at the bottom of it, if it doesn't then on the left side go down till you find BOINC and click on it to change the screensaver to BOINC. You can set your preferences to when it should start and how often to change, etc.. I see you have already completed a iGPU work unit, congrats. Just have to wait for it to validate.


Happy Crunching...

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Edit....I'm not sure since we just change to a new application but you might not get the Classic 3D version of SETI@home Classic's 2D graphics, with the addition of a moving starfield and a swiveling/rotating motion:

They have started use the built in graphic card to process work units, so I think I remember them saying you won't get the old graphic display but more of a listing of what work units are running and their progression. It has to do with the graphic card trying to do 2 things, display the 3 d graphic and process the work unit, so they opted for just showing a progress bar. If you choose to disable the graphic card they it might then start to show the old graphic, but truefully, using the graphic to do work is much faster than using the CPU. 2 hours compared to 12 hours. So you might just want to leave it. I'll keep checking and if I found out something different, I'll add another post.
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Message 1585619 - Posted: 12 Oct 2014, 3:55:05 UTC
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The screen saver settings are in the BOINC screen saver. You access these settings from the control panel -> ... -> Screen Savers. The middle part changes a bit depending on the version of Windows. On Windows 7, it is either:
1) Control Panel -> Personalization -> Screen Saver
OR
2) Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Personalization -> Screen Saver

Depending on whether or not you have View by Category or View by Icons selected.

That said, not all graphics setups are able to handle both the screen saver graphics and crunching on a GPU at the same time.


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