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Message 7096 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009 | 3:35:25 UTC

The changes to the screensaver in 6.4.6 broke it completely for me. It no longer launches the client at all. Also the setting "Go to blank screen" has no effect either. It basically just shows the "BOINC is not running. Please launch BOINC to display graphics" image and does nothing else.

In 6.4.5 the screensaver still worked (but that version had its high CPU usage issues with GPUGRID). I also tried 6.6.11 with the same result (installed with the "Use BOINC screensaver" option). Otherwise either version works just fine from the BOINC Manager. Checked the firewall, no issues there (access to localhost granted to the screensaver).

Is there any instrumented version I could run, since the screensaver leaves no logs that I'm aware of when the client is not even started (checked the "Data" directory).

Windows XP Pro SP3, 8800GT with the 182.06 driver. Message digest for the digital signature on the 6.6.11.0 boinc.scr in my WINNT directory is:
04 14 fd 34 c7 80 e4 de ...4....
8b dc 2c 3b 5f 0a 8f ef ..,;_...
90 af bb d0 e6 4e .....N

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Message 7116 - Posted: 2 Mar 2009 | 22:23:06 UTC - in response to Message 7096.

Sounds like you found some bug which should be reported to the BOINC devs.. but I never care about the screen saver, so I'm not sure.

In the mean time some comments for you:

- you could use the BOINC option "only work if PC has been idle for xx mins" instead of the screen saver

- 6.4.5 may have scheduling issues, but doesn't have high CPU usage issues with GPU-Grid (as far as I know); what you may be talking about is the GPU-Grid clients prior to the current 6.62

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