Blank Screensaver

Adrian
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Topic 187582

Firstly let me apologise if this has been asked elsewhere before, I searched and could not find anything. My screensaver was working, now it isn't. The WU is still crunching, but I like to watch the pretty pictures sometimes. At the moment it is just a white rectangle. Any ideas with regards to what is wrong or what I can do to have my eyes amused again?

Thanks, Adrian.

Astro
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Blank Screensaver

If you're attached to more than one project, then check the graphic when Einstein is Running and not Paused.

It only works when Einstein is running.

does this help?

S@NL - EJG
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What happened between the

What happened between the time it still worked and now? Did you upgrade Boinc e.g.? What version do you use? :-)

Bernd Machenschalk
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> What happened between the

Message 2937 in response to message 2936

> What happened between the time it still worked and now? Did you upgrade Boinc
> e.g.? What version do you use? :-)

Good question - and consider it can be anything, e.q. a (automatic?) Windows update that is incompatible with the (OpenGL part of the) graphics driver. Do other OpenGL applications (e.g. FlowerBox screensaver) work properly on your machine?

BM

BM

Keck_Komputers
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> > What happened between the

Message 2938 in response to message 2937

> > What happened between the time it still worked and now? Did you upgrade
> Boinc
> > e.g.? What version do you use? :-)
>
> Good question - and consider it can be anything, e.q. a (automatic?) Windows
> update that is incompatible with the (OpenGL part of the) graphics driver. Do
> other OpenGL applications (e.g. FlowerBox screensaver) work properly on your
> machine?
>
> BM
>
FlowerBox is a bad test screensaver, it and any other screensaver with '3D' in the title will cause the computer to hang when any distributed computing project is running. So make sure you stop BOINC before you try it.

BOINC WIKI

BOINCing since 2002/12/8

littleBouncer
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I posted this (trouble with

I posted this (trouble with screensaver)several times before ( first at pirates ).

Never got any replies (eher im Gegenteil!).
So now it seems: "I'm not the only one"
You will see there are coming more and more...

:-(
littleBouncer

Adrian
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Thankyou all for your

Thankyou all for your assistance, I do not have the time to reply to everyone's post individually, so I will try and reply in general.

Einstein@home was running when the screensaver was blank
I am running 4.79 and I did not upgrade between work units
Normally the 3D screensavers work fine (and they still do when I shut Boinc), but I did have some difficulty with it when BOINC was running (ie it took forever to load and was somewhat jerky)

Einstein is not running at the moment so I can't say if my reboot has helped at all.

Thankyou for your help.

Adrian
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Reboot fixed it, now this WU

Reboot fixed it, now this WU has a screensaver (same WU).

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