Over-sized graphics?
24 Jan 2018 17:27:52 UTC
Topic 212916
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Hello;
I have been running Einstein@home on several computers for several years. I have had a problem
come up that I need help solving. The graphics display of the "constellation globe" is over-sized.
I was migrating my account from one laptop to another (both running Win10 and boinc 7.8.3).
WhenE@W runs on the new laptop, the graphics are over-sized so that I see only about a quarter of
the globe covering the whole screen. I also run SETI@home, and it displays normally.
Are there any ideas on how I can correct this error and see the proper display when E@H is running?
Thanks,
ceetiger
I have tried removing E@H
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I have tried removing E@H from my BOINC manager, and then adding it again, but the problem still remains.
As additional information, my old laptop was a Toshiba Satellite, 17 inch, and E@H ran just fine on this machine. My new laptop is an HP Envy, 17 inch.
Ed
What are the screen
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What are the screen resolutions on your old and new laptops?
What are your 'Graphics settings' here: https://einsteinathome.org/account/prefs/project
What happens if you put smaller values for window width and height?
Hello Richie; I checked
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Hello Richie;
I checked my settings, and they were exactly as you had them shown on the link.
I tried to adjust mine to lower width and height (400 and 300; then 600 and 450)
and I got error messages saying they were out of range. So I tried doubling them
to 1600 and 1200, but the display results for E@H did not change. They still appear
as over-sized.
Any other ideas to try?
And thanks for you response and your help on this.
Ed
On the screen resolution,
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On the screen resolution, that is indeed the problem it seems. The old laptop was
1920 x 1080. This new one is 3840 x 2160. I tried dialing the new one back to match
the old setting, and the E@H display shows normally. But my screen icons and other displays
were scrunched down so that they are not readable by my tired old eyes.
Is there some way to "fool" E@H into using the smaller resolution setting, without disturbing
everything else on this laptop?
Ed
Ed_36 skrev:Hello Richie; I
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The link Richie posted will point the the users own settings independent on who clicks it, ie if I click it I will see my own project settings, not Richie's.
After you changed the values for the window width och height did you scroll down and click save, and after that opened up Boinc Manager on your computer and on the Projects tab clicked on Einstein@home and then the Update button on the left? After that the new setting should be in effect.
My settings for width and height are: 800 x 600
Try setting 640 x 480 and see if that works. Or maybe go the other way and try 1024 x 768.
In your screen resolution settings in Windows, what's the setting for "Scaling"? 100% or more? If higher than 100% try lowering it.
Hello Holmis/Ed_36; I
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Hello Holmis/Ed_36;
I followed your suggestions, and changing then saving and updating the settings for width and height
as you recommended. It made no difference which way I went, so I am back to 800 x 600 now. The
"scaling" setting on this laptop is 250%, the recommended factory setting. I changed this to 100%, and
that gave me the "full" E@H graphics globe, but it shrunk everything else on the laptop to 1/4 scale.
I can change the resolution from the factory recommended setting of 3840x2160, to 1920x1080 and I
also then get the correct size for E@H, but again this change makes everything else on the laptop 1/4
scale.
I would note that I am also running SETI@H, and I do not have this problem at all with SETI@H.
So I am still in need of a fix for this issue.
Ed
It might be that the
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It might be that the Einstein@home graphic application doesn't work with scaling. If I remember correctly it's quite old and hasn't been updated for many years. So it might not be possible to get an easy fix for this unless the project or someone else updates the screensaver code.
The thread Write your own Einstein@home screensaver have instructions for building the screensaver in the opening message and links to the source code a few posts later, but the links doesn't work since we moved to the new site, could probably be reposted if someone likes to take a look.
Thank you for your time and
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Thank you for your time and your help. I am not a coder, so I don't think I can re-write thecode to fix my issue. If no one is responsible for the code now, then I will just have to either live with it, or drop the project altogether. It is shame, as I enjoy running E@H, but I don't like that it is not displaying properly.
Ed
One of the things going on
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One of the things going on here is that you, Ed, are at the intersection of two somewhat uncommon things. One is your use of an extremely high-resolution display. I, myself, started using a 4K monitor on my primary personal machine some months ago, and I notice from time to time things that don't work on it that work elsewhere, I think just because it is 4K and the combinations of code that give an undesirable result don't get attended to.
The other is your use of the screensaver at all here. While when I started at SETI, over a decade ago, I ran the screensaver, it did not take long to notice that I was losing about half my potential SETI performance to running the screensaver, after which I turned it off and have never resumed either there or here at Einstein. I suspect the great majority of serious users here don't run the project screensaver either.
By the way, one pretty important program that does not work well with my 4K monitor is my expensive copy of Adobe Photoshop. This is not just a matter of little fly-by-night outfits.
Thanks for the comments,
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Thanks for the comments, Archae86. I appreciate and understand your comments, but as you say, 4K monitors are here now and will continue to grow in popularity.
So I would hope that someone responsible for this E@H coding would pick up on this and try to resolve it. I won't be the only one with this problem for sure.
As for the screensaver operations, I happen to enjoy watching them, as do others that see my laptop when they are running. So even if I may be sacrificing some performance, I can live with that. I have accumulated 5.58M credits on E@H, and 27.7M credits on SETI, so I think I am performing a good level of service to both projects.
Ed