In the general preferences you can set the % of CPU time that the screen saver is allowed to use. The default is 50% which I believe is much too large. I have mine set to 5% and just put up with the choppy screen savers on the slowest machines.
The graphics make heavy use of OpenGL. If your graphic card doesn't support hardware acceleration for it, it is done in software by Windows OpenGL lib, thus occupying a lot of CPU. If you have a "dumb" graphics card you may be better off completely turning off the screensaver.
> The graphics make heavy use of OpenGL. If your graphic card doesn't support
> hardware acceleration for it, it is done in software by Windows OpenGL lib,
> thus occupying a lot of CPU. If you have a "dumb" graphics card you may be
> better off completely turning off the screensaver.
>
> BM
>
> > The graphics make heavy use of OpenGL. If your graphic card doesn't
> support
> > hardware acceleration for it, it is done in software by Windows OpenGL
> lib,
> > thus occupying a lot of CPU. If you have a "dumb" graphics card you may
> be
> > better off completely turning off the screensaver.
> >
> > BM
> >
>
Boinc Screen Saver is active -> (almost) No WU Processing
)
Turn off the Screen Saver ... ;)
Really, I've never run any of the Screen Savers because their notorious for hogging resources ...
In the general preferences
)
In the general preferences you can set the % of CPU time that the screen saver is allowed to use. The default is 50% which I believe is much too large. I have mine set to 5% and just put up with the choppy screen savers on the slowest machines.
BOINC WIKI
The graphics make heavy use
)
The graphics make heavy use of OpenGL. If your graphic card doesn't support hardware acceleration for it, it is done in software by Windows OpenGL lib, thus occupying a lot of CPU. If you have a "dumb" graphics card you may be better off completely turning off the screensaver.
BM
BM
> The graphics make heavy use
)
> The graphics make heavy use of OpenGL. If your graphic card doesn't support
> hardware acceleration for it, it is done in software by Windows OpenGL lib,
> thus occupying a lot of CPU. If you have a "dumb" graphics card you may be
> better off completely turning off the screensaver.
>
> BM
>
> > The graphics make heavy
)
> > The graphics make heavy use of OpenGL. If your graphic card doesn't
> support
> > hardware acceleration for it, it is done in software by Windows OpenGL
> lib,
> > thus occupying a lot of CPU. If you have a "dumb" graphics card you may
> be
> > better off completely turning off the screensaver.
> >
> > BM
> >
>
Thank you all for helpful ideas