Hi all, I know that Eric Korpela had a thread about this, but its name was that of a private message. A bit difficult to search on, etc.
We get more and more people on the BOINC forums who complain that since they updated to Windows 10 from Windows 7, 8 or 8.1, that the BOINC screen saver doesn't work anymore. Full thread https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=10422 E.g. " Ever since the day i started it in Windows 10, i noticed that i get no preview, or screensaver. I don't really care too much since i did notice that my points per day tripled with the Windows 10 update, but i do leave my monitors on once every so often, and the protection would be nice. I'm running 2 GeForce 760's in SLI with drivers from NVIDIA GeForce experience constantly updating them. Also running 5 SIIG USB 3.0 dual monitor adapters to handle the 6 monitors i have. i don't get screensavers on any of the screens." and "Hi there, guess what? Since upgrading to Windows 10 BOINC screen saver will not run too. Ran fine on 8.1. It appears it's trying to start once every second, however when I look under 'tasks' in BOINC Mgr it show all is running fine. Sounds like lots of people are having the issue. Any ideas? Thank you ..." Now, in some cases it can possibly be that Windows Update installs a driver version that doesn't contain OpenGL, but I'm not sure it's true in all of these cases. I'll ask people to install GPU Caps Viewer to see if they have OpenGL installed. Anything else? Ta, -- Jord van der Elst. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
