Something one of the users wrote in the thread: *************** "I managed to get the screensaver run, but I don't know exactly how. At first it did NOT run.
I went to Windows personalize... lock screen... screen saver settings. I chose "BOINC". I didn't change anything under the "Settings..." tab. Preview run OK. I set "Wait" to 1 minutes and apply + OK. Then exit everything and waited. No open programs, no movement, only Boinc client running in the background. Screensaver never run. Then I located Boinc program directory and boincsvr.exe. I tried all the compatibility modes for that file (file properties... compatibility... "Disable display scaling...", "Run this program as admimistrator" and one at a time all the different Windows versions). That didn't make it work. Then I went back to Windows personalize... lock screen... screen saver settings. I see there was also a screensaver called "PBOINC". It had been there already at the first time. Now I chose that "PBOINC" and tried the preview. Screensaver only flashed on the screen, but I think that happened because maybe I accidentally moved the mouse a little bit. Now comes the strange part. There was no more screensaver called "PBOINC". It had disappeared from the list after that short preview. The regular "BOINC" had been automatically chosen again. Well, then I tried preview for that regular "BOINC" again and it worked. I went back to desktop and waited.... and now the screensaver RUN after 1 minute ! Then I started to remove the compatibility modes for the boincsvr.exe. In the end, I had removed them all and screensaver was still able to run after 1 minute. Ps. I had set the "Screen timeout setting" to "Never" already long time ago. I didn't touch that setting. My setup: W10 build 10525, Boinc 7.6.8 x64, Nvidia GTX 960 + driver 355.80, this host is only crunching for Einstein@Home at the moment" **************** Looking on the Interweb, http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Operating-Systems-Software-Recovery/Screensaver-and-power-otions-not-working-after-Win10-update/td-p/5201176 shows it is not a BOINC problem. -- Jord van der Elst. On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Jord van der Elst <els...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
