RE: Mersenne: W2K screen saver vs. Prime95

2001-05-08 Thread Russel Brooks
> On my Win2K boxes here the "default" screen saver is a blank screen. It > doesn't look that way when you select it, but it is. I just tested it and it > didn't steal a single cpu cycle from Prime95. Yeah, it doesn't look like a blank screen so I didn't try it. Thanks for the pointers to the "De

Re: Mersenne: W2K screen saver vs. Prime95

2001-05-08 Thread Steve
>From my experience with dozens of cases on all flavors of Windows, the power save mode has no effect on screensavers. They will continue running with the monitor off. The ones with sound effects (such as "underwater") continue producing their noises. If anyone has any ideas on how to make it oth