I've recently upgraded to BOINC 4.27 (the development version) in the hope that this would resolve a long standing problem I've had with the BOINC screen saver trashing Einstein@home results. There's a long thread about that issue on their forum. The new version of BOINC displayed CPDN graphics on my machine successfully in screen saver mode (the first time that's been done) but won't display graphics on reuqest. Shortly after resuming from the screen saver I lost not only my latest Einstein unit but worse my CPDN calculation crashed out too (CPDN had been shown on the screen saver and was running at the time). My machine is a standard HP 9500 with nothing remarkable in the way of graphics (an "out of the box" Intel 82865G graphics controller) running XP professional with service pack 1. It's probably not advisable to run the BOINC graphics if you upgrade to 4.27.

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Hi David
I just posted some comments <a href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=2379"> here,</a> where another person has a problem with the same Intel controller.

No real answer, just some notes for you to consider.

Les

&gt; Hi David
&gt; I just posted some comments <a> href="http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=2379"&gt;
&gt; here,</a> where another person has a problem with the same Intel controller.
&gt;
&gt; No real answer, just some notes for you to consider.
&gt;
&gt; Les
&gt;
Thanks Les. I've added some more information to that thread. I've now upgraded to BOINC 4.30 and I'll try the driver upgrade mentioned there, but with the state of BOINC at the moment, I'm still not going to risk displaying graphics until I've got my latest CPDN work unit safely uploaded.

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