In this forum, Mike Mars UK (I have printed his message with this name, hope it\'s about correct) suggested among other things (to prevent new crashes of my Climate Prediction work unit) to \"update graphics drivers and openGL drivers\". First thing I\'ve done. I still don\'t know where to go for the 2nd (if it\'s not just a misunderstanding). In the discussion there was also a web link to Thyme Lawn saying \"The graphics window and screensaver are generated using an OpenGL (...) You can download a free program to test the level of functionality supported by your graphics card from this page\", the last words acting as a web link to www.realtech-vr.com/glview/download.html, which I followed. I did this test and the result was , which came after the message . Am I right in considering that the test was OK because there was a pass for 1.2 ? Is this all that had to be done concerning openGL drivers ?

According to Thyme, you should be OK in terms of the level of functionality for OpenGL that is needed.

I\'m guessing you have an integrated Intel graphics device?

If so, where did you get your updated driver?

I know someone on the BBC board came to a dead end with an Intel 845 integrated graphics chip - the most up to date drivers still failed the test. But I don\'t know whether the things she passed on were enough to run the model or not (that was in the days of 5.07), and also I don\'t know if her system would have worked with 5.08.

Don\'t know where she got her drivers from, MS or Intel?

But you can continue looking at the other possible factors on the list (http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=4231) in case the graphics warnings are a red herring.

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After the first three WU\'s crashed on me while using the graphics/screen saver, even though two apparently were just bad WU\'s, I am nearing the first 100% completeion (should be today)...perhaps onkly coincidentally because I no longer use the graphics.

I no longer use the graphics for that and a few other reasons. Even with a 512 meg vid card, and the most up-to-date drivers, I notice a marked slow down. Cuttingthe XpPro swap file to zero seems to improve this a tad, and I see physical RAM useage increase (1.024 gigs at the moment). I run a slight overclock (10%...3.2 GHtz roughly) and that also seems to slightly improve some other minor issues I was seeing connected to BOINC.

A friend is running an AMD 64 bit cpu mobo and I am running a P4D and there appears little advantage to the AMD inthe real world. We run the same WU\'s (Seti, CPDN and Einstein), same amount of RAM, wirtually same clock speed cpu\'s.....yet his AMD will finish less than an hour ahead of me. So if anyone\'s wondering, for the extra $100 or so for the AMD....he doesn\'t think it was worth it.

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According to Thyme, you should be OK in terms of the level of functionality for OpenGL that is needed.

Fine.

I\'m guessing you have an integrated Intel graphics device?

I don\'t know what this means, so I can\'t answer this question !
[/quote]If so, where did you get your updated driver?[/quote]
I looked into the device manager to find the name of my graphics card,
entered this into Google, which found the appropriate web site for me ...

But what about updating the openGL driver itself ? Have I finished with this ?

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