any info on the seti team?

[Assimilator1]

Also make sure that you have the window minimised when the screensaver hasn't kicked in

Hey Sukhoi ,you mean like this? ATM

 

[DarthSideous]

I think what happened was I turned off the screensaver and just let the program run from the system tray..now I have the screensaver set to go off and blank screen set at 2 min...

 

[ElFenix]

running in the systray and still taking 29 hours? thats realllllly weird. it would make more sense if you had the graphics showing somehow... those take up like 50% of processing time. i'm trying to figure this out. the scr version doesn't have the VLAR problem AFAIK, so thats not it. hmmm...

 

[DarthSideous]

running much better now, I have the screen saver blacking out in 1 min, did 46% in 2 hours 40 mins....thanks for the help guys

 

[Sukhoi]

Ah, very good. If you want the best performance possible, you should run the CLI with SETI Driver. SETI Driver lets you cache work units, so you won't be left dry if the servers go down.

How to install SETI Driver and the CLI

 

[DarthSideous]

ok I installed the cli and seti driver, I left the seti client priority on low..is this ok? and now do I let it run all the time? I was liking the screen saver because it would run when I wasn't using the pc.. If I want to run like that do I exit the seti driver when using the pc and start it again when leaving?

 

[ColinP]

It only uses idle CPU cycles so it shouldn't affect performance at all..
Leave it on all the time.



Col

 

[Assimilator1]

Unless playing some modern games ,it might cause pauses in them & will certainly increase WU times!.
Oh, you'll want to stop it when defragging the drive its on.

 

[DarthSideous]

should I change the client priority at all?

 

[ElFenix]

if the priority is set to low then windows will run all normal priority programs (ie, icq, games, pr0n, etc.) first, so that seti doesn't take away from them. personally, i play games with seti on, too much of a hastle to turn it on and off. especially since i run it hidden.

 

[DarthSideous]

ok only a few more questions..hehe, I'm getting alittle instability now, when I run the gui screensaver my machine is fine it'll run all day and night with no errors,cpu temps top out at 51c, with the cli I'm starting to get some crashes now, temps are alittle higher 53c, is this version that much more demanding on the cpu or is it possible I didn't install it correctly?

 

[lane42]

Darth, Try lowering your FSB a notch. Had mine at 110 with gui and when i switched to cli i got random lockups. lowered FSB to 109 and that did the trick.

 

[Orange Kid]

DarthSideous; the cli is i little less 'nice' than the gui <thus the faster times>.makes a good test of how stable your system is like lane42 says, i'd drop the fsb a little...too high will give bad results in seti anyway. most of us leave it running all the time ,even when gaming. it will only slow you down a bit and i haven't had any problems doing both the only time i shut it down <gaming wise> is if it's gonna be a heavy ut night