To my knowledge, bittorrent has not yet been implemented by BOINC, but is still on the board. And in order for it to save you any bandwidth, you have to have the identical file being downloaded by multiple hosts at the same time. I'm still not clear on what the odds of that happening actually are.

And I've not seen much doc. describing the details of bittorrent, but it would seem to me that your machine would have to permit an incoming internet connection, and almost noone runs BOINC on such a server. And that if it doesn't work that way, that you would have to send the file to a central site where it gets resent to one specific requesting client. So now the "improved" download of the file travels across the internet twice. Seems rather wasteful. Perhaps someone can enlighten me on the mechanics of the dataflows of bittorrent.

The advantage the TV folks have is the relatively small number of channels possible for people to watch (as compared to all the files in a project's download directory). And the fact that the data (TV signal) is done in realtime, i.e. you don't have to begin the program again when a new person turns on their TV set (except perhaps for the on demand type of movies). Are you saying the movies use some sort of peer-to-peer system? Would seem to quickly lend itself to people stealing the movies.

OK ran DxDiag, all test successful. How do i check that dual monitor is disabled when i dont have the catilyst isnt installed only the ati driver and the wmd driver?

Right click your desktop and goto properties -- Settings -- Advanced. Under there somewhere should be a setup for dual-monitor. If not, then I think the default is "clone" meaning put the same screen on both video card outputs. While you're in there, make sure the monitor type is set correctly; either pick your exact monitor or choose "plug and play monitor". If there is a solution, it's either in the advanced properties somewhere or in the registry (grrr).

Perhaps someone else who has more experience with ATI can help. I just got my first ATI card working last week. :)

hi i have reinstalled 7.6 and the first thing that happened after rebooting and looking at the boinc graphics... frooze and had to manually reboot the system.

directx is updated

Did you fully remove the other version of the dirvers first ?
Newer verions may have different files and it may leave the newer driver version causing problems.

Remove all drivers for ATI reboot and try again.

May not work, but at least it's definatly not a proble.

also check you motherboard drivers.... these have graphics related parts..

also set it to single display output...

(just some things to work through).



Does showing the Seti graphics cause this problem ?

Im not running seti anymore, i like rosetta and only run 2 wus at a time you say to set it to single display? ati or boinc? i dont have the catalyst installed just the wdm and the actual driver. i do always reboot before reinstalling new drivers

hi i have reinstalled 7.6 and the first thing that happened after rebooting and looking at the boinc graphics... frooze and had to manually reboot the system.

directx is updated

I completely disagree with you Angus. Credits are great because it motivates people to crunch for these projects. It makes crunching for a lot of people far more attractive than it would have been if there wouldn't have been a credit system. And it stimulates competition which benefits the projects.

I think your rant at David Anderson is unjustified. The BOINC platform is a fantastic concept; it makes it possible for the crunchers to switch between projects in seconds and to ad new projects in a minutes. It's also a big improvement for project leaders, it gives them a free platform to build their applications on and they can attract a lot of crunchers with little effort.

A credit system is a good thing, the BOINC-platform is a great thing, the only problem is that there is no way to impose a framework, which all projects have to oblige to, when they grant credits. The original benchmark idea was a good start but it turned out to be flawed(optimized clients and so on).

I think that fixed credits, i.e. the projects determine the granted credits, is the only way to go(but I'm not sure if every project can implement it). And more importantly, fixed credits should be equal across the different project which could be done if projects run the original BOINC benchmarks locally on some benchmark machines and grant fixed credits on that basis.