Dave Trapnell <dtresearch@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<5doclv0uq6oh9evm3935asb598og72ghp8@4ax.com>...

"Henk H" <echoput@xs4all.nl> wrote:

And YES yours does STILL draw the pretty pictures, you have
just elected to not see them. They are still there if you choose to
view them, meaning that the computer still has to generate them.

No, the 'blank screen' option is a SETI-client setting that speeds
things up by about 60% and that can only be done by skipping the
generating of graphics. It is not a Windows 'Display Power Saving'
setting. But the two are easily confused.
((HH))

When I get the time, I want to compare the CLI version with
the "optimized" GUI version, that is, with the screensaver
set to "none" or "blank".
DT

A lot of people have been getting about 20 percent higher calculation
speed by using the CLI over the optimized GUI. This was true for me
but may vary with machine.