"Eric" <nospam@nospam.npm> wrote in message news:oImOg.30$L15.19@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...

Has anyone else had a problem with Boinc and Vista like this?

I have another computer here that I've also been playing around with Vista in. (Its also running Boinc, as a service.)

Its set to always run Boinc, but I just KVC'd over to set Boinc (and also online SETI settings) appropriately to see if Boinc would suspend the SETI clients (its a dual Pentium) while in use.  I even restarted the Boinc service, after updating, for good measure.

I see the same behavior as you do:  Boinc doesn't suspend the SETI clients after coming out of idle.

I'm sure it'll be fixed.  Its probably a Vista, not Boinc, problem anyway. Vista still has lots of issues...

I'm running an older version of Boinc (5.2.13?) on the work computers, so I don't know if the current version is the problem or if it's Vista.

Either way, I've removed Boinc from this machine - I need it free of extra processes. So no more crunching on this puppy until I get it sorted out.

:-(

(FWIW: That computer is running Vista Beta2, Build 5384.)

I'm on Vista RC1 5600...a big improvement over Beta2. Most programs run just fine now, whereas with Beta2 I couldn't get half of my software to run at all. Kinda hard to test an OS if you can't run anything.

:-)

BTW: Do you have Aero Glass working?  I tried to get it up and going, but I don't think the video card in that computer will do it. Oh well.

Yes Aero Glass is working here.

Aero doesn't need as much as some people think - any decent card with proper drivers, DirectX 9, and 64megs of video memory should run it, although 128megs is probably faster and smoother. I used Beta2 on a machine with an older Geforce 6600 and 128megs just fine. Compared to this speedy machine I'm on now, I doubt I could tell the difference.