Aaaarrrrrgh, and me seen it first!

(ladali-ladadada)

Perhaps after capt'n and da testin crew.



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Dragons can fly because they don't fit into pirate ships

Aaaarrrrrgh, and me seen it first!

AAarrrrrgggg!
But the screen saver seems to be quite jumpy. Or are that singular pictures?
But they are very pirate-day-like!!!
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Dragons can fly because they don't fit into pirate ships

The validator seems to be off, in spite of being shown as running.
Still no result validated, might this be connected to the hosts problem (in Help-thread)?
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Dragons can fly because they don't fit into pirate ships

AAarrrrrgggg!
But the screen saver seems to be quite jumpy. Or are that singular pictures?
But they are very pirate-day-like!!!

AAarrrrrgggg!
But the screen saver seems to be quite jumpy. Or are that singular pictures?
But they are very pirate-day-like!!!

On a newer box with hardware graphics acceleration it should be a smooth animation, with some nice effects (the logo/sign fade in and out, moves back, etc).

So can anybody see the screensaver scrolling smoothly, as intended? Or do all pirates have old, crappy graphics cards? :-)

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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

So can anybody see the screensaver scrolling smoothly, as intended? Or do all pirates have old, crappy graphics cards? :-)

Yep, only crappy graphic cards here.
But I do notice that even my crappiest laptop (IBM 390e - circa 1999 - that will crash running most BOINC screensavers) will run this screensaver with no problems other than the slideshow effect.
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I also am having very jumpy graphics that appear as static images rather than flowing movement.

WinXP SP2
MSI K9VGM-V main board
VIA K8M890 + VT8237A chipset based
1gb DDR2+ memory
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 128MB onboard memory
Graphics acceleration full
1024 X 768 display mode


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C2D T7200, idle ATI X1600 (i.e. no other changes on screen), plenty of memory, Starboards' graphics thread has higher priority (4-6) than other threads, which consume CPU (means other Boinc apps with prio 1).

Nevertheless the Starboard window is delivering only a (scary ,-) slideshow in approx. 1 second beat, regardless of the window size and the CPU consumption (of the graph. thread alone, the app itself is currently suspended due to the STD) varies between 1%-12%, according to the window size. Nothing smooth compared to the green/red Matrix (character) rainfall.
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Graphics are very jumpy on my laptop.. 1.6G Pentium M, 512M ram, Radeon 9600 mobility integrated card... XP SP2.


It usually displays graphics very smoothly.

In fact, right now I have Einstein@Home graphics open, with the E@H app running (taking abot 100% cPU), Pirates suspended but with graphics open. E@H graphics are nice and smooth.. pirates looks like a slideshow!


Paul

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Very jumpy on my poor old P4 with a GeForce FX 5200. What I see is pretty, though...
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Hi me Cap'n, i hope you turned it off only to improve the graphics???!!!
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FWIW, I finally found and installed the package that has this particular xscreensaver in it. It ran a lot smoother than when it was running through BOINC.

So Eric, are you taking requests for 5.16? .-)
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Hi me Cap'n, i hope you turned it off only to improve the graphics???!!!

FWIW, I finally found and installed the package that has this particular xscreensaver in it. It ran a lot smoother than when it was running through BOINC.

So Eric, are you taking requests for 5.16? .-)

I looked at the rendering loop at how it determines the time of the next frame. It uses a Unix routine called getttimeofday(,). Since this does not exist on Windows I had already written a replacement, but I'm suspicious that my cobbled together version wasn't doing it quite right.

Hey Capt'n, on Win you can use GetTickCount(), it returns the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since the system was started. I think that for our ten minute pirate equipment the time range and resolution are just fine.

I missed the batch of units on my laptop.. but will hopefully get some later on and will check it out!

Paul

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