I have got an interresting and -i swear- true story to share about Rosetta@home. My computer currently *needs* it for its stability!

I have been plagued for a long time on my notebook by erratic blackouts of several minutes followed by the Windows message "display driver has stopped working and has recovered". I tried pretty much everything without luck. The Internet is full of similar stories and many users still look for a solution.
The most probable cause for these blackouts originates from a somewhat overoptimization of the GPU power management. When the GPU has nothing to do, the GPU power supply is throttled so deep that it stops working correctly and misses to restart to the specs. The Registry fix from Microsoft to extend the lag time did not help.
Since the manufacturers don't appear to care and provide the necessary correction for the DSDT of my BIOS(my GPU is already phased out),
I had the idea to just prevent my GPU being idle...
BOINC is the perfect programm for that sake, i could set it up to use permanently 10% of my GPU ressources and since then never experienced another blackout! These 10% are perfectly unobtrusive.
Thank you Rosetta@home, you do help ME more than I do help you!
;-)
Michel

I have got an interresting and -i swear- true story to share about Rosetta@home. My computer currently *needs* it for its stability!

I have been plagued for a long time on my notebook by erratic blackouts of several minutes followed by the Windows message "display driver has stopped working and has recovered". I tried pretty much everything without luck. The Internet is full of similar stories and many users still look for a solution.
The most probable cause for these blackouts originates from a somewhat overoptimization of the GPU power management. When the GPU has nothing to do, the GPU power supply is throttled so deep that it stops working correctly and misses to restart to the specs. The Registry fix from Microsoft to extend the lag time did not help.
Since the manufacturers don't appear to care and provide the necessary correction for the DSDT of my BIOS(my GPU is already phased out),
I had the idea to just prevent my GPU being idle...
BOINC is the perfect programm for that sake, i could set it up to use permanently 10% of my GPU ressources and since then never experienced another blackout! These 10% are perfectly unobtrusive.
Thank you Rosetta@home, you do help ME more than I do help you!
;-)
Michel

Do you have an Nvidia gpu in that machine? If so this is a KNOWN problem with some machines and Windows! I just fixed my sons desktop by swapping out the Nvidia gpu and putting an AMD one and no more problems! Do an internet search and there are tons of ideas to fix the problem, but it is a Windows timing thing and Nvidia is aware or it and has been trying to fix it for a LONG time!

Oh and Rosetta does NOT use the gpu while you are crunching its units, it is a cpu based project, not a gpu based one.

Do you have an Nvidia gpu in that machine? If so this is a KNOWN problem with some machines and Windows! I just fixed my sons desktop by swapping out the Nvidia gpu and putting an AMD one and no more problems! Do an internet search and there are tons of ideas to fix the problem, but it is a Windows timing thing and Nvidia is aware or it and has been trying to fix it for a LONG time!

Oh and Rosetta does NOT use the gpu while you are crunching its units, it is a cpu based project, not a gpu based one.

Yes i've got a Nvidia GPU. But on a notebook, no swap possible. Nothing helped other than keeping the GPU doing something.
And yes, i am not on Rosetta any more, I need GPU tasks.

Do you have an Nvidia gpu in that machine? If so this is a KNOWN problem with some machines and Windows! I just fixed my sons desktop by swapping out the Nvidia gpu and putting an AMD one and no more problems! Do an internet search and there are tons of ideas to fix the problem, but it is a Windows timing thing and Nvidia is aware or it and has been trying to fix it for a LONG time!

Oh and Rosetta does NOT use the gpu while you are crunching its units, it is a cpu based project, not a gpu based one.

Yes i've got a Nvidia GPU. But on a notebook, no swap possible. Nothing helped other than keeping the GPU doing something.
And yes, i am not on Rosetta any more, I need GPU tasks.

SOME people have gotten relief by using the Windows drivers instead of the Nvidia ones, but of course you cannot gpu units crunch with them.