New message on F@H display?

[Heliocentrical]

Message at the bottom of dispay says "Screensaver: no longer idle,ending"
Anyone seen this before?
My other boxen just say "working"

 

[Mattman]

Hmmm, that sounds like you're running the screensaver version, but the computer thinks it's doing something and is stopping your folding. Since I've never used the screensaver version, I can't help you too much, but I can suggest that you use the console version instead - it uses all of your extra cycles no matter what and when you set it up as a service, you can just let it go. All the cool people use the console version.

 

[ChelseaOilman]

My guess is Aratech is running the v5 GUI client and he has it checked in the options to use the screensaver. That message is nothing to be concerned about, it just means that the screensaver was deactivated. I believe if you use the computer long enough without letting the screensaver activate again that message will be replaced by a normal F@H message.

These lines are also printed out in your FAHlog.txt file. Just open FAHlog.txt and you can see how often the screensaver is being activated.

There's really not much point in switching to the console client because the core does all the work, not the client. The core used by the GUI and console client is the same. If you look in task manager you can see how much resources the GUI client (winFAH.exe) uses compared to the core.

ChelseaOilman