KWSN Orbiting Fortress

Pooh Bear 27 · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:41 pm Post subject:

Have you tried snoozing BOINC and playing (snooze only lasts an hour or until you remove the snooze)? Does the game play OK then? If so, then suspend the work while playing then resume when done playing.

LanDroid · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:32 pm Post subject:

More 'stones:
Gemjunkie[TeaM] passes 900,000
Housekeeper of Camelot passed 600,000
The Knighty NI passed 70,000
Sir Brian - err sorry - wrong film! passes 4,000

PhastPhred · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:30 am Post subject:

Oh Grizz?? Cool

(I better be careful! Something about letting Sleeping Bears be...) Shocked

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The Knighty NI · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:38 pm Post subject:

Must admit I had not thought of that one. However, until about 2-3 months ago this has not been a problem. Now its happening with all games I play and some applications I use. Not good. Bad JAVA.

It all started after the V.6.1.3 Java which was issued around September this year and not getting the normal update prompt. Used to get the update prompt regularly which suddenly stopped. Since then I have found 2 JAVA compromises on my machine. Just wondering if this is related?

Previously I could play games and BOINC would continue in the background with only a small drop in production.

After the issues started with JAVA I uninstalled it and there were no issues. Reinstalled it and the issues started up again. So I really need to get to the bottom of what is causing the conflict so I can either build a work around or find another way of enabling the programs which are affected.

I will try the Snooze option and give feedback. Very Happy

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Pooh Bear 27 · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:44 pm Post subject:

What about a complete format and reinstall of the whole system? If you had compromises, they may still be partially in place and causing your issues. Some of them are rooted so deep it's almost impossible to clean without a clean start.

On XP I did it often, as I knew the holes were rotten.

LanDroid · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:20 am Post subject:

"It all started after the V.6.1.3 Java... "

Not sure what that is. Have you tried the latest Java SE Runtime Environment version 7u2?

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre-7u2-download-1377135.html

Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

Lunch time stones

The Knights Who Say Ni! passes 17,000,000
KWSN-Gemjunkie[TeaM] passes 950,000
The Knighty NI passes 90,000
KWSN - Housekeeper of Camelot passes 650,000
[KWSN] Colleen passes 6,000
KWSN - Sir Brian - err sorry - wrong film! passes 8,000
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The Knighty NI · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:06 pm Post subject:

Yayy

10 of us in the top 20 now WTG Caniggits Very Happy

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Plomos · Prince Joined: 26 Apr 2011 Posts: 859

According to Free DC I only see our first 5 team members in the top 20 for the project. Here is what I see

JohnGalt 007
Team rank - 1
Project rank - 3

DoW
Team rank - 2
Project rank - 6

ohimike
Team rank - 3
Project rank - 8

Pooh Bear 27
Team rank - 4
Project rank - 13

Al Dente
Team rank - 5
Project rank - 18

Gemjunkie
Team rank - 6
Project rank - 33

So where are the other 5 people in the top 20 from our team Shocked

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The Knighty NI · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:37 pm Post subject:

Sorry I should have said in terms of daily production.

However, have 6 in the list you gave out #ni-1

This is what I was looking at:

Rank Name Recent average credit Total credit Country Participant since
1 [KWSN]John Galt 007 64,531 4,491,844 United States 30 Dec 2010 15:16:26 UTC
2 DoW 30,366 2,712,030 United Kingdom 11 Jan 2011 16:05:25 UTC
3 KWSN - Housekeeper of Camelot 21,023 663,410 Germany 14 Nov 2011 9:28:54 UTC
4 KWSN-Gemjunkie[TeaM] 16,251 964,109 United States 31 Dec 2010 23:15:42 UTC
5 Pooh Bear 27 10,407 1,275,749 United States 2 Mar 2011 12:13:15 UTC
6 sciagacz 8,430 1,306,043 Poland 25 Aug 2010 15:36:31 UTC
7 N.Schlitter 7,490 28,547,700 Germany 14 May 2008 18:01:40 UTC
8 [SG-FC]Chillkroete 6,836 1,367,144 Germany 1 Mar 2010 16:25:33 UTC
9 Kotfryc1 6,570 1,365,840 Poland 16 Oct 2010 8:22:04 UTC
10 Idan Shifres 6,501 656,845 Israel 2 Jan 2011 8:27:27 UTC
11 Sir Stooper 5,225 856,776 United States 31 Dec 2010 22:01:53 UTC
12 Chipotle 5,000 106,096 United States 24 Nov 2011 1:10:39 UTC
13 mildew 4,362 950,188 Sweden 30 Dec 2010 18:35:21 UTC
14 vaughan 4,261 418,712 Australia 28 Feb 2010 11:01:09 UTC
15 The Knighty NI 3,912 91,966 International 5 Mar 2011 17:03:22 UTC
16 ccandido 3,540 52,960 Portugal 22 Jun 2011 20:57:59 UTC
17 [AF>WildWildWest] RLDF 3,238 776,289 Japan 15 Sep 2010 7:21:03 UTC
18 Yankton 3,139 314,637 United States 5 Jan 2011 22:33:31 UTC
19 Mr_Oizo 2,891 89,211 Netherlands 2 Mar 2011 8:31:10 UTC
20 phlipsidesteve 2,758 734,287 Australia 7 May 2011 2:52:34 UTC
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LanDroid · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:28 am Post subject:

The Buffer Zone is over 2 million! 183K average shrubbed over last 7 days and 240K crunched yesterday!

Milestones:
The Knights Who Say Ni! passed 17,000,000
John Galt 007 passed 4,500,000
Gemjunkie[TeaM] passed 950,000
mildew passed 950,000
Housekeeper of Camelot passed 650,000
The Knighty NI passed 90,000
[KWSN] PhastPhred passes 20,000
KWSN - Sir Brian - err sorry - wrong film! passes 10,000
Sir Brian - err sorry - wrong film! passed 9,000
Colleen passed 6,000

LanDroid · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:47 pm Post subject:

Mid-Month stats:
1st Place +1
17,715,511 Points +5,672,232.
183,259 RAC +156,323.
4,527,757 shrubbed last 28 days +4,072,248.
221,237 crunched yesterday +164,159.
1st Place Formula Boinc

Buffer Zone: 2.6 million.

'Stones:
Gemjunkie[TeaM] passed 1,000,000
KWSN - Housekeeper of Camelot passed 700,000
The Knighty NI 100,000
PhastPhred 20,000
Sir Brian - err sorry - wrong film! 10,000
Colleen 7,000

LanDroid · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:23 pm Post subject:

'Stones:
The Knights Who Say Ni! passes 18,000,000
Housekeeper of Camelot passes 750,000
Yankton passed 350,000
PhastPhred passed 25,000
Nuadormrac passed 20,000
Colleen passes 8,000

LanDroid · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:05 pm Post subject:

Buffer Zone: 3 million +

'Stones:
DoW passes 3,000,000
Pooh Bear 27 passes 1,300,000
Sir Brian - err sorry - wrong film! passes 20,000
Plomos passes 4,000
Michelle passes 1,000

Nuadormrac · Prince Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 506

As to your computer while playing games, the age of the computer, and it's performance play a part. Back 6 years ago or so, I never suspended BOINC, unloaded AV software las, or the like, never needed to. However my last magor upgrade was in 2005 (stupid economy), and the machine which was top of the line then, had slowly become obsolete over the years. And as games came to use more resources, the performance came to hit. At first there was turning graphics down, or things that could be done in settings; but eventually the box was showing it's age.

Then in 2010 my desktop died, and I'm now on a laptop which though it has a duel core (more box then was a unicore Athlon 64), due to Intel graphics (vs the Radeon 9600 I had bought in Dec 04), the frame rates actually went DOWN. And this in spite of having 2 GB instead of 1 GB of memory, and a bit of a beefier CPU in the lappy....

All in all, if I have BOINC loaded, and load something like WoW (which isn't the most resource intensive game out there), I'm sitting at around 90+ % CPU utilization, and with the slower hard drive in this laptop, performance is killed.

Your options are pretty much what mine have been, unload BOINC, and depending on how good your machine is you might still be wanting better performance (I practically need it to do much of the level of raiding I was doing previously); else get a new machine. But that also means money, which is easier said then done in todays markets; for many....
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Nuadormrac · Prince Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 506

So, when going to refresh the queue on this here lappy; I got the following:

The Knighty NI · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Gonna take this one on board by Pooh

The Knighty NI · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:43 pm Post subject:

Buffer Zone

Almost 3.3 Million. Very Happy

Stones Today

Idan Shifres passed 700,000
KWSN - Housekeeper of Camelot passed 800,000
KWSN - Sir Brian - err sorry - wrong film! passed 25,000
Michelle passed 3,000
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The Knighty NI · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:28 pm Post subject:

We almost own the top 20 Puters Slot on this Project Very Happy

Here is why Razz

Computer info Rank Owner
1 Anonymous 11,193.34 356,040
2 [KWSN]John Galt 007 10,742.14 461,893
3 [KWSN]John Galt 007 10,350.87 294,633
4 Anonymous 10,049.00 167,809
5 [KWSN]John Galt 007 8,858.34 700,197
6 [KWSN]John Galt 007 8,252.00 674,558
7 [KWSN]John Galt 007 8,145.19 615,928
8 Anonymous 7,983.13 410,951
9 Anonymous 6,725.09 130,477
10 Kotfryc1 6,679.42 241,096
11 KWSN - Housekeeper of Camelot 6,475.17 206,002
12 The Knighty NI 6,380.73 138,125
13 Anonymous 6,277.19 192,629
14 Anonymous 6,125.45 135,348
15 severance17 5,019.15 52,591
16 Yankton 4,962.94 171,490
17 Idan Shifres 4,695.90 413,385
18 [KWSN]John Galt 007 4,551.95 333,098
19 [KWSN]John Galt 007 4,251.86 338,839
20 Pooh Bear 27 4,245.83 251,684

There are 12 of our Puters in the top 12 Puters on the Project Razz

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