Posts by old_user77016

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Graphics Using 50% CPU (Message 13291) Posted 9 Jun 2005 by old_user77016 Post: > This also seems to happen when running the model as a screensaver, even when > the monitor is set to power off when not in use. I ran it as a screensaver > overnight for 10 hours with monitor maually switched off and only got about 5 > hours of CPU time used! > My experience also, which is ridiculous, not how I want my resources used,especially since the operating sytem turns my monitor off after 15 minutes when I don't turn it off myself. However, I found a cure, and that is just set the screensaver to [None] (right click on the desktop and go to the Screen Svare tab). This turns off BOINC, but restarting it does not reinstall the screen saver. So now the model gets all my idle time.