Have an old Quad Pentium Pro 200 MHz server up and running.

Has the following:
- Win2K Server - service pack 4
- 2 GB ram
- have NOT installed Direct X 9.x

Boinc is installed as a service.

Can not view the graphics - when I click on "show graphics", screen changes so that you CAN NOT select "show graphics". Is this because it is a service, missing Direct X 9.x??????

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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service installs do not offer graphics support as far as i know, i can not answer if and if yes what directX version is needed for graphics though.

You CAN view graphics when BOINC is installed as a service.

Ignoring any security considerations (only applicable if you've setup BOINC to run in a "sandbox" account anyway), you can have BOINC service log-on as "Local system account" and then check the "Allow service to interact with desktop".

i.e. Right-click MyComputer -> Manage -> Services -> right-click on BOINC service -> Properties -> goto "LogOn" tab -> ... do the changes described above.

Works for me.

PS: This is applicable to ALL BOINC science apps, not just Rosetta.

PS2: I think the procedure is also described in BOINC-Wiki.

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