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Simon:
That may be possible, though the app does run at higher priority during the benchmarks and should make the game stutter, actually. This has been noted by a few people with the new 2.2B release.

We're thinking about ways to improve this, but right now, the only solution I see really is to not game and run BOINC at the same time - you could make a batch file that looks like this to start TMN (text file, save as whatever.cmd or whatever.bat):

@echo off
net stop boinc
c:\TMN\TMN.exe
net start boinc

Of course, you'll have to change the path to Trackmania, but that should be straightforward.

Regards,
Simon.

Josef W. Segur:

--- Quote from: Black Hole Sun on 25 Mar 2007, 07:30:04 pm ---...
The main problem is of course the time taken and the "freeze" of computation, in particular because I run boinc as a service (so I loose the time already spent on the wus if I stop the service).
...
--- End quote ---
The S@H application normally checkpoints once a minute, you should lose only the time since the last checkpoint if you stop the service.
                                                                        Joe

Black Hole Sun:

--- Quote from: Simon on 26 Mar 2007, 07:15:00 am ---That may be possible, though the app does run at higher priority during the benchmarks and should make the game stutter, actually. This has been noted by a few people with the new 2.2B release.

We're thinking about ways to improve this, but right now, the only solution I see really is to not game and run BOINC at the same time - you could make a batch file that looks like this to start TMN (text file, save as whatever.cmd or whatever.bat):

@echo off
net stop boinc
c:\TMN\TMN.exe
net start boinc

Of course, you'll have to change the path to Trackmania, but that should be straightforward.

Regards,
Simon.

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OK, thanks for this batch.

By the way, running TMN while boinc is on NEVER slows down the game. I can notice when the bench occurs on every software, but not while I'm doing TMN. Is there a TMN version planned ? (joking ;))


--- Quote from: Josef W. Segur on 26 Mar 2007, 11:32:32 am ---
--- Quote from: Black Hole Sun on 25 Mar 2007, 07:30:04 pm ---...
The main problem is of course the time taken and the "freeze" of computation, in particular because I run boinc as a service (so I loose the time already spent on the wus if I stop the service).
...
--- End quote ---
The S@H application normally checkpoints once a minute, you should lose only the time since the last checkpoint if you stop the service.
                                                                        Joe

--- End quote ---

You are right, except I chose to write to disk every 50.000 seconds in order to "save" my drives. In particluar an usb stick on which I run Boinc

Anyway, thanks guys for your great work.
I'll use Simon's batch and will losse whatever is already computed, but it's only a matter of 1 or 2 hours. Better than having wus lasting 18 hours or so :D

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