For what it's worth... Here's an important update. Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Insider build today, Build 10532, and it appears to fix the "activity detection" problem I was having with my USB Logitech G27 Racing Wheel. My testing confirms that, for the purposes of detecting activity to disengage the Screen Saver or to turn the display back on, Windows correctly no-longer detects activity (phantom or real) from my wheel and pedals. This also fixes the BOINC problem, where the "In Use" settings would think that my system was always in use because of the phantom inputs.
I believe the fix will be sent, at some point, to regular Windows users, sometime on or before the "Threshold Wave 2" release scheduled for sometime in October 2015. Kind Regards, Jacob From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] CC: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [boinc_dev] Windows 10 breaks BOINC screen saver. Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:46:12 -0400 See if they have any non-keyboard non-mouse USB device attached, and if so, see if the screen saver starts working properly when they detach that device. You might also see if they are noticing strange behavior, when testing the "Suspend when computer is in use" setting with the "in the last 1 minute". I'll reiterate the problem that I'm seeing. Basically, when my Logitech G27 USB racing wheel is connected to the machine, Windows erroneously reads its inputs (which are slightly oscillating despite me not touching them) as activity. This causes BOINC to see "activity", keeping my work suspended even if I wait longer than a minute. And it also causes the ScreenSaver/Sleep/DisplayOff timeouts to either not go off at all, or to erroneously wake up. I have confirmed the issue with another user who has a USB joystick. It has been happening to me for months, and it only happens on Windows 10 while a user is logged in. Microsoft has not fixed it yet. And if you are hitting on a separate issue entirely, then I apologize. But I do think it is likely the same issue as mine, and if it is, they should be contacting Microsoft. Jacob > From: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 19:33:01 +0200 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [boinc_dev] Windows 10 breaks BOINC screen saver. > > Hi all, > > I know that Eric Korpela had a thread about this, but its name was that of > a private message. A bit difficult to search on, etc. > > We get more and more people on the BOINC forums who complain that since > they updated to Windows 10 from Windows 7, 8 or 8.1, that the BOINC screen > saver doesn't work anymore. > > Full thread > https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=10422 > > E.g. > " Ever since the day i started it in Windows 10, i noticed that i get no > preview, or screensaver. I don't really care too much since i did notice > that my points per day tripled with the Windows 10 update, but i do leave > my monitors on once every so often, and the protection would be nice. I'm > running 2 GeForce 760's in SLI with drivers from NVIDIA GeForce experience > constantly updating them. Also running 5 SIIG USB 3.0 dual monitor adapters > to handle the 6 monitors i have. i don't get screensavers on any of the > screens." > > and > "Hi there, guess what? Since upgrading to Windows 10 BOINC screen saver > will not run too. Ran fine on 8.1. It appears it's trying to start once > every second, however when I look under 'tasks' in BOINC Mgr it show all is > running fine. Sounds like lots of people are having the issue. Any ideas? > Thank you ..." > > Now, in some cases it can possibly be that Windows Update installs a driver > version that doesn't contain OpenGL, but I'm not sure it's true in all of > these cases. > > I'll ask people to install GPU Caps Viewer to see if they have OpenGL > installed. Anything else? > > Ta, > > -- Jord van der Elst. > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
