Regrettably, yes, it means you don't get to see the pretty pictures. The ability of the GUI client to generate those images was the source of the video problem that you had.
On the upside, though, you WILL be able to make an active and positive contribution to a valuable area of research, you'll still rack up points for yourself and for the FR team, and you'll now be able to do it AND use other applications on your computer simultaneously.
Congrat's on getting the console launched. Yeah, it's boring, but it gets the job done.
What about when my drive sounds like a blender? Is that normal?