Yes, I've thought of doing that. (running it simply in the background).
I was mainly asking to make sure that the data being generated wasn't corrupt. That's my primary concern. Secondly, it was annoying that it wasn't simply kicking into the full display, unless I made sure to show the display first after closing out all other programs running.
I hadn't thought of the fact that the display itself could take some computing power away from the program. This seems like a good enough reason to switch to no screensaver.
Thanks,
Don't know what to say about this without knowing your machine and what type of graphics card you have.
Most of my machines that have no problem showing the display; another one with an older graphics card is quite, sell we say, "flaky".
From what I've seen of the client's behavior so far, I doubt there's an issue with corruption. It actually seems to run quite well and in a well-behaved manner.
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