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TThrottle For Windows => Questions => Topic started by: chris32000 on August 19, 2011, 09:05:34 AM

Title: TThrottle as a service
Post by: chris32000 on August 19, 2011, 09:05:34 AM
Hi,

am I right, if there is no user logged in,  TThrottle has no chance of controlling BOINC? I got so many BOINC-clients running as a service and controlling their temp would be very desirable for me. What could I do?

Cheers,
Chris
Title: Re: TThrottle as a service
Post by: fred on August 19, 2011, 10:34:11 AM
Quote from: chris32000 on August 19, 2011, 09:05:34 AM
am I right, if there is no user logged in,  TThrottle has no chance of controlling BOINC? I got so many BOINC-clients running as a service and controlling their temp would be very desirable for me. What could I do?
I tried that, but no luck. Windows restricts any driver access, so services can't access a driver and can't read or control the temperature.
What I could do is move everything over to the driver, but driver programming is a lot more complicated. Very difficult to debug and any mistake is fatal and results in a BSOD.
BOINC itself still works as service but very limited. The default Windows installer installs it as user, because GPU access is impossible as a service.