Collatz no work available

CaptainUnlikely · 21 Oct 2012 at 14:14

Anyone else having issues with Collatz recently?
I haven't had any new work since the 19th, though all work has uploaded correctly and I've been credited for it. I'll run out of units later today unless it starts working. I've rebooted my PC and tried manually updating - beyond that, I've not really had to troubleshoot BOINC so I don't know what's next.

PhilthyPhil · 21 Oct 2012 at 16:53

Just checked and its working normally for me. Maybe try resetting the project or remove it then add it again?

CaptainUnlikely · 21 Oct 2012 at 17:04

PhilthyPhil said:
Just checked and its working normally for me. Maybe try resetting the project or remove it then add it again?

I'll give that a go shortly, thanks. At least now I know it's not an issue with the project, has to be on my end.

CaptainUnlikely · 21 Oct 2012 at 18:00

OK, well, I tried resetting it, no dice, so I removed and re-added it. Now I don't get a BOINC notice saying no work available, but it still doesn't download any work. Rosetta still picks up work fine though. Hmm...I was planning on reinstalling Windows anyway, so I think I'll do that tonight and see what happens.

CaptainUnlikely · 22 Oct 2012 at 09:47

One complete reinstall later, and still Collatz is telling me no work is available. Rosetta is working although oddly it's saying "Communication deferred: 23:11 something" which I've never seen before - normally it's communication deferred by around 3 minutes, not a full day.
I've double checked my preferences on Collatz and made sure that ATI is checked, Nvidia and CPU are unchecked. I also tried allowing all types of work, saving preferences, then going back to how it should be, just in case it would help - but it didn't.
Any other ideas?

Edit: Just had a quick glance at the Collatz forum and quite a few others are reporting the same issue. Guess it's not on my end after all, which is a relief in one way, but it does mean I'm stuck with nothing to do until it gets fixed.

PhilthyPhil · 24 Oct 2012 at 18:03

I am using the optimized app which I got from here http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/power_apps.php I don't know if that makes any difference. It does say on that page that it is the same app that BOINC downloads automatically, but it runs faster for me. Before it did not use all the GPU but with that app it runs at 100% GPU usage. It could be some different settings in the app_info rather than the app itself though.

CaptainUnlikely · 24 Oct 2012 at 20:15

All of a sudden it started working for me yesterday while I was at work - I left in the morning and it was still doing nothing, came home and it was crunching away. It's carried on til now and has a full queue of work, so everything seems to be sorted now. I didn't want to post yesterday in case I jinxed it heh.
I may well try the optimised app and see if it makes any difference for me, my GPU does run at 100% but if it might help, it's worth a try, I can always go back to the standard app if something goes wrong. Thanks for the link.

Edit: tried the 3.11 Collatz app and all that happened was it started using my CPU, how odd. Gone back to 2.09 now and it's working how it was before.