Author: Matthew Friend
Date: 17:39:50 11/16/00
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On November 16, 2000 at 17:40:45, Tim Mirabile wrote: > >I also have had no problems, running on a Dell Inspiron 7000, Pentium 333 MHz, >Windows 2000. One of the first things I did after installing was to cannibalize >a database, merge the result with my mainbase of about 1.8 million games, and >then run a doubles kill and physical deletions on it. The whole process took >several days, and there were long periods where ctrl-alt-del would show >ChessBase 8 as not responding, and it would be very difficult to do other things >on that machine while it was running, but by leaving it alone, it was able to >complete all of the operations without crashing. > >I think this is something that still needs to be improved with ChessBase, that >long database operations be more "multitasking friendly". I also wouldn't mind >seeing the tree format expanded to allow text annotations, and possibly >something like the "accumulations" feature of Bookup. I would prefer to work on Hi Tim: I noticed also that when using Chessbase 8 it often ate up so much of my systems resources I could hardly do anything else (also windows 2000 pro). I found a very good work around (though I am not a computer expert so do this at your own risk : ) 1.Hit cont/alt/delete (which in windows 2000 will bring up taskmanger). 2. click on task manager 3. click on "processes" when cb8 is running 4. right click with your mouse on the cb8 process. 5. set the "priority" to "below normal" I did this and it did not appear to affect the actual performance of cb8 in any way...yet enabled me to actually check e-mail and use my computer for other things. Matthew P.S. I don't know if operating systems other than windows 2000 pro allow users to do this....
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