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Subject: Re: got Cm 8000 - i am frustrated

Author: Andreas St.

Date: 09:17:21 01/05/01

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On January 05, 2001 at 11:58:58, Andreas St. wrote:

>Hi,
>
>just got my new Cm 8000. The first i saw. The gui is extremely slow. My Comp is
>Athlon 650 with 384 MB Ram. I use Win ME and my Comp/System etc. is installed
>good and runs fast. But the gui of CM 8000 ... :-(
>Then i saw, pondering is on. Certainly, it slows down the system, but much more
>than in Cm 6000 or 7000. Then i tried to turn off pondering. I made a new
>personality with turned off Pondering. No effect! If i rerun CM 8000, and use my
>new personality, CM ignores and pondering is on!
>Then, the time settings. I know there is a bug and a patch will come. But also
>if i use time/move , ex. 60 sec per move, CM plays out the moves within 1 or 2
>seconds. Is there any Time-setting, which runs???
>
>There are users here, who plays out CM 8000 against other progs. Which time
>settings they use. I dont see any, which runs well.
>
>At last, the sound! Only Spoken sounds is running. If i set to other sounds, i
>hear nothing!
>
>Sorry but this moment its not nice to use Chessmaster 8000
>
>Hope someone can help me.
>
>This moment

One more: my whole system runs much slower, if CM 8000 is loaded! My Fritz 6a,
which analyses a move, is much slowed down then. Also, if i set "PAUSE" from
Actions-Menu in CM 8000, Fritz 6a/system is much slowed down. In CM 6000/7000
there isnt this problem!



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