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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger RAM-Hashtable Question

Author: Derrick Daniels

Date: 20:53:53 10/06/01

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On October 06, 2001 at 23:13:43, Stephen Ham wrote:

>Dear Computer Experts,
>
>I just became the proud owner of Chess Tiger 14.0 and Gambit Tiger 2.0
>(purchased from our host, ICD) with ChessBase interfaces. Anyway, both of them
>show 384 MB of RAM available for hashtables, but they only accept a maximum of
>96 MB.
>
>I have an AMD 1.4 GHz computer with 512 MB of RAM with a Windows 98 OS. I've
>tried increasing the RAM while in the "Load Engine" box. But when I return to
>that box to see if it accepted the larger hashtable size, only 96 MB shows up.
>
>I'd like larger hashtables for overnight analysis. Since I purchased extra RAM
>capacity, I'd like to utilize it. Can any of you experts tell me what, if
>anything, I'm doing wrong? I called John at ICD and his Chess Tigers accept the
>larger hashtables without problems (he has Windows 2000). So either I'm doing
>something obviously wrong, or there's a bug in my program, or there's a
>difference between Windows 98 and 2000 that affects this.
>
>I've read Steve Lopez's T-notes and there's no mention of this problem. Please
>help.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Steve



  Good Question!!  I have had the same problem, haven't heard anyone discuss
this, so I am glad you asked.



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