Author: Michael P. Nance Sr.
Date: 12:08:24 11/08/01
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On November 08, 2001 at 10:12:41, B FINKLER wrote: > When playing games back to back the Fritz GUI freezes after 5 or 6 games. >I play mostly 3-0 blitz games and use T14 or GT2. Is this a common problem >or am I doing something to cause this. Seems to happen near the end of the game >, I cannot force a move or unload the engine. It does happen on two separate >computers so I dont think it is hardware related. Any ideas? Thanks > >Hardware: Athlon 1200 320meg >Program: T14 or GT2 96 meg hash fixed time set to 1 second per move Hello,I've had My Tiger freeze up a few times than I care to remember.It has happen with alot of different time setting.This mostley happens when I'm playing another Tiger or a Program of equal strenght.It has happen at the mid or end Game also,I don't remember it happening at the onset.I also am using an athlon 1.2 gig processor with 512 mb of ram on one of My P/C'S,The other is 1 gig and 256 mb of ram.This freeze up has happen on both.I also use a 2 p/c set to play on the internet.The primary(or fastest)p/c is the one with the Chess Program and the other I use to be on line with only.Reguardless of which p/c was doing the thinking It had freeze ups.I've had this happen with other Programs shutingdown also.I've recentley switched Operating Systen to Windows 2000 Professional and this seems to help cut down on the amount of shutdowns/freeze up over Windows 98 or Windows ME.I've also have sevral posts here conserning this same Topic.A reply to My post here said that "overclocking" might be the cause.I'm not sure I know what overclocking is.Another Thing that has helped Me is that I stop playing and turn off the P/cs and alow them to cool down and rest after sevral "tuff" Games.It seems to cut down on the amount of crashes also.Hope You can get something useful from this.>>>>Mike
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