Author: Günther Simon
Date: 04:39:22 04/24/02
Go up one level in this thread
On April 24, 2002 at 07:33:15, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On April 24, 2002 at 06:48:45, Günther Simon wrote: > >>On April 24, 2002 at 06:25:57, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>This was a short match of 6 games, and I made a few configuration changes. I >>>disabled the resign option, but somehow YACE still resigned in some hopeless >>>position; I also set the engines priority to normal instead of low priority >>>under Options, and finally, I adjusted the hashtable size for SJeng 12.11. Final >>>score ended up even. >>Sorry to tell you, but again I see at first glance incredible low >>search depths of 4-5 plies...dont know what happens on your machine?! >> >>Günther > >Isn't Arena running engine with idle priority, maybe he has a screensaver that >take cpu, or it could the fast search utility from MS Office that was on by >default on earlier release. > >Only valid screensaver for chess is blank screen or even better just use the off >switch for the monitor (could be automated for some monitors). > >Odd Gunnar Hi Odd, I would never run a screensaver at all when testing and shut down all unnecessary background apps ;) especially when publishing some results. This is also a part of a setup... Another guess might be that the Ram has errors but than one should detect it with other apps also because of the horrible swapping. Regards, Günther
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.