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Subject: Re: Question to dual PC users using WinXP and Fritz7

Author: Gordon Rattray

Date: 06:25:30 08/19/02

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On August 19, 2002 at 09:07:33, Slater Wold wrote:

>On August 19, 2002 at 06:03:00, Gordon Rattray wrote:
>
>>I'm currently using a dual Athlon running Windows XP.  When I run Fritz7 (single
>>processor version), I notice that the performance meter shows both processors at
>>100%.  This 100% is definitely attributed to Fritz7 as I have nothing else
>>running (the performance meter listing confirms this).
>>
>>So, is the Fritz GUI (mines is dated 4th June 2002) using one of the CPUs flat
>>out, and the engine the other?  Do others see this?  I wouldn't expect the GUI
>>to do so, only the engine.
>>
>>I'm sure that this isn't right and that in the past only one CPU has been
>>getting used (50% CPU usage overall).  I can only guess that something has got
>>"broken" and I need to re-install?!  Any suggestions?
>>
>>Gordon
>
>Are you using Windows XP Home?
>
>If so, that's why.  XP Home won't use more than 1 CPU.


Sorry, I should of mentioned... it's XP Professional.

The reason I noticed it was that my dual PC started getting sluggish when
running Fritz7 with reasonably sized hash tables...  GUI locking up, etc.  It
didn't do that when I first started using Fritz7, for several months.

I just wanted to check on here in case someone had seen the same problem.  I
think I'm going to have to start the joys of re-installing, etc...  hopefully
it's just a corrupted app and not WinXP itself getting mucked up.

Gordon



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