Author: William Penn
Date: 05:00:43 09/07/02
Go up one level in this thread
On September 07, 2002 at 03:06:34, Roy Brunjes wrote: >An annoying thing about CM9000 is that when you go to the Game Room (for >example), immediately the CPU is used 100% even though a game has not yet >started. Try it -- click New Game and see that even before your (White's) first >move, the CPU is 100% used. > >This is poor design in my opinion ... it means that I must exit CM 9000 each >time I want to temporarily go do something else otherwise my system is S-L-O-W >due to CM9000 eating all the CPU cycles... > >Roy That has been a problem with recent versions of CM. I doubt if their algorithm design is sufficiently zen-like to fix it, i.e. it's probably more like a patchwork quilt at this point. Either that, or they don't care. I don't know which. If I recall correctly in CM8000 in the game room there was a way to turn off most of the processor usage by clicking on "enter game info", or some such. Also perhaps look at your list of running tasks (CAD) to make sure you only have one instance (or none) of the CM engine running. That's one of the reasons I don't have CM installed anymore, because I am almost always multitasking and can't allow such a processor-greedy application without good purpose. I haven't checked it in awhile, but believe Chessbase software such as Fritz is reasonably quiescent re processor usage unless it is calculating (such as in Infinite Analysis mode). In any case I only use Chessbase software now. WP
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.