Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 09:12:33 09/07/02
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On September 07, 2002 at 12:05:19, John Merlino wrote: >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 > >This is not a bug, nor is it a problem. The default windows that are made >available when you first go to the Game Room include either or both of the >Mentor Lines and/or Visual Thinking windows. If either of these two windows is >visible, then a mentor engine instance will be launched. It is this engine that >is running when you first go to the Game Room. If you don't like it, close the >windows and the mentor engine will be shut down. > >(Exception: if the Visual Thinking window is visible, and the Mentor Lines >window is NOT visible, then a mentor engine instance will only be launched if >the "Mentor" button is selected. Otherwise, you will see the data from the White >or Black player, depending on which of these buttons is selected). > >All of this is covered in the manual and ReadMe. > >jm Thanks for the RTFM comments John. :-) I did read them. The problem I described happened without mentor lines open or Visual Thinking windows. Zero windows were open -- just the board, nothing else. I have since concluded it was some sort of bug that is hard to reproduce (I cannot make it happen today for unknown reasons -- but I am not complaining about that! If the problem appears very infrequently, it is just a minor annoyance. All in all a wonderful product. I would still like to see a ChessBase quality 2D board and pieces, but ... I have not owned a CM product since CM6000, so this was a big jump forward for me with CM. Roy
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