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Subject: Re: Fritz 8 only 4-5kN/s when analysing on P4 2.2Ghz with 1Gb RDRAM!!! WHY?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 14:52:18 12/17/02

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On December 17, 2002 at 17:11:16, Stuart Smith wrote:

>Strange problem with Fritz 8 - on initial installation I can get 800-1000kN/s
>during analysis. If I then close Fritz and reopen it and then analyse the same
>game I now get 1,2,3,4,5 kN/s and the CPU is showing 0-5% utilisation but the
>memory in use climbs rapidly and sometimes there is a lot of disk thrashing.
>
>If I reinstall it I can repeat the above quite easily.
>
>I notice that the inital load screen says something like 'loading Fritz 8 -
>409Mb' on the initial (first) load but  second and subsequent times it shows
>'loading Fritz 8 - 819Mb'.
>
>This is driving me insane - I am running on XP with P4 2.2GHz and 1Gb PC800
>RDRAM on a Dell Dimension 8250.
>
>Incidentally, I get 100% CPU usage on CM9000 which is a fantastic product.
>
>To show you how bad things are - I have beaten Fritz 8 twice in 6 games!!!!
>
>Thanks
>
>Stuart Smith

What version of Direct X do you have?

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