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Subject: Re: Fritz 8 starts VERY SLOWLY

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 15:07:45 12/23/02

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On December 23, 2002 at 17:30:17, Marc S. Levine wrote:

>Just installed Fritz 8 and find it takes forever to start...65 seconds to get to
>the playing board.  I have it set for hash tables of 192MB and did not even
>install the 3D board.  After closing program down, it also seems to slow down my
>whole system for a few minutes.
>I ran Fritz 7 on this same machine (Pent. 4, 1.7GHz, 1GB RAM, WinXP Pro) and it
>was fine, starting up in 5-10 seconds.
>Has anyone else encountered this problem?  Any suggestions?
>thanks,
>Marc

If you have 1GB RAM, you are using the wrong size of Hash; 256 MB or 512 MB is
recommended.

 Chess engines prefer to use RAM in doubling increments rather than using
in-between values. There's a technical reason for this, but only smart guys
named Franz, Bob, Mark, Mathias (with a varying number of t's), etc., truly
understand it, so let's not go there. But if you prefer to follow their advice,
there are certain RAM settings that work best for hash tables in chess engines:

1 MB
2 MB
4 MB
8 MB
16 MB
32 MB
64 MB
128 MB
256 MB
512 MB

http://www.chessbase.com/support/support.asp?pid=199



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