Author: Derek Winter
Date: 13:20:30 12/24/02
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On December 23, 2002 at 20:47:01, Bill Gletsos wrote: >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 > > >My System has 1GB RAM running Win XP Pro. > > >Fritz 8 appears to ignore the hash size set between successive running of the >Fritz 8 program. > >1. Launch Fritz 8. It takes a long time to load. > >2. Once loaded Fritz will tell you the hash is very large in my case over 800 >MB. > >3. Set Hash to 256MB. The prgram seems to run fine. > >4. Quit fritz 8. > >5. Relaunch Fritz 8. Again it takes ages to load and the hash is back to over >800 MB. > >This is repeatable. > >Seems to be a bug. > >This problem seems similar to the message >http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?271267 > >Its interesting to note all these machines have 1GB Ram. > >Bill I have exactly the same system as Bill with exactly the same results. Hash always loads at 809 MB no matter what I set it as.
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