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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 9000-Gui

Author: John Merlino

Date: 07:39:59 01/10/03

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On January 10, 2003 at 01:20:18, SedatCambaz wrote:

>Hello,
>Ý have Chessmaster 9000 and there is one problem when i am running tournaments
>with winboard engines in CM9-Gui.The problem is that:
>-When i look at the Taskinfo2002 i see :
>Chessmaster.exe uses about 8% cpu.
>That's means for the engines is left 92%.For example i have  other Guis like
>Fritz,Winboard,Chesspartner ,they use about 0.50% cpu.And is it possible to
>arrange the Chessmaster.exe to use about  0.50 % cpu ?
>
>My tournament conditions under  CM9-Gui  are:
>Swiss,Winboard engines mostly use its own books,ponder off,no tablebases.
>
>That's hapens on my both computers and
>my Hardware:
>P4-1400MHz-256 MB RAM-Win98se-ASUS V7100MAGÝC v11.01a
>P4-17000MHz-512 MB RAM-Win98se-Vodooo3
>
>
>Thanks in advance
>Sedat's Computer Chess Site
>http://www.geocities.com/sedatchess/

The CM GUI generally uses about 5-8% of the CPU, depending on the state of the
GUI. To maximize the amount of CPU that the engines get:

-- Close all windows except for the Game Status window (or you could even close
that if you don't really need it). You may want to see what the engines are
thinking via the Thinking Lines window, but this window takes 1-2% of the CPU.
-- Do not use a True3D board/piece set. Using a 2D set is MUCH faster.
-- Shrink up the size of the main application window so that it only has room to
show the board. Depending on your screen resolution, this can save a few tenths
of a percentage of CPU usage, because the app doesn't have to redraw as much
with each update.

jm



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