Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 09:47:02 01/19/03
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On January 19, 2003 at 01:11:47, Bill Gletsos wrote: >On January 18, 2003 at 13:57:40, Roy Brunjes wrote: > >>I am running Fritz 8.0.0.8 on Windows XP with 1 GB RAM in my machine. I have >>turned off "System Restore" (though I would rather have not). I have heard (and >>seen) that with that enabled, Fritz 8 is completely unusable (slow doesn't begin >>to describe it). >> >>When I start Fritz 8 and opt to play a game vs Fritz (vs going to the >>Playchess.com server), Fritz starts up rather slowly. It frequently takes >>almost one minute before I see the chess board on the screen. Previous >>Chessbase products I own come up in just a few seconds. >> >>I configured the hashtables to be 128 MB. I played a game (and lost - wow, what >>a shock, right?). I then exited Fritz 8. I then restarted Fritz 8. When it >>starts again, it now seems to grab all available memory for hashtables -- 819 MB >>is now used in my case. This is very annoying as it slows down the rest of the >>programs I have running on the computer. Is there any way to stop this >>behavior? Fritz 6 did not do this, nor did Junior 7 or Tiger 14 or Hiarcs 8. >>This seems to be a GUI "feature" that I would rather do without that only >>affects Windows XP systems -- my Windows 2000 PC does not exhibit this behavior. >> >>Thanks for any tips you may know of! >> > >>Roy > > >Its a known problem that has nothting to do with System Restore. Its due to a >bug in the Fritz8 GUI. It seems to effect machines with at least 1GB of memory. > >As was mentioned awhile in a previous thread here there is a unreleased fix for >it on the Chessbase playchess server at the following URL >http://www.playchess.com/updates/GUI8.iup > >Just place this file in your Fritz8 folder >C:\Program Files\ChessBase\ChessProgram8 > >then run the program IUpgrade in the Fritz8 folder > >Bill Thanks a lot Bill! Works like a charm!!! Roy
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