Author: Derek Winter
Date: 17:14:17 02/20/03
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On February 20, 2003 at 15:51:29, Brian Katz wrote:
>Is anyone experiencing difficulties with the Fritz 8 interface.
>It seems to take forever to load. Also, when playing on the Playchess server, I
>noticed that the kN/s were only reading at 5 or 6 and less. Yes that is the
>number 5. During and engine tournament I noticed the same thing for one of the
>engines. In this case the one on the bottom in the engine window pane, whereas
>the other engine would be reading at approx 1200+ kN/s.
>
>When using the Deep Fritz 7 interface or Fritz 7 interface this is not a problem
>at all. The Fritz 8 engine runs just fine within these interfaces. So, what is
>it with the Fritz 8 interface?
>
>Should we just load Fritz 8 take the engine for the engine folder, and then
>uninstall the interface? There seems to be something seriously wrong with
>Fritz8.
>The upgrade given by some on this site, does not work. It always says it cannot
>find the ChessProgram8\Gui.exe etc. etc and so on.
>
>Any suggestions? Or is the Fritz 8 interface just a piece of junk colored by the
>photo realistic 3D Board? Which by the way is extremely nice but has trouble
>working it the settings are set high.
>
>This definitely is not a user friendly program.
>
>All suggestions welcome .
>
>Brian Katz
Brian,
I posted on this a couple of weeks ago. I have XP Pro with 1 gig. of RAM. Fritz
8 often hangs the system. It does better with Deep Postion Analysis overnight,
but even here, Fritz 8 crashes much more frequently than Fritz 8 does in WIN 98
SE, where there are very few problems.
But under WIN XP Pro using "Infinite Analysis" mode, Fritz 8 is very
crash-prone to the point where I have gone back to a WIN 98SE system for
Infinite Analysis.
Another big problem: using a hash table of greater than 640 MB causes a
tendency to hang the computer.
Fritz 8 programmers need to go back to the drawing board and fix conflicts
between the Fritz 8 interface and WIN XP. More and more people will eventually
run into these problems as WIN XP spreads.
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