Author: Charles Worthington
Date: 04:57:34 02/21/03
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On February 21, 2003 at 07:37:34, Rory Nolan wrote: >On February 20, 2003 at 21:16:40, Brian Katz wrote: > >>On February 20, 2003 at 20:14:17, Derek Winter wrote: >> >>>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. >> >>Derek, >> >>Thank you for the information. It is comforting to know that it is not something >>with my system or something that I am doing wrong. >> >>The Fritz 8 engine seems to do well in the Deep Fritz 7 and Fritz 7 interfaces. >>If that is the case, what am I really missing by not using the Fritz 8 >>interface? Other than the photo realistic 3D board, (which is magnificent in my >>opinion by the way)I don't see any reason worry too much about it right now. >> >>It is an inconvenience however. There always seems to be a major problem with >>the Fritz interfaces!!! >> >>I am also using 1 gig of DDR SDRAM with an AMD Athlon 2600+ XP. >> >>Thanks again >>Brian > >You have probably already done this btu just in case:) > >'Under the url bei www.playchess.com/updates/GUI8.iup. is a patch available. > >Installation: > >1.) Download the file "gui8.iup" and copy it into the program folder. >2.) Start the file "iugrade.exe" and confirm with ok. > >Now the program should work. > >Sorry for the trouble. > >Kind regards >-Peter Schreiner' > >Rory The Chessbase sysops have informed me that many of the issues are addressed in the patch above. Also Chessbase is expected to release a GUI update in the very near future. The Fritz8 GUI does have some other nice features not found in the Deep Fritz 7 version. Notably in the Advanced Options of the Engine area. You can now set your program to play only a specific opponent and you can also limit the number of consecutive games that someone plays you. This could be useful if you were away from the computer and your opponent found a weakness in your book and was draining your elo. :-))
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