Author: Derek Winter
Date: 06:51:16 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 Peter: what is the purpose of this patch? Will it address the problems with the crashes in WIN XP or is it for something else?
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