Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 08:35:04 02/21/03
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On February 20, 2003 at 20:14:17, Derek Winter wrote: I'm using this exact combination on my PC! I have had close to Zero problems with this combination. But there are so many combinations of Video card, memory type, processor and motherboard possible that such things looks like they are more or less bound to happen with someone. You better hope there will bee a upgrade that solves the problem. And there will be an upgrade as I had some discusions with the ChessBase man Mathias (I do not remember his last name) about improvements on the online program. He confirmed that a upgrade was planned, but if it help your situatuion, I do not know. Best regards Torstein >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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