Author: Derek Winter
Date: 15:39:58 02/21/03
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On February 21, 2003 at 07:57:34, Charles Worthington wrote:
>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. :-))
>
>http://www.playchess.com/updates/GUI8.iup
>(but as usual, no documentation whatsoever on what have changed)
Definitely don't use this one. I followed the instructions in a post from Peter
Schreiner and Rory. I got this error message":
"Cannot write to FrameResdll. Please run IUpgrade.exe again from Program
Directory."
Now I can't even start Fritz 8. Serves me right for following instructions from
a net bulletin board. Forget about Betas. Wait till Chessbase gets it right.
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