Author: Brian Katz
Date: 21:48:00 03/24/03
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On March 25, 2003 at 00:00:16, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >On March 24, 2003 at 19:25:00, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On March 24, 2003 at 18:59:10, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >> >>>I running engines matches with Fritz 8 and it sometimes shows 0 or 3KN/s. Is >>>that normal? Sometimes it shows 486 Kn/s and plays well and sometimes it shows 0 >>>and ended losing badly to the other engines. What can i do to correct this >>>problem? >> >> >>Are you running Fritz 8 with a screensaver on or another program running on the >>background? Also I noticed that if you are using Windows XP and you have a >>family member looged and then you log as well it will slow down Fritz 8. Try to >>log off every other users before you run Fritz 8 and make sure that you are NOT >>running any Screensaver or other programs that is eating up memory in the >>background. >> >>Pichard > > >Yeah i think it was the case because it logged off completely and the Kn/s >jumped eratically. I think i can't run many programs or applications at the same >time. Thank you both for your time in trying to help. I also encountered that problem. I am presently running a Compaq AMD Athlon 2600+ with 1 GIG of DDR SDRAM. For starters, the Fritz8 interface was taking forever to start up. As for the low kN/s, I was also having that problem when I set the hash tables up near the 800 mark. If I set the hash tables lower it was not a problem. If I after encountering this problem, lowered the hash table setting to for example 256 the problem would disappear. I could then raise the hash table setting to 818 if I wanted. I also noticed that problem when running an engine tournament. One of the engines would show very low kN/s such as 2 or 3 or 0 and the other would be up around 1200+. I have also encountered this problem while on the playchess server. To play on that site with my Fritz8 engine, I had to use the Fritz7 interface. After downloading one of the interface upgrades (not the engine upgrade)which were mentioned by some on this site some of these problems disappeared. The slow start up completely disappeared. Running engine tournaments were running smoothly. I was not happy with the recent upgrade (8.0023) as I also found that there was a problem with Ne4 moves where as this did not happen with 8.008. This made me wonder what else was wrong with that engine. Since I always keep copies of my engines, I removed the 8.0023 engine and replaced it with the 8.008 engine. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. Best Brian Katz
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