Author: Ralph Patriquin
Date: 19:19:13 04/07/03
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On April 07, 2003 at 10:50:16, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On April 06, 2003 at 20:44:16, Ralph Patriquin wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I've uninstalled, reloaded, and applied all patches to Chessmaster 9000 up to >>the new 1.0.2 version. I was most interested in the new Engine Priority option. >>However no matter how I set it, Task Manager shows all instances of Engines (as >>well as the GUI) running at Normal priority. So I don't understand what this >>feature is supposed to be doing. In fact before this I had been running The King >>engine using InBetween through the Chessmaster GUI so that I could have the GUI >>running at Normal priority and all engine instances running at Low priority, >>which greatly improved responsiveness. I had expected something similar with the >>new feature. Does anyone know what it's supposed to do? I'm running under >>Windows XP Home. Thanks. >> >>Ralph > >You only sees the priority class in task manager. The GUI lower the thread >priority so you need another app. to see this (ex. Process viewer in MS C++). I >think also InBetween report this if you take away the priority swith in the ini >file. > >Inbetween lower the process class with the priority switch. Thread priority are >passed too the engine automatic as InBetween sees them. >This class switch is for engine that isn't possible to lower with thread >priority, search thread isn't the main thread or/and started for each search. > >Internal Windows have 31 level of priority mixed up by process-classes or thread >and if they are boosted (foreground). > >Chessmaster lower the thread priority in the Mentor engine in the same way as >Fritz and Chess Assistant and probably more do it. > >Odd Gunnar Thanks for the info! Ralph
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