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Subject: Re: Unable to use max RAM on Fritz 8?

Author: Alex

Date: 16:45:05 05/10/03

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On May 10, 2003 at 13:39:50, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On May 10, 2003 at 13:09:32, Alex  wrote:
>
>>On May 10, 2003 at 12:59:45, Alex  wrote:
>>
>>>When I initialze Fritz 8 (after closing all unescessary programs) on my 512 MB
>>>WIN ME intel system it starts with 287 MB of RAM and indicates that the max is
>>>308 MB.  So I enter 308 MB of RAM  and Fritz APPARANTLY acknowledges the
>>>change.... However I wonder if it indeed does add the extra RAM.  COMMENTS
>>>anyone? (another interesting point is that of course with win 98 and ME windows
>>>will not let you run more than 512 MB of accessible ram even if u have a
>>>GIGABYTE of RAM!  I solved that on my win 98 computer but how about ME?
>>>Frustrating......... really!  Alex.
>>Actually that is ......Fritz 8 says I can enter 380 MB of RAM not 308 --sorry--
>>HOWEVER the reason I am suspect of Fritz  NOT utilizing the extra RAM from 287
>>MB to 380 MB is because the NPS- Nodes per second -- SLOWS down after the extra
>>RAM has been added!  HMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm    Curiouser and curiouser!  Alex
>
>If it's not using it, why would there be any change?
>-Tom
  Indeed perhaps the answer has been presented in the above notes...It is to be
noted that the MAIN reason for LARGE hash is for LONG TERM analysis --a few
hours for deep positional analysis for OPENING SPECIALIZATION.......  thanks
again.  Win ME is STILL a PAIN!!!!!!!!   Alex



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