Author: Michael P. Nance Sr.
Date: 10:24:26 09/11/03
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On September 10, 2003 at 22:31:44, William Penn wrote: >Running Windows XP Home, AMD Athlon XP 2400+ at 2.0GHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB hard >drive, and the Shredder 7 GUI. > >All was fine when I only had 640MB RAM. Now I've plugged in 1GB RAM memory and >the Shredder 7 engine won't load. It says "Engine: not enough memory", and >aborts the load. Other engines load fine such as Shredder 7.04 UCI or Fritz >5.32. > >The amount of hash selected has no effect on this problem with the Shredder 7 >engine, nor does disabling the tablebases. However after some experimenting, I >discovered that it relates to the windows pagefile size. If the pagefile is less >than about 1GB, then the Shredder 7 engine will load. Otherwise it aborts. > >If I turn off virtual memory (no pagefile), the Shredder 7 engine loads and runs >fine. It even accepts the indicated maximum hash size of 784MB. But I don't want >to run my computer without a pagefile... > >I could possibly solve this problem by limiting the size of the windows >pagefile, but unfortunately I can't. For unknown reasons, that custom windows >setting won't work on my XP Home computer. The pagefile always soon reverts to >about 1493MB, ignoring whatever I have specified for maximum/minimum sizes. I've >tried logging in as administrator in safe mode, and otherwise, so that's >presumably not the cause. > >Except for the inability to set a maximum/minimum pagefile size, my computer is >working OK. Diagnostics check out OK on my RAM memory and other system hardware >components. I believe the problem is pretty clearly with the Shredder 7 engine. > >Anybody else have this problem? Any ideas? >WP I have the same problem but I can load up to 819 mb of ram.>>>>Mike
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