Author: Michael P. Nance Sr.
Date: 12:20:01 09/12/03
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On September 11, 2003 at 20:04:22, William Penn wrote: >On September 11, 2003 at 13:24:26, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote: > >>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 > >That sounds about right My 1GB value was just a quick guess. > >All is now OK after obtaining their March 2003 update for the Fritz8/Shredder7 >GUI. You need to: >(1) Open an account at the Playchess.com server. >(2) Login to your account. You MUST be logged in, then... >(3) Enter the product code from the front page of your manual. >(4) If approved, they'll then offer the update for immediate download. >I forget, but maybe you have to click the Query Update in their Help menu at >some point. In any case, that's the general idea. Good luck. It's a shame that >they don't let people know there's an update available. >WP Ok Thanks.>>>>Mike
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