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Subject: Re: Problems with Fritz 8

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 02:52:07 09/18/03

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On September 18, 2003 at 01:40:11, John Coffey wrote:

>I figured out how to run the program without the annoying little animation at
>the beginning.
>
>I can't seem to run more than one copy at the same time like I could with Fritz
>6.  Going to miss that for doing analysis and playing at the same time.
>
>Orignally I started with Fritz 4/5/6 and was getting about 450 KN's per second
>on a Pentium III 450 mhz.  I wanted more power, mostly for chess analysis, so I
>upgraded to a Pentium III 933 mhz.  The speed didn't exactly double but I was
>getting aroudn 750 KN/S.  Then I bought Fritz 8 and the KN/S dropped to 450
>again, but sometimes it was much less.  I thought that maybe this would be O.K.
>since the program was smarter than the previous versions, but this drop in KN/S
>prompted me to buy a 2.4 GHZ celeron with an XP O.S.  What is surprising is that
>the KN/S haven't gone up that much.  Right now it is reporting  510 KN/S and I
>have seen speeds from 300 to 1200 KN/S, but typically I might see 600 to 700
>KN/S.
>
>I wonder if there are bug fixes for fritz 8?
>
>John Coffey

     Maybe you have set the hashtable size too high. And where
     are the books? If not in the folder "C:/Eigene Dateien/ChessBase/Books"
     you can have problems under Win XP unless you have not deactivated
     the system recovery of the OS.
     Kurt



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