Author: Dave Kuntzsch
Date: 18:10:09 10/30/03
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I have a similarly configured Dell having just migrated from a 80meg 166mhz IBM, and run continual Winboard tournaments. All you have to do to run other programs in the forground (or background) is to right click on the Taskbar, choose Task Manager, select Processes, find the chess engines that are running, right click on them, and Set Priority to Low. Using that setting everything will work just fine since the chess engines will just use excess CPU cycles to drive usage up to 100%. Most applications will not affect their performance unless you are running virus scans or other processor intensive tasks. BTW, some tournament managers have the ability to specify Low Priority as an option. Dave On October 30, 2003 at 15:56:38, Melissa Reese wrote: >Hello, > >This is my first post to this forum. I've looked through several pages of >messages here, but didn't see what I was looking for (perhaps I was just blind, >or my kind of questions are too simple for this forum? :-)). > >Anyway, here are my questions... > >I recently got a new computer, and I have a couple of chess programs I use for >learning/practicing (I'm not an advanced player, but I am enthusiastic!). The >programs I currently have are Hiarcs 9 and Chessmaster 9000. > >I usually have several programs running at the same time, and without a chess >program running, everything is very very fast. However, if I start playing a >game with CM 9000, all my other programs slow down - not horribly, but certainly >noticeably (when my email program checks for mail, or opening other programs, >etc.). I'm not especially "geeky" when it comes to understanding computer >hardware issues (RAM, Processor power, etc.) with regards to having what I need >to run these seemingly power-hungry chess programs, and still run other programs >concurrently and with decent speed (or is that even possible?). > >Here's a little of what I know about my computer (a few of the possibly relevant >items listed): > >ASUS P4S533-MX W/Audio/Video/Lan >Intel Celeron 2.4 GHZ >Enlight 72500A W/300 WATT ATX >Seagate 80 GB/7200 RPM ATA-100 >Kingston 512 MB DDR2100 RAM >Windows XP Home >Creative Soundblaster 5.1 >Etc... > >Looking at that, can anyone suggest anything like a certain amount of additional >RAM, etc. that could help my computer run more efficiently when I have my chess >programs running? Or should I simply expect other programs to be affected in >this way when running a chess program? > >Thanks for any ideas you may have for me! > >Melissa
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