Author: Tina Long
Date: 21:40:19 10/30/03
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On October 30, 2003 at 21:10:09, Dave Kuntzsch wrote: >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. Good onya Dave, This, IMO is the correct answer. The problem is not the speed/capacity of the system, but the amount of the system that the chessprograms are demanding. You could upgrade your system tobuggery and Hiarcs would still want to use it all and leave other programs floundering. (This is assuming you've selected Hash tables of around 128m or less. If your chess program + windows wants the full 512m then everything will slow dramatically down as the harddisk is used to store hash.) While you are in Processes, look see what's actually running on your computer compared to what you think should be running. You may have worms or "Real events" or the like hogging bits of the system. The jerky 3d piece movements may just be the "animation" setting within the program, (Right-click on the board to find options) as a 32meg graphics card should be plenty for moving a chess piece (I used to race against 23 F1 cars with a 32meg graphics card). Cheers all, Tina
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