Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:27:29 11/05/03
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On November 05, 2003 at 13:03:23, Melissa Reese wrote: >Hi, > >In my earlier thread: "How much RAM, etc.?", I asked about the "jerky/slow" >movement of pieces in my Hiarcs 9 3D chessboard, amongst other things. > >This morning, my computer guy came over and installed a new graphics card with >64 MB of video RAM. The card is an "ASUS GeForce2 MX-400". > >Anyway...everything seems quite fast (opening/closing programs, etc.), and while >still a bit "jerky", my Hiarcs piece movement is certainly faster and smoother >than it was. Not as fast and smooth as CM 9000's has always been, but >noticeably better than it was. > >And again my thanks to Dave Kuntzsch for telling me about the "low" priority >setting for the chess programs...that quite completely solved the issue with >other programs slowing down a bit. > >PS: This sure is a busy forum! :-) > >Melissa Just to let you know that a GeForce 2 is still a pretty old card (although you can certainly buy them cheaply these days). For another $50 or so you might have considered one of the low-end GeForce 4 cards, which would give you much more longevity, depending on how many 3D programs you commonly use. I noticed incredible performance increases on all of my games when I upgraded from a particularly old GeForce 256 to a GeForce 3 (that was almost one year ago, and the card only cost me $80 used). As for using the low priority setting, you should understand that this might noticeably decrease the quality of play of your chess program, especially if you are a strong player and you are playing blitz games. I have known programs set at this priority to get less than 50% of the CPU, depending on how well they are engineered to "work and play well" with the Windows OS. jm
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