Author: William Penn
Date: 07:20:14 11/20/03
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On November 19, 2003 at 17:43:51, Marc S. Levine wrote: >I bought Fritz 8 a while ago and returned it because it took forever to load, >even on a fast machine. One of the reviews on the ChessbaseUSA site says the >same thing. Does anyone know if this problem has been addressed in an update or >patch? >thanks. I've had Shredder 7 for about found months, and it uses the same GUI as Fritz 8. I also thought it was very slow to load when I first got it. That was on a W98se/500MHz Celeron machine. The loading slowdown related to initializing the tablebases. But even though slow to load, it didn't take "forever" as you experienced, so it was usable with W98se. Then I got new different computer with Windows XP Home and a 2GHz Athlon XP processor a couple of months ago, and was surprised to find that Shredder 7 was still very slow to load! Also it didn't work right, many bugs, especially with big RAM (1GB or more). The latter was fixed by getting the March 2003 update. If you didn't get that update, then that was part of your problem. Please note that the Fritz8/Shredder7 update has NOT been made available for general download from the Chessbase website!? You MUST open an account with the Playchess.com server, login, then give your product ID# (found on the front page of the user manual). Only then many an update be offered. There's no other way to get it, of which I'm aware. The March 2003 update was the best one. They issued a new update in October 2003 but it re-introduces some bugs, so I prefer the March 2003 update. Also after optimizing my new XP computer's settings, Shredder 7 is reasonably fast to load now. Part of the slowdown was due to a fragmented hard drive. The defrag utility that comes with Windows XP Home just doesn't work very well. I've found another defragger that works much better, and helped the loading speed a lot. Also I learned how to disable a lot of the unwanted/unneeded "services" in Windows XP which helped the computer's performance in general. Remember: Windows XP is a bloated op system, slow by nature, slow even on a fast computer! It's definitely slower than my old W98se computer op-system-wise, and a pain in the neck in general. But of course it's much faster where it really counts -- for chess analysis with Shredder 7. WP
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