Author: Marc S. Levine
Date: 10:19:10 11/20/03
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thanks very much. I will look into getting it through the playchess server. Marc On November 20, 2003 at 10:20:14, William Penn wrote: >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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