Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:41:48 02/02/04
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On February 02, 2004 at 06:05:03, Sirotovich wrote: >Dear Chess Friends ! > >I would appreciate your advice in regard of my questions. > >1) I have a very long discussion with my overseas friend. We both have pretty >good computers, which have very similar hardware. Our computers run Windows XP, >they both have 512 RAM, 80Mb HHD, etc. The only difference is my PC has Pentium- >4 2.8GMhz and it has 128Mb graphic card, meanwhile my friend’s PC is a bit >slower and it has 2.4 MHz and 64Mb graphic card. But ! His Fritz 8 runs faster >on his computer, why ?! Does it has anything to do with the graphic card, or >maybe another application on my PC makes Fritz slower ? My Fritz shows around >900-1100 Kn/s, when my friend’s Fritz has up to 1500 Kn/s. How can it happened >, if I have a faster machine ? what kind of memory? RDRAM can make a chess engine run a bit slower. There are too many variables to answer without specific hardware configuration details for both machines... > >2) And another very annoying problem. 2 days ago I bought a laptop with a new >ADM64 bit processor. Mainly I use it for my job, but also I installed some >chess program on it. First, I installed ChessBase 8 in Programs Files and then I >installed Fritz 8. I run Fritz 8 without any problems but then I decided to >change the engine to another one. And the system showed a huge memory leak. It >took around 10 minutes to unload Fritz and reload Junior. After that Junior >showed just 0-3 Kn/s and I desperately couldn’t find any solution. I decided to >go to ChessBase server and upgrade CB8 to its latest version , which is one year >old. But I couldn’t do it because the program stated that my CB8 is up-to-date >!? I registered to ChessBase server and tried to update Fritz-8, but I also >received the same message that the program was fine. How can, if I made a fresh >install and Frits is 1 year old and Ch8 is probably 2 year old ?! > >Can anyone point to my mistake and how to avoid memory leak ? > >Thank you very much, > >Regards, >Anatoli Sirota
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