Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 08:56:20 02/02/04
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On February 02, 2004 at 09:41:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Also: Were you both evaluating the same position(s) when you measured Kn/s? Bob D. > > >> >>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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