Author: William Penn
Date: 08:07:33 03/09/04
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On March 09, 2004 at 02:49:20, Ingo Bauer wrote: >Hello > >>The Classic GUI works generally OK >>unless I'm multitasking other software, which is often the case. It is very >>reluctant to lend any processor time to other applications, which usually run >>superslow, and sometimes causes exceptions or errors. So I usually can't use the >>Classic GUI. > >In the CB-GUI the CPU time for a native Chessbase Engine seems to be handled by >the gui. >What is the Classic-GUI doing in your Taskmanager? On my comp the GUI is using >somewhere close to 0% when running an engine. It is the engine that is using 99% >or 100% CPU. >Have you tried to reduce the process priority for an engine. You should have the >same problems if you run a engine in Winboard for example. > >How is the behavior of the CB-GUI (regarding taskswitching)if you run a UCI >engine there? >Btw: If you run Shredder as an UCI engine in the CB-GUI is that somehow changing >the behavior of the GUI regarding memory faults while changing hash size? If not >it is for sure the GUI because you are using the same engine in the classic >without any problems. > >Bye Ingo Thanks for your interest, but I have no idea how to answer all of your questions. I am not interested in doing a lot of testing to solve or isolate problems. Either it works, or it doesn't work. I am productivity oriented, not technical oriented. My primary interest is in the results of chess analysis. But at the same time, I must be able to use my computer to run other software and tasks at the same time as the chess software is working in the background. When I'm using the Classic GUI, it is OK unless I am multitasking other software - such as Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, a text editor such as EditPad Lite, etc. Then that other software runs very very slow, and sometimes it appears to freeze, and some errors result. So usually I can't use the Classic GUI for that reason. It doesn't matter why - I just can't use it - unless perhaps I want to leave it running overnight without any other software going at the same time. That slowdown problem does not happen with the CB GUI. Other software runs at near normal speed when using it at the same time. I don't know why, but imagine that its code is more friendly with Windows XP. The code in the Classic GUI was perhaps written before the latest Windows XP updates were released. WP
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