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Subject: Re: Fritz 5.32 - the RAM hog?

Author: Ralph E. Carter

Date: 21:58:47 12/21/98

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On December 22, 1998 at 00:42:53, Charles Milton Ling wrote:

>I am now able to use Fritz 5.32 the way ChessBase planned it (?).  No music for
>me (ever) - well, I can live without it.  If I am extremely lucky and/or clever
>(no way of telling which, it changes every time), I can use the 3D board (again,
>I admit that I do not need it like the air that I breathe) with very low preset
>hash tables.
>The point I would like to make is that I never, ever, have any problems of this
>kind with Fritz 5.16.  I can (within reason) more or less do what I please.
>Hardware: Pentium II MMX 266 MHz with 64 MB RAM, Matrox Millenium II AGP
>graphics card (was considered pretty good a year ago when I bought it).
>I truly wonder whether ChessBase is presupposing that anybody seriously into
>computer chess must have 128 MB (at least) of RAM by now?

Hmmm...
Are you USING the AGP?
Have you tried NOT using it?

I am not using AGP.
I have a setting in my bios called "AGP window", which determines how much of
the memory is accessible by the video card.
If you have such a setting, have you tried setting it to a small value?



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