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Subject: Re: Fritz 5.32 - the RAM hog?

Author: Charles Milton Ling

Date: 23:27:48 12/21/98

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On December 22, 1998 at 00:58:47, Ralph E. Carter wrote:

>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?

I have not adjusted my graphics settings (Komputer Korner pointed me in that
direction on rgcc).  While no longer totally computer-illiterate, I have
apprehensions about doing such things.  This applies all the more to the BIOS: I
am fairly sure that I do not have an AGP window there; I am certain that I would
not dare to change it.  (Let me add that I need my computer to make a living;
whenever it isn't working - happens often enough anyway - my life gets more
complicated.)
But thank you very much for your comments and advice!  The main point I was
trying to make was that Fritz 5.16 and Fritz 5.32 seem to be horses of quite
different color.
Charley



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