Author: Ralph E. Carter
Date: 20:58:36 12/22/98
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On December 22, 1998 at 20:13:23, greg moller wrote: >On December 22, 1998 at 01:07:46, 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? >> >>Also... >>I have an S3 Virge video card. >>I had to go into control panel...system...performance...graphics and set >>hardware acceleration ALL THE WAY DOWN, to get all of my 32 bit CB stuff to work >>right. Did you try this? >> >>CB7 is so important, I DON'T CARE about video speed! > > >Interesting, but let me ask you, what actually happens if you lower the video >speed? Could other applications, such as web browsers, or sound capabilities, >etc. be affected if you decrease the acceleration ? Just wondering... > >Thanks, greg As far as I have observed, the only disadvantage of moving that slider down, is decreased video speed. In particular, "text scrolling" is many times slower. (It had been almost unuseably-lighning-fast.) All things considered, I have a pretty bug-free system. For example, my CB 32-bit sound works, Real Video works, etc. And I built it myself, I am pleased to say. I am not an expert on this. It is possible that with the right drivers, etc., I could get everything working at full speed. But I recently upgraded from a 486 to a PII-300, and I am very happy with its speed! And now that everything is working, I am happy to leave it alone and enjoy!
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