Author: Barry Culp
Date: 14:53:53 02/08/05
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On February 07, 2005 at 22:29:23, William Penn wrote: >On February 07, 2005 at 17:12:19, Bernardo Wesler wrote: > >>Thx Stefan! > >I'm still putting it through the paces and will reserve judgement for a week or >two. I've been using the CB GUI for a long time and it will take awhile to get >used to something different. > >The thing I miss most in the Classic GUI is the database capabilities of the CB >GUI. For example there's no way to search databases for a position in the >Classic GUI. So I'll be using both GUIs, probably simultaneously. It looks like >it works OK to set the CB GUI to a small hash size (4MB), turn off tablebase >access, etc. and just use it's database functions, while simultaneously using >the Classic GUI for analysis. > >The feature of the Classic GUI that stands out for me is the ability to limit an >analysis to a particular set of chosen moves, or to a set which excludes certain >moves. That's really gonna be a big help for serious analysis. So for example >you know for sure there are only 3 candidate moves worth considering, you can >set it to analyze that way. I haven't explored the online TB access yet but >that's potentially a valuable thing too. There's no other way I could possibly >obtain or access 6-man TBs with my dialup modem. > >I'm finding a few quirks. Most serious is that my computer gets very sluggish, >more than it should, when the Classic GUI is running. It's significantly more >sluggish than with the CB GUI. Fortunately there's an easy fix - manually lower >the engine's process priority to "BelowNormal" via Windows Task Manager. There >doesn't seem to be any way to do this with a startup shortcut containing special >command switches, like I was able to do with Shredder 8 in the CB GUI. >WP This technique works for me ... Create a batch file in the shredder classic folder called shred.bat with this text : start /belownormal Shredder.exe Then create a shortcut that points to the batch file. The GUI and any engines will have "belownormal" priority. This should make other windows tasks a bit more responsive. Barry
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