Author: William Penn
Date: 16:58:35 02/08/05
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On February 08, 2005 at 17:53:53, Barry Culp wrote: >On February 07, 2005 at 22:29:23, William Penn wrote: > 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 Thanks a lot! That will save me many mouse clicks over the next year... :) I suppose it's partly because I have shared-RAM-graphics, rather than a separate video card. With the chess engine running, graphics are drawn on my video screen slow enough to watch, rather than their normal instantaneous appearance. Also certain operations (scripts?) seem to take forever, maybe several minutes, or maybe don't work at all (some kind of internal abort timer, I guess). For example, the Dump File operation in the Engine window's context menu wouldn't work the first few times I tried it, but started working after I lowered the process priority for the engine. Funny stuff. WP
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