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Subject: Re: Crafty64 vs Shredder 9

Author: pavel

Date: 09:17:41 02/21/05

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On February 21, 2005 at 11:49:29, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On February 21, 2005 at 11:27:14, Jasmine Baer wrote:
>
>>Do I need a 64-bit OS to run Crafty64, or is a AMD 64 CPU enough?
>>
>>I'm lost about this stuff, so please forgive me.
>
>I believe, this particular version needs OS to be 64 bit for it to run.  I could
>send you a verision for 64 bit and one that runs on both 64 and 32 bit OS.
>Email me if interested (this offer is good for anybody - place the word crafty64
>in the subject heading).   If you run 64 bit, opening book will have to be
>recreated in 64 bit mode.  The 32 bit opening books will not work.
>
>Win XP 64 beta is available for free to download.  It expires after one year.
>It appears to be very a stable OS (no OS crashes at all), the main drawbacks are
>the lack of 56K modem  and SATA drivers.  IDE drives, CD-ROM/CD-RW,Cd=DVD
>Drives, FloppyVIDEO, Printer and LAN drivers for the most past are available.  I
>have a 128MB ATI Video Card that runs fine.  Most of the 32bit program run fine.
> Those that use 16 bit intstall programs do notinstall (Winboard/Classic Genius
>are two programs that do not install.  There is a 64 Winboard compillation
>available but it does not come with everything. Specificallly you willneed to
>copy timestamp or timeseal from the 32 bit version if you want thise ICS
>helpers.)
>
>Shredder (Fritz version), and Chessbase install work fine.  Shredder 8 does
>about 950K nps in threads=2 mode.  I suspect the vast majority of the 32 bit
>programs that use 32 bit intstallers will work fine.  I have't tried Chessmaster
>yet, that could could be a problem since that program always burped with certian
>video cards etc, even with similiar but different 32 bit flavors of Windows OS,
>who knows if it will like the 54 bit video drivers.  It is not high on my list
>to install anyway.
>
>Best,
>
>Michael

Imagine all the SETI crunching you can do with this babe. :)
You have an awesome system. I wish I had one. The price tag doesn't seem so bad
(1500$ right?), but it has to be custom built with that price tag; which I can't
do. :(

pavs



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