Author: William Penn
Date: 16:56:44 11/06/05
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On November 06, 2005 at 19:44:27, Ray Banks wrote: >I had a lot of problems with the trial version on my P4 machine, running under >the chessbase GUI... Every other engine was fine. Yet, on my 3 AMD boxes there >were no problems at all. I never got to the bottom of it. No pattern but always >a loss on time every so often. Once I saw it - during a game, CPU usage dropped >to zero, Fruit had disappeared from memory, and the loss on time ensued. >FruitWCCC'05 runs perfectly on that box as does every other engine - but Fruit >2.2.1 trial version has problems. I tried everything, uninstalled all the >chessbase products, ran a registry cleaner, re-installed, but the problem >remained. I just gave up and stopped using it on that box. Clearly a bug of some >sort. Perhaps it doesn't like Intel.... >That box is now back running CM10th matches, and as expected 30 games so far of >200 without any problems. As normal - the box runs perfectly until you let Fruit >2.2.1 trial version loose on it I have an AMD Athlon XP 2400+ @2GHz and 1G RAM. I tend to suspect it's the trial version engine's fault, not the kind of processor or the particular GUI, but I don't know. The trial version has a problem with the Arena GUI, although somebody discovered & posted a work-around fix. It works OK for me probably 99% of the time, so it's good enough for testing. I just wonder if the bug will disappear if I buy Fruit 2.2.1 and enter their secret code?! Actually I'm not too worried about it but thought it should be reported. WP
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