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Subject: Re: Who gets the CPU, Word or CM6000?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 09:04:41 04/29/99

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On April 29, 1999 at 03:01:39, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On April 28, 1999 at 19:15:01, Roger D Davis wrote:
>
>>Greetings all,
>>
>>I remember someone on rgcc saying that Chessmaster hogs the CPU. Well, so does
>>Word 97. I do a lot of writing, and I want to play an occasional game versus
>>CM6000 and then have it analyze the same game in the background.
>
>I looked at Word97's usage, and it was quite low (Peak was about 20%, but
>quickly went back down to almost 0).  I don't think CM will have any problem
>getting most of the CPU.
>
>>Two questions:
>>
>>1) If Word97 and CM6000 are running at the same time, with Word in the
>>foreground, how much CPU does CM6000 get? Any way to control this?
>
>Not with Win9x (I think).  With WinNT, you can set the CPU usage (Priority) of
>any program (Low, normal, high, and Realtime).
>
>Jeremiah

If you open Wintop, you can see the priority of any Win95 (I don't know about
Win98) program.

James



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