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Subject: Re: Fritz32 and NT4 SP4 Screen Saver

Author: Shep

Date: 07:47:53 07/28/99

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On July 28, 1999 at 09:54:52, Mick Beasley wrote:

>[On behalf of my father]
>
>We have observed that Fritz 32 tends to crash (lock up) whenever the screen
>saver (a standard Microsoft one) kicks in.  The machine is a PIII/450 with 128
>Mb of RAM, and the hash table is set to use about 91 Mb.
>
>Is this a known problem, and what is the likely cause?

I think the point is that screen savers are pretty pointless anyway.
(Unless you're on a terminal you wish to automatically protect with a password
whenever you're leaving your desk.)

When you're using a chess program for analysis, you won't want the screen saver
to kick in and steal CPU time, right? Especially the Fritz 5.32 GUI is very
sensitive towards other programs running, so it would slow down analysis to a
crawl.

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Shep




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