Author: Mick Beasley
Date: 03:21:38 07/29/99
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Maximising CPU resource is a fair point. However I'd like to followup on the Fritz 5.32 GUI being sensitive to other applications running - do you have any further information on this, or an appropriate URL to consult? Mick On July 28, 1999 at 10:47:53, Shep wrote: >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. > >--- >Shep
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