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Subject: Re: Fritz32 and NT4 SP4 Screen Saver

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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