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Subject: Re: Fritz 6 vs Rebel Century (2 games)

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 12:58:48 12/29/99

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On December 29, 1999 at 11:55:36, James T. Walker wrote:

>On December 29, 1999 at 00:21:55, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On December 28, 1999 at 19:07:01, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>On December 28, 1999 at 16:52:42, Luis E. Alvarado wrote:
>>>
>>>Hello Luis,
>>>That is a problem for me using Rebel Century.  When running Century on my
>>>PII-333 it constantly grinds the H.D. so I don't like to do it.
><snip>
>>
>>Did you try reducing the hash size?
>>
>
>Hello Harald,
>Yes, I have 160 Meg Ram and run Rebel with 28 Meg.  It seemst to be a problem of
>not caching the Hard Drive.  I don't know why since this is the only program I
>have with this problem and it works fine on the K6-3 with essentially the same
>setup.


So it is probably a hardware problem; I assume you also tried the VCACHE entry
in the win.ini? (Or was it system.ini?)


>
>>
>>>It has no
>>>problem on the K6-3-450 so I run Rebel Century there most of the time.  My test
>>>indicate a difference of about 30-40 points on average between the two machines.
>>> Some programs seem to gain more from the K6-3 than others.  I believe Rebel is
>>>one of those programs.  This has to be taken into account when comparing engines
>>>of course.
>>>Jim Walker



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