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Subject: Re: Problem with Rebel Century on AMD K7-600?

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 06:50:08 02/12/00

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On February 12, 2000 at 09:37:43, Francois Bertin wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I've just bought an AMD K7-600 on which I was eager to install Win 98, and then
>Rebel to see the nps count rise to the sky! Well, surprise... After putting the
>program to work  analyzing some positions in my games, I can see that the nps
>count barely goes over 55,000 on average. On my old computer (a P-100 with
>MS-DOS) I was getting an average nps of about 30,000. With the K7, I was
>expecting a number more like 150,000.

You should get some 200K in the middlegame. On my PIII-500, Century does some
140K.

>I'm also unable to run Rebel from the DOS prompt. I get a memory page fault and
>a message saying that there's not enough memory to run the program (I have 128
>mb installed)...

It will run well if himem.sys is not loaded.

Enrique

>If there are people here using Rebel on a K7, I would like to know what kind of
>performance (nps) they get, and if the poor showing I'm seeing on my machine is
>related somehow to a configuration or bios issue.
>
>Thanks,
>Francois Bertin



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