Author: Francois Bertin
Date: 09:24:11 02/13/00
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On February 12, 2000 at 09:50:08, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >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. The performance issue is bios related. The current bios (not the latest one) on my motherboard comes configurated with a default fail-safe setup that offers low performance. I have reconfigured using the "Load optimal setup" option, and now Rebel fully hits the 200,000 mark and over. >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. I suppose that booting up using F8, or perhaps a specially configured shortcut in Windows could solve this problem. FB
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