Fritz GUI ... is there a way around this ???!!!

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Fritz GUI ... is there a way around this ???!!!

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I have the Fritz 14 GUI and this is driving me nuts. I remember it happening some time back but I thought this was fixed. I start an engine to look at one of my online games, I have Infinite Analysis on and then I try a new line ... and the engine just stalls for about 30 seconds. Hmmm ... I figured must be the engine hogging all resources ... so I make the engine use 5 cores instead of 6 cores (I have 6 core Intel CPU) ... and the same thing happens.

I can't imagine that there is no way around this. How many cores do I need to dedicate for the GUI so this doesn't happen?
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How much ram is the engine using and how much do you have on your system?
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I have 64GB RAM on system ... should be plenty. The engine works fine it is just when I try an alternate line the engine will stall for about 20 or 30 seconds and it is extremely annoying!
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M ANSARI wrote:I have the Fritz 14 GUI and this is driving me nuts. I remember it happening some time back but I thought this was fixed. I start an engine to look at one of my online games, I have Infinite Analysis on and then I try a new line ... and the engine just stalls for about 30 seconds. Hmmm ... I figured must be the engine hogging all resources ... so I make the engine use 5 cores instead of 6 cores (I have 6 core Intel CPU) ... and the same thing happens.

I can't imagine that there is no way around this. How many cores do I need to dedicate for the GUI so this doesn't happen?
How about changing the priority on the process. ring up the task manager, highlight the fritz exe/chessbase exe and select a higher priority for the program. It should NOT be doing this in general though

Have u checked the temp of the CPU. u probably hva edesktop but that might not be an issue but i have a few times where the tower was on the floor (carpet) and then I cleaned the CPU and it ran much better
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reflectionofpower wrote:
M ANSARI wrote:I have the Fritz 14 GUI and this is driving me nuts. I remember it happening some time back but I thought this was fixed. I start an engine to look at one of my online games, I have Infinite Analysis on and then I try a new line ... and the engine just stalls for about 30 seconds. Hmmm ... I figured must be the engine hogging all resources ... so I make the engine use 5 cores instead of 6 cores (I have 6 core Intel CPU) ... and the same thing happens.

I can't imagine that there is no way around this. How many cores do I need to dedicate for the GUI so this doesn't happen?
How about changing the priority on the process. ring up the task manager, highlight the fritz exe/chessbase exe and select a higher priority for the program. It should NOT be doing this in general though

Have u checked the temp of the CPU. u probably hva edesktop but that might not be an issue but i have a few times where the tower was on the floor (carpet) and then I cleaned the CPU and it ran much better
Do changing priority of Fritz GUI interfere with engine performance?

I'm also experiencing this issue and it's very annoying for sure.
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Nordlandia wrote:
reflectionofpower wrote:
M ANSARI wrote:I have the Fritz 14 GUI and this is driving me nuts. I remember it happening some time back but I thought this was fixed. I start an engine to look at one of my online games, I have Infinite Analysis on and then I try a new line ... and the engine just stalls for about 30 seconds. Hmmm ... I figured must be the engine hogging all resources ... so I make the engine use 5 cores instead of 6 cores (I have 6 core Intel CPU) ... and the same thing happens.

I can't imagine that there is no way around this. How many cores do I need to dedicate for the GUI so this doesn't happen?
How about changing the priority on the process. ring up the task manager, highlight the fritz exe/chessbase exe and select a higher priority for the program. It should NOT be doing this in general though

Have u checked the temp of the CPU. u probably hva edesktop but that might not be an issue but i have a few times where the tower was on the floor (carpet) and then I cleaned the CPU and it ran much better
Do changing priority of Fritz GUI interfere with engine performance?

I don't know, I have my brother's laptop, he's a nut for new progs, try it

I'm also experiencing this issue and it's very annoying for sure.
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I am absolutely sure it is not a hardware issue as I have many ways of testing when hardware is not performing well. I used to get around it before when I would setup a remote engine on another computer and so am pretty sure it has something to do with software. If I change priorities, does that make the engine weaker?
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By the way ... recently upgraded to Windows 10 and the problems mysteriously disappeared. The GUI seems to work fine now and engines won't stall.
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Ah, and I was about to write that 'it sounds like a Windows issue'.