On Wednesday, August 31, 2005, at 10:33 AM, John Alonso wrote:
I'm new to the list but I thought I heard something
about speeing things up a bit.
Playing the included Chess game was unbareable.
Two things are critical for what you are trying to
do, Ram and video card. How much ram do you have? 256 is absolute
minimum, 512 is preferable. Do you have an add on video card or
running on the onboard video and if so, how much vram do you have? A
Radeon
7000 or 9200 will speed things up.
No video card, 6 Megs of video ram on mother board and
512mb of Ram
#2 suggestion Fast video card, Radeon 9200 or 7000
What is too slow for you in chess?
Is it how long the computer takes to make a move? If so you have 2
options:
1) Set the computer to an easier level so it takes less time to compute
the next move. The levels in preferences are set by how long you want
your computer to think about each move. Set it to easy and your beige
will take about 5 seconds to calculate each move, set it to hardest and
you are telling your beige to take 600 minutes to make 1 move.
2) Get a newer Mac or a faster zif (sorry, but beiges can only compute
so fast and computing chess moves is very processor intensive). Think
about Deep Blue, IBMs computer that beat Gary Kasporov. It was the
first computer to beat a grandmaster and was a contemporary to our
beiges and, iirc, cost over $10,000,000.
If it is how long it takes to display the animation of the move once it
starts, a better video card will help.
I am guessing it is how long it takes the computer to calculate the
next move that is bothering you, so you will probably need to set it to
an easier level. I only have access to my beige at work, but I am
guessing that the preferences are the same no matter which Mac you are
on. That you determine how long you want the computer to process each
move and it will crunch away as much as possible for that time frame.
So if you have a beige G3 running at 233, it will compute far less
moves than a Dual G5 2.7GHz, and therefore be an easier opponent on the
beige with the same level setting.
HTH,
Len
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