OK OK you've really enlightened me I guess I just
didn't take into account the scope of the problem
(playing chess that is), but I thought 2 minutes for
my move to show up seemed unreasonable.
John
AKA LakeWalllum
--- Len Gerstel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
Thanks in advance.
John
AKA Lakewalllum
Beige 266 Mhz G3 DT
66 MHZ system bus overclocked to 83
OWC 500Mhz G4 upgrade overclocked 545 Mhz
512 ram
USB/FW card
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