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When it’s in the background it uses no cycles, but the messages sent to it by the OS pile up. However, with this option turned on, CM9k uses all possible cycles on one CPU core when it’s running in the foreground. Without this option selected, CM9k uses up processing whether or not it is running in the foreground. As it turns out, this makes things worse, rather than better. There is an option to tell CM9k to use fewer cycles when it runs in the background. This is incredibly irritating and makes some of the dialog boxes completely unusable.ĬM9k insists on chewing up CPU cycles even when it’s not doing anything. The most annoying manifestations of this problem are the occasional invisible buttons. Some of the interface is just plain broken. The menus don’t follow any of the conventions common to most OS X software so finding the menu items you want can be a bit of a chore. In fact, it’s so screwy that I’m not sure how to describe it except to say that it is entirely out of place on OS X. First of all, its user interface is a bit of a horror show. Chessmaster has plenty of flaws, some of which are pretty nasty. So, although many of the programs that I will review have versions that run on other operating systems, I will only speak to those that run on OS X, and I won’t say much about the Linux and Windows versions. I should state up-front that, at the moment, the only operating system I use is OS X. With any luck, this is the first in a series of chess software reviews.
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