[dtal]

Recently I upgraded my PC to Win XP Pro and reinstalled Bridge Master 2000. After doing this the programe responds in a snail tempo and also there is no sound.
What shall I do to improve program's performance?

[pbleighton]

Don't know about Bridge Master, but XP is a memory hog. It may be that the RAM you have was sufficient to run the OS plus Bridge Master, but needs an upgrade now.

You should have at least 256M of RAM to run XP. If you have less, it will work, but will use the hard drive as substitute memory, which is very slow.

You will probably experience slowness on other memory-intensive programs, if you run any.

This is just a guess. There may be a technical problem on version or installation instead.

Peter

[dtal]

Thanks for the hint, but problem is probably somewhere else. My PC has 512MB RAM and sufficient HD space (more than 7GB).
May be the the processor, Intel Pentium III, 792 MHz, is weak.
:-

[JRG]

I would guess the problem is elsewhere. I run Fred's products under emulation (Virtual PC) on a Mac and the speed is fine. HOWEVER, the "fake" PC is running Windows 2000 Pro, not XP.

I would also have made the same guess as Peter. 1/2 gigabyte of RAM sounds good, however, you can never have too much!

Are you running a lot of other applications at the same time (Internet Explorer, a Music program that plays MP3s, Mail program, Microsoft Word, etc.)? Do you have a really fancy desktop picture?

If you tend to run a lot of applications at the same time and just leave them minimized, try this experiment. Shut down all other applications but Windows Explorer and then try BridgeMaster 2000. If it runs fine, then memory undoubtedly is the problem. In this case, you can experiment further by starting up your regular "suite", one application at a time until BM2000 turns into a snail. That will give you a rough idea of how much can be run at one time.

[the hog]

I suspect the fault is in Bridgemaster rather than XP. I have had no complaints ever since running Beta 1 well over 2 years ago.
Suggest you run Bridgemaster in compatability mode for Win98. (Right click on the exe file and you will see the compatability tab - it is reasonably seld explanatory)

[uday]

I think this is a known issue. I will forward this thread to FG. I also believe that there is a fix.

[fred]

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Recently I upgraded my PC to Win XP Pro and reinstalled Bridge Master 2000. After doing this the programe responds in a snail tempo and also there is no sound.
What shall I do to improve program's performance?

This is a consequence of your Bridge Master CD-ROM
being older than Windows XP is.

The latest version of Bridge Master 2000 runs without
any problems under XP. Send me an e-mail:

fred@bridgebase.com

and I will arrange for you to get a (free) upgrade.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[dtal]

8) Good news! Mr. FG is personaly taking care to solve the problem. Folks, thanks for your help and cooperation.