AQ on PC without modern video card
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How is it possible to run AQ v4 on PC without modern (NVidia) video card?
Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately, it won't work without a recent Nvidia graphics card.
The reason for this is that the neural network used to evaluate the board requires very large matrix operations. Without GPU optimization, it can only read about 5-10 evaluations per second.
No matter how good the latest AIs are, it takes at least 1,000 evaluations per moves to make an accurate decision. On a high performance GPU, this can take a second, but on a CPU it can take more than 3 minutes. This is so impractical that we don't offer a CPU only option.
On the other hand, we understand that most users do not own a high-performance graphics card. I would like to consider light-weight evaluation methods (like chess and shogi engine) that can be used in such cases in the future.
OK. We (most users) will wait future release.
Thanks for it in advance.