Client.exe is not needed to play. It is used if you want to support the project with the computing power of your computer.
AMD FX 8350 is a pretty modern processor, but it is much better to use the GPU for the LC0. I have a NVidia GT 1030 graphics card. It's a cheap card, but it's still 10x faster than a CPU (Intel i5 mobile or AMD Ryzen 3). For example, the difference is that on the CPU the depth of analysis is 3-4 and now 8-10.
Currently a good choice for the LC0 is the RTX card (much better than GTX). Thanks to it you can increase your speed by another 10x-20x.
If you think about OpenCL (AMD card), my observations show that the speed will be 50% of that of CUDA (NVidia). I checked both versions of LC0 on my GPU.
I downloaded:
lc0-v0.21.0-windows-cuda.zip
My path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\ChessBase\Engines\LC0_CUDA
in the directory:
cublas64_100.dll
cudart64_100.dll
cudnn64_7.dll
lc0.exe
weights_run1_42161.pb
I also use fritz and install lc0.exe as a normal chess engine. And that's it.
I don't change the engine parameters. The network file is detected automatically.
AMD FX 8350 is a pretty modern processor, but it is much better to use the GPU for the LC0. I have a NVidia GT 1030 graphics card. It's a cheap card, but it's still 10x faster than a CPU (Intel i5 mobile or AMD Ryzen 3). For example, the difference is that on the CPU the depth of analysis is 3-4 and now 8-10.
Currently a good choice for the LC0 is the RTX card (much better than GTX). Thanks to it you can increase your speed by another 10x-20x.
If you think about OpenCL (AMD card), my observations show that the speed will be 50% of that of CUDA (NVidia). I checked both versions of LC0 on my GPU.
I downloaded:
lc0-v0.21.0-windows-cuda.zip
My path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\ChessBase\Engines\LC0_CUDA
in the directory:
cublas64_100.dll
cudart64_100.dll
cudnn64_7.dll
lc0.exe
weights_run1_42161.pb
I also use fritz and install lc0.exe as a normal chess engine. And that's it.
I don't change the engine parameters. The network file is detected automatically.