Stockfish freezes with Chessbase GUI

Who else experiences micro-freezes (around 1-3 seconds) when analysing with Stockfish with multiple lines (I am using 4 lines at the same time, using only 1 line the problem does not occur) in one of the Chessbase GUIs (e.g. CB15-GUI, Fritz-GUI)? It seems the Chessbase GUI has some bug with the UCI protocoll or setting when connected to Stockfish...

The issue has been reported here, so I am at least not the only one having this problem (on two different machines with different hardware/software):

http://support.stockfishchess.org/discussions/problems/7978-stockfish-not-responding-when-analyzing-in-fritz

My machine has 16 GB RAM and when analysing only 4 GB RAM are used including the OS (no other software running). Stockfish will use all the CPU-resources available (not RAM, that depends on the Hashtable-size) also when you use only one line. You probably mean to reduce the number of physical/virtual cores the engine is allowed to use. Reducing that does not help as well (and using all cores should not lead to freezes anyway).

Komodo or Fritz engine are running fine by the way. But I like Stockfish more (solves complex tactical positions faster from my experience).

The chess engine will not use all the RAM, the default hashsize is 1024 MB in CB. The hashsize is an important factor, using all the memory would be a bad behaviour (in short games it leads to lower performance). I can verify the memory consuption in the taskmanager.

I tested the newest Stockfish dev build now and set the number of threads to 2 (I have 2 physical cores). It seems to work now, Thank for pointing me in that direction! Maybe its because of the newest Stockfish build, or maybe the way I configured the cores was differently this time (I used 2 threads before, but configured it after I created the UCI engine). For some engine parameter settings the CB GUI is not always working perfectly I assume (e.g. in the CB14.7 patchnotes it reads: "Regression: Some UCI-Engines loaded with 1 cpu if "intelligent cpu usage" was switched off and no cpu setting was specified in the uci file.". So there has been at least one bug before.

Update: I also updated Win 10 to the newest build (Creator update), that could also be a factor.

I still freezes after using it for a while now... okay, back to Komodo (interesting to see Komdo evaluating some positions differntly anyway...)

The freezes are still there when anlysis with multiple lines at once in Chessbase 15, Chessbase 16, etc.

Whta a crappy software!

No time to fix the bugs - They're already hard at work on the next version!

Which will contain all the previous bugs... the small German company Chessbase has one developer working on it... the changes from each version are minimal... there havent been real changes for many versions now (including all the bugs from previous versions).

I wish Chess.com would also develop an offline GUI for chess analysis. At least Chess.com took over the chess server market from Chessbase, but the GUI market is still basically a monopol for Chessbase. Please Chess.com, develop your own version to generate some competition. Chessbase showed for years that they are not willing and not capable to develop software. Chessbase not fully working with the most popular chess engine for years is a joke.

Now that the 'Chess Boom' has happened it seems like it would make more sense financially for someone to take a shot at making a superior GUI based analysis program, but Chess.com seems fully content with the way they have monetized their web analysis features...

It would be nice, because Chessbase is pretty terrible software.