Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 16:50:07 02/01/99
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On February 01, 1999 at 17:44:49, James T. Walker wrote: >On February 01, 1999 at 17:00:38, Marc van Hal wrote: > >>On February 01, 1999 at 16:41:40, John Merlino wrote: >> >>>Several of you have reported changing the CM.INI file to change the hash table >>>size in CM6000. >>> >>>BE VERY CAREFUL HERE! There can be SEVERAL INI files in your Chessmaster >>>directory and subdirectories, and it can result in you THINKING you changed the >>>hash table size, but did not. >>> >>>Specifically, every time you create a new user, you create a new directory in >>>the Users directory under your Chessmaster directory, and a copy of CM.INI is >>>placed there. When you log in as that user, it is THIS INI file that is loaded, >>>NOT the CM.INI file in the Chessmaster directory. So, you MUST edit the INI file >>>of the user that you are logging in as (named USER.INI, where "USER" is your >>>login name), rather than the CM.INI file that is located in the Chessmaster >>>directory proper. >>>In the other hand then Fritz5 Chessmaster also loves utiletys as Magnaram97 when you start to change the hastable in chessmaster it is adviseable to have such a utilety too als Rebel works good but Magnaram but Nimzo98 then again doesnt like it >>>If you log in as "Guest", then I BELIEVE the CM.INI in the Chessmaster directory >>>is the one that is used. I would advise against this, however, just to be on the >>>safe side.... >>> >>>jm > >Actually I believe the CM.INI file is for the Chessmaster personality. The >DEFAULT.INI is the one that is copied each time you create a new personality. >If you change the DEFAULT.INI first then all personalities created after that >will have the default settings. >Jim Walker No at first I changed both CM.ini and the defualt one, but I was playing with a user I created, and when I did change the user ini file, it was still at the one meg size, and even though the default one is lager than 1 meg in my file now, any new user I create are still 1 meg, you have to change the ini in the user directory every time you create a new user if you want to play with lager hash tables.
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