Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 16:55:24 10/28/00
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On October 28, 2000 at 14:50:47, Howard Exner wrote: >On October 27, 2000 at 18:14:08, Bertil Eklund wrote: > >>On October 27, 2000 at 14:55:05, Howard Exner wrote: >> >>>Regarding the locking up in the Dos box. Previous Rebel's locked up in the >>>windows dos box for me also. I was expecting the odd lockup, or just an >>>unexpected closing of the program under windows. This time around not one >>>shutdown after over 100 hours of play (mostly auto testing in engine vs engine). >>>I use win98se. >>> >>>Dos mode works with the limitation of 60 MB hash, even on a 128MB or more >>>system. Don't know why this is though. The usual 3% speed up in dos is still >>>there. Your suggestion long ago of disabling the joystick was usefull >>>under windows mode. With joystick enabled it is about 5% faster under dos than >>>the dos box. I exclusively played Rebel under Dos in the past, except just for >>>light sessions. Now I just use the windows dos box. >> >>Hi! >> >>Exclude the mouse and you have another 1-2% speedup, exclude the CD and you have >>another 3-5% speedup.(I guess you already have exclude it) >> >>Bertil > >Hi Bertil, > Thanks for the tips. >No I did not know about the mouse and CDrom speedups. This is probably useful >for comp vs comp autoplay. I do know that nodes per second will drop if you move >the mouse continuously while Rebel is thinking. For me I'm dependant on the >mouse in Rebel and disabling the cdrom would cause a riot in my household. > >Do you or anyone else know why in dos mode there is a 60 mb hash maximum for >Rebel? That for systems with 128MB or more of ram. Hi! When I play with Century1 in a Dos-box I have 120mb hash (if I don't remember wrong?!) I have 128 mb of ram. Bertil
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