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Subject: Re: SSDF(Junior 6 - Century 3)-- What Century Settings Used?

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 07:44:01 12/17/00

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On December 17, 2000 at 10:28:24, Jeff Lischer wrote:

>On December 17, 2000 at 04:47:04, Tony Hedlund wrote:
>
>>On December 16, 2000 at 09:27:11, Jeff Lischer wrote:
>>
>>>Tony, can you say what Century 3 setting you are using to play this game? I
>>>assume strongest settings, but what about the learning settings. Do you use
>>>"rebel a" or "rebel a b"? Do you know if all SSDF testers use the same settings?
>>>Thanks.
>>
>>Hello Jeff,
>>
>>Bertil got a email from Ed which he posted to all our testers. It said:
>>
>>Hi Bertil,
>>
>>The best way to test C3 is:
>>
>>1) default settings
>>2) Hash table size 60 MB (minimum)
>>3) REBEL.EXE W6 A
>>
>>The "A" parameter disables the automatic abort when the game
>>is at -5.00 cq + 5.00 and enables learning. So don't forget the
>>"A" parameter.
>>
>>To ensure C3 is on its strongest settings see menu OPTIONS ->
>>STRONGEST SETTINGS.
>>
>>Tony
>
>Thanks for the ansewer. Just one follow-up question: do you really use the "W6"
>option? That would limit C3's hash table size to 60MB, whereas it looks like the
>other programs usually get 128 MB. To get 100 MB for C3 you would have to use:
>"REBEL.EXE W7 A" then go to OPTIONS -> STRONGEST SETTINGS.

Right, but then Rebel must autoplay from Windows, which is not always feasible.
Besides, in Rebel is slightly faster in DOS, about 5%.

Enrique



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