Author: William Penn
Date: 20:01:45 02/13/01
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On February 13, 2001 at 21:39:16, John Merlino wrote: >On February 13, 2001 at 21:11:18, William Penn wrote: > >>After applying the patch, the custom chessboard won't work properly anymore. >>Note that I only use the 2D custom board with the figurine chess pieces in the >>Game Room. >> >>When attempting to load a layout which I had setup and saved before applying the >>patch, it showed multiple overlapped custom chessboards (a mess) without any >>chess pieces. While playing around with it, trying to restore the custom board >>and pieces, trying to redefine the setup, trying to save and load the layout >>from disk, etc., I either get a fatal system error message: >> >>"Chessmaster caused an invalid page fault in module ANIM8.DLL at..." >> >>or >> >>when CM is started-up initially, or the layout is loaded from disk, the custom >>chessboard is empty (no chess pieces). >> >>I wondered if the patch had downloaded properly. My first patch download gave >>cm8k101.exe, 618,925 bytes. So I redownloaded the patch to see if the number of >>bytes was the same. It's the same. >> >>So, I suppose I'll have to uninstall/reinstall CM8k then apply the patch again. >>That should indicate whether there was some kind of anamolous corruption of my >>original CM8k installation that's causing the problem. I'll report back later... >> >>WP > >This bug was just reported by someone else. Sadly, it's a new one (will my pain >never end?). > >Just avoid the Custom Board until the new patch. Sorry about that, > >jm > >p.s. The "new patch" that I mentioned above is going to be released at the same >time as the initial "European" patch, and both of them will be v1.0.2, to avoid >confusion. So, any new bugs found (or old ones that weren't found until after >the patch was shipped), will also be fixed in 1.0.2. That seems to work OK in my preliminary tests, i.e. simply avoid the custom board, which doesn't work with the patch. There's a possible new problem though... In Game Room, infinite time, with a human vs human game in progress: Even without any special user windows open, there is one king engine active as indicated by the Ctrl-Alt-Delete task window. There is no reason for it to be open in a human vs human game! I don't think it should be open. Then if the Visual Thinking window is opened (Chessmaster button selected), or the Thinking Lines window (Chessmaster box checked), a second king engine is activated. With two king engines running simultaneously, that will greatly slow things down. It makes use of those special windows impractical. Only one king engine was open with the original CM8k in this situation, so the patch has apparently introduced a new bug in that regard. WP
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