Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:24:09 02/15/01
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On February 15, 2001 at 05:23:23, William Penn wrote: >(CM8000 patch - revisited) > >After getting over my earlier frustrations, somewhat... > >I reinstalled CM8000 clean then reapplied the cm8k101.exe patch. I am now >generally able to get the Game Room windows and engines to work properly under >infinite time control. The speed of analysis in the Thinking Lines window is now >correct (same as the unpatched version). Good news.... >The only difference which I can recall is that I did a Typical installation this >time. Previously I did a Custom installation and left out the Tutorials, etc. Do you recall what else you left out? It *might* be important.... <snip> >Nevertheless, there are still some problems when using a user-defined >personality -- one which I have defined (not one of the built-in personalities). >Sometimes the number of king engines gets stuck, and it's impossible to turn off >all engines without quitting then reloading CM. I expect that I can probably >work around that problem and avoid it, although I'm not exactly sure what causes >it yet. Can you send me one or more of the custom personalities that do not work properly? My only (completely random) guess might be if you have set the transposition table size to be very large, and you have some bad memory somewhere, something like what you described below might happen. But, that's a bit of a reach.... >Also in one instance while using a user-defined personality with the White box >checked in the Thinking Lines window... I tried to uncheck the White box and ><i>IT IMMEDIATELY TURNED OFF MY COMPUTER!?</i> It wasn't like an ordinary >windows shutdown. The computer just turned off instantly. That indicates a more >serious system problem of some kind. I don't know much about the technicals >involved, but would guess that video drivers or a DirectX problem is indicated. Agreed. Which version of DirectX are you using? <snip> >The improvements in the Game Room windows are nice. However there is no gentle >way to put it... It is a royal pain in the ass to have the CD in the drive all >the time. For one reason my CD drive has a 15-20 second spin-up delay, which >slows down whatever I'm doing. I generally want/need to multitask CM with other >software, but that's not very easy with the CD requirement. > >WP Actually, that WAS a relatively gentle way of putting it, compared to others that I've read! ;-) Thanks for all of your help in the past, by the way.... jm
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