Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Chess Assistant 666

Author: Barry Culp

Date: 06:25:08 07/24/01

Go up one level in this thread


On July 23, 2001 at 17:50:14, Wayne Murphy wrote:

>Have I purchased v.666 of the Beast?  I was happy with CA5.1 but bought CA6 and
>I am perplexed that it seems to have some kind of memory bug.  Does anyone else
>have their program slow down the longer they use the ICC interface? Can anyone
>tell me what the letters and number with the % symbol mean on the status bar at
>the bottom of the screen?  When I use a CA6 feature, the number goes down.
>Memory resource free indicator?  Eventually, the program freezes up and I have
>to reboot.
>
>I am running the program on a PII 350 Mh with 256 Mg's of RAM.
>
>All help is appreciated.
>
>Wayne Murphy

Wayne, I recently purchased CA 6.0. If you search the help/contents for GDI ,
there is a short explanation...

"Shows the general resources of your system at the bottom of general window. If
GDI resources < 10%, the program couldnt work correctly"

On my notebook (celeron 450 mh with 128 mb ram) the stats are :

GDI 42% 21.8 MB

I have not run into the ICC problem that you have described. However, even
though I like CA...it is full of annoying bugs. A few that I have encountered
are :

1) engine matches - sometimes one engine just uses up all its time and the match
just dies.

2) be careful when cleaning up a database by eliminating duplicates. CA
sometimes cleans up more than it should.

3) trees - sometimes when you create a new tree. the system tree config makes
that specific tree the default for all current base trees. You have to go into
the tools/tree options/edit config and set the current base tree to "current"

I see in other messages on this board that a CA 6 service pack may be available
soon. Hopefully some of these bugs will be fixed.

Barry Culp



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.