Author: pavel
Date: 18:05:47 08/19/01
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On August 19, 2001 at 20:06:39, Peter Berger wrote: >On August 19, 2001 at 19:49:42, pavel wrote: > >>I m having the same problem, and that happened more than 2-3 times. > >I am not sure you really have the same problem, pavel. > >> >>I ussually setup crafty with other programs to play a big chunk of games under >>winboard with /mg command. and then I go to sleep. >> >>last night I gave mg/60 and went to bed after watching the first few games. >> >>in the morning I see only 11 games completed and "crafty exited unexpectedly" >> >>and this is not the first time it happened. >> >>I remember the .rc file causes some problems with crafty , if not setup rightly, >>since I couldnt find whats the problem, I deleted the .rc file and let it run. >>It seems to be running smoothly now (without the .rc) file, but I am not usre if >>this is the actual solution. >> >This definitely can't be the solution to your problem IMHO. > >Two notes: > >a.) Download a reliable executable, namely the newest wcrafty-18.10.exe from Bob >Hyatt's site . Maybe you tried to compile for yourself and goofed or you tried >one of the Corbit executables ( not all of them will work well on every >computer) . > >b.) DON'T delete the Crafty.rc file. This will weaken Crafty. > >An example for a normal Crafty.rc file for your computer matches. > >hash 48M >hashp 10M >tbpath=C:\tbs >cache 16M > > >There isn't much you can do wrong here . Only thing you have to pay attention to >is that the last line of this file _has_ to be empty. > >hash should be a 3/4 of a power of 2 ; hashp about a quarter of that . Tbpath is >the path for your Nalimov tb's in case you have some of them installed ; cache >helps improving TB performance. > >For more details you could have a look at the crafty.doc on the download site >and yes : it's very much possible that you already knew all this and are bored >now - so what ;-) ? > >pete > >> >>pavs... nope, didnt compile it myself, but thanks for the tips though. ;) and go the most reliable executable available (from bobs ftp.) pavs
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