Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 09:22:30 10/09/03
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On October 09, 2003 at 11:46:06, Robert Allgeuer wrote: >>>>Hi, >>>>when starting up Crafty 19.4 (executable from Dann Corbit´s site) it takes ages >>>>to recognize the tablebases, in fact around 3 to 4 minutes. There are no error >>>>messages and everything works fine after that. My old Crafty 19.1 recognises the >>>>egtbs with an identical crafty.rc file almost instantaneously. >>>> >>>>My rc file: >>>>hash 96M >>>>hashp 8M >>>>cache 8M >>>>drawscore=0 >>>>log off >>>>book on >>>>book random 1 >>>>book width 5 >>>>learn 0 >>>>resign 9 >>>>tbpath=f:\tb >>>>egtb >>>> >>>>Is this normal? If it is a problem is it known and is there a work-around? >>> >>>Probably due to the new EGTB code (which will work with Eugene's new humongous >>>EGTB files) >> >> >>It shouldn't be any slower however, unless he has added some of the new >>endgame tables. The more you add, the more indices there are to read. > >I have a full set of 5 men, 4 and 3 men tablebases, and none of the new 6 men. >It is under these conditions that startup takes these 3 to 4 minutes on my >system. Startup messages indicate that this is exactly when Crafty looks for the >tablebases. During this time it appears that Crafty does not do anything, no >disk activity and no CPU usage. Crafty 19.1 with exactly the same rc file >recognises the identical tablebases within a few seconds. I had the same effect >with Crafty 19.3b, btw, but attributed it to beta status or whatever and stuck >with Crafty 19.1. After the 3-4 minutes etgbs are however correctly recognised, >the respective console message is printed and everything works fine. >I conclude from your post that the same problem does not occur on other >machines. >Running on Win2k SP2, Athlon TB 1.1 MHz, 512 MB RAM, secondary IDE disk, chess >program and egtbs are on same physical disk and logical partition (F:). > >Robert I suspect that the problem is that you have only sp2 for Win2k, and probably you don't have the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 installed from the windows update site. Dann's build of crafty uses the .net compiler and I have a friend that had a silimiar problem. When he installed the .NET framewark, all was fine. Give that a try. Also update to sp4 for Windows 2000. Peter.
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