Author: William Penn
Date: 20:33:06 03/08/04
I've played around with Shredder 8 in the native Chessbase GUI for quite awhile and the only fatal bug I've noticed happens when changing hash size. Typically I'm using infinite analysis mode at the time. For example the last time it happened I had 768MB hash active initially. When I reduced it to 256MB hash, the fatal exception happened, causing Shredder 8/GUI to close automatically. It was OK after starting again. The other bug is less serious and has to do with linkages between the chessboard and database windows in the GUI. Typically again I am running infinite analysis mode, and have both windows opened & active with their icons on taskbar. Now if I have the chessboard window open full screen and open my text processor (EditPad Lite) in a partial screen... The full screen window automatically switches to the database window with the text processor on top. It shouldn't. It should remain with the chessboard window on screen. There's no reason why it should switch automatically to the database window when a different application is opened on a superimposed partial screen. That's not a serious flaw, I suppose, only a slight inconvenience, but it is another indication of problems in the CB GUI coding or compilation, and or incompatibility with the Shredder 8 engine. I haven't used other engines enough to know if it still happens with them. I have also used Shredder 8 UCI with the Classic Shredder 6 GUI, and these bugs do not happen there. So it's definitely a problem with the CB GUI. I've reinstalled Shredder 8/CB GUI several times. The Classic GUI works generally OK unless I'm multitasking other software, which is often the case. It is very reluctant to lend any processor time to other applications, which usually run superslow, and sometimes causes exceptions or errors. So I usually can't use the Classic GUI. [Windows XP Home, Athlon XP 2400+/2.0GHz, 1G RAM] WP
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