Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 10:19:31 07/01/99
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The most probable reason is that your TB path shows to the CD-ROM, but there is no disk in CD-ROM. Than it takes some time to find out that "device is not ready". Eugene On July 01, 1999 at 08:57:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 01, 1999 at 05:07:21, Shep wrote: > >>On June 30, 1999 at 23:58:29, Ted Sutton wrote: >> >>>When the program opens, it takes a long time for "initializing tablebases." >>> Can one change a setting so the tablebases are no initialized (assuming you >>>are in the middlegame)? >> >>Edit the file C:\windows\chssbase.ini. >>In the [Tablebase] section, there's a number which determines the cache size for >>the tablebases. Decrease this value to such an extent that Hiarcs takes much >>less time for initializing. >>Your description indicates that the number for your system is too high, causing >>unnecessary swapping. >>The "initializing tablebases" message should not take longer than 2 seconds on >>most systems. >> >>--- >>Shep > > >That might not be the only reason. If you use compressed tablebases, then >the first thing it has to do is open every tablebase file, and grab the >decompression indices it needs. This is several megabytes of data if you have >_all_ the 3-4-5 piece files. If you have a slow disk, this is even worse. > >And no, you can't avoid this, because before you can probe, the decompression >tables have to be prepared. It makes more sense to do this _before_ the game >starts, rather than at a critical point when there is little time left on the >clock in the endgame...
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