New free engine - Orion

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Re: New free engine - Orion

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David Carteau wrote:
Leto wrote: Unfortunately I couldn't test it, it's crashing when the engine has to make its move. It loads up and as soon as it has to make its first move it crashes.
Yes, Graham (from CCRL) has a similar problem on a PC without popcnt instruction : I apologize and I'm very confused...

I fixed the problem and I am currently playing non regression tests. The patched version should be available tomorrow morning.

Does your CPU support popcnt instruction (maybe there is another problem, according to the Murphy's law ;)) ?

Thanks,

David
I have two computers that do (FX-8300, and i3), and two that don't (core 2 duo mobile and Q9650). It was on the c2d machine that it crashed, and I'm sure it would too on my Q9650. I now tried it on my i3 and it worked, it opened up a dos box saying something about popcnt support=yes, then it closed and it worked. I'm certain it would work on my FX-8300 as well but I won't have access to it until tomorrow.

Usually what I've seen other authors do is they release several versions, a standard version and an SSE4.2 version, because a lot of people still haven't upgraded to a modern cpu.
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Leto wrote: I have two computers that do (FX-8300, and i3), and two that don't (core 2 duo mobile and Q9650). It was on the c2d machine that it crashed, and I'm sure it would too on my Q9650. I now tried it on my i3 and it worked, it opened up a dos box saying something about popcnt support=yes, then it closed and it worked. I'm certain it would work on my FX-8300 as well but I won't have access to it until tomorrow.

Usually what I've seen other authors do is they release several versions, a standard version and an SSE4.2 version, because a lot of people still haven't upgraded to a modern cpu.
Thanks Leto for your feedback. I found yesterday evening an old laptop with a Core 2 Duo (T5500) CPU : after reinstalling Windows 7, I reproduced the problem and fixed it (the bug was strange : I will post a specific topic).

A patched version will be available soon but for the moment, according to the Murphy's law (:)) :
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Thanks Norbert for this information :)
Leto wrote: Usually what I've seen other authors do is they release several versions, a standard version and an SSE4.2 version, because a lot of people still haven't upgraded to a modern cpu.
Yes, if problems persist, I won't have the choice. But I found interesting to find how to provide only one executable for everyone... It's also a sort of challenge :)
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Re: New free engine - Orion

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fern wrote:Graham only know to write one line of code, which is the following:

Thanks .....(put the name of the author)


when someone present an engine. He is polite, our chap here.

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Thanks Fern. :lol:
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Re: New free engine - Orion

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David Carteau wrote: A patched version will be available soon
The patch is available for all users that encountered problems on hosts without 'popcnt' support. Simply re-download Orion v0.2 from here.

I hope everything will be ok now... Don't hesitate to report any new problems. Thanks !
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wait my next engine, Moron 5.0...

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Re: New free engine - Orion

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David Carteau wrote:
David Carteau wrote: A patched version will be available soon
The patch is available for all users that encountered problems on hosts without 'popcnt' support. Simply re-download Orion v0.2 from here.

I hope everything will be ok now... Don't hesitate to report any new problems. Thanks !
Thanks, that seems to have fixed the issue.
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No doubt about that

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fern wrote:wait my next engine, Moron 5.0...

Fern
You're gonna start another one one of your spamming threads again ?

I don't know how Argentinian humour works, but in the rest of the world it works like this: when you make the same joke 100 times, it stops being funny...
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Argentinian I am not, but from Chile.
Respect the lack of fun of my joke, maybe it is so, but for the same token does not deserves your angry post
No, I do not intend to begin nothing.
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