Fail-soft or Fail-hard

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CheckersGuy
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Fail-soft or Fail-hard

Post by CheckersGuy »

Hey guys,
my engine currently uses fail-hard + pvs ( and all the other pruning stuff). Is there any meaningfull difference when switching to failSoft ? Do all of the top engines use failSoft or failHard ?

Thanks :D
tomitank
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Re: Fail-soft or Fail-hard

Post by tomitank »

Hi!
CheckersGuy wrote:Do all of the top engines use failSoft or failHard ?
fail-soft