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i downloaded and unpacked the zip file.
rescanned and every things honkey dorey now.
regards
mike

hi dr. D.,
this is the first time ever i have encountered files that could'nt be scanned.
i have been using avast for more than ten years.
i'll give another it another try.
regards
mike

i got a warning from avast antivirus about this download.
i did a scan and found it contained some files that could not be scanned
so i deleted the file.
any reason for such unscanable file?
regards
mike

hi peter,
same here till the last version.
i deleted the learn line and it seems like its settled down.
no glitchs so far.
ive had crafty running on fics since 2000 and the only
other problem i had was my anti virus sandboxing it.

regards
mike

thanks peter,
i get those core and memery errors in console mode too.
i'll try the newest winboard.
regards
mike

hi prof hyatt. i found the problem,hash table size 2048 M. they dont like that,went back to 1024M. using a core i5,has 2 proccessers but runs two threads on each. verified with task manager.crafty also announces 4 cores on fics. i thought you had disabled learning and book learning? if not i have a ...

ok i found this older uncluttered rc file .
doesnt work with previous versions.
newest still working though.

mt=4
log off
hash=2048M
hashp=196M
learn=0
ponder on
swindle off
resign 0
book random 1
book width 5
egtb
tbpath=c:\usbwb\tb
cache=8M
exit


regards
mike

well i removed the crafty rc from the engine file. they all run know. the last thing i remember doing was increasing the hash table and pawn hash size. now i've forgotten the old correct sizing.i thought crafty ajusted either up or down to a size it could use automatticly/ i'll see if i cann find an...

on another interesting note; all my previous versions of crafty now exit unespactently on startup in winboard. heres a winboard debug recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal WinBoard 4.3.15m + crafty-233-64-ja Reset(1, 0) from gameMode 0 recognized 'normal' (-1) as variant normal GameEnds(0, (nul...

ok peter, the newer rc has a lot of stuff i dont reconize. xboard egtb #adaptive 750K 24M 192M 24M 48M tbpath=c:\usbwb\tb cache=32M ponder on mode=tournament # (for use use with ponder on) swindle on # (Allows Crafty to try to win drawn games (according to Endgame Tables)) learn 0 # (default) noise ...