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Re: Fire 6 is available!

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 11:59 am
by Krzysztof Grzelak
kranium wrote:Hi Krzysztof-

No need to change these, leave at default values.
Thank you for your answer.

Re: Fire 6 is available!

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:37 pm
by ernest
kranium wrote: Sorry no Haswell compile...
and it's Windows only.
PLEASE Norman !

Can you make it XP compatible
(or at least XP x64)

Re: Fire 6 is available!

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 11:52 pm
by kranium
ernest wrote:
kranium wrote: Sorry no Haswell compile...
and it's Windows only.
PLEASE Norman !

Can you make it XP compatible
(or at least XP x64)
Sorry about that Ernest, but Windows XP is 16 years old now...from 2001.
Please understand just how much effort it would be for me to setup a box with XP on it, and try to find out what the issue is.

Have you tried setting compatibility mode?
Right-click on the exe and choose Compatibility...

If this is of no help, may I kindly suggest you get a new PC (or a new OS)?

Re: Fire 6 is available!

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 1:51 am
by jwes
kranium wrote:
ernest wrote:
kranium wrote: Sorry no Haswell compile...
and it's Windows only.
PLEASE Norman !

Can you make it XP compatible
(or at least XP x64)
Sorry about that Ernest, but Windows XP is 16 years old now...from 2001.
Please understand just how much effort it would be for me to setup a box with XP on it, and try to find out what the issue is.
Microsoft has a vm with xp preinstalled, so you could just download and run it.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... px?id=8002

Re: Fire 6 is available!

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:07 am
by Dann Corbit
jwes wrote:
kranium wrote:
ernest wrote:
kranium wrote: Sorry no Haswell compile...
and it's Windows only.
PLEASE Norman !

Can you make it XP compatible
(or at least XP x64)
Sorry about that Ernest, but Windows XP is 16 years old now...from 2001.
Please understand just how much effort it would be for me to setup a box with XP on it, and try to find out what the issue is.
Microsoft has a vm with xp preinstalled, so you could just download and run it.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... px?id=8002
He could also simply target xp without having to have xp. Unfortunately, building for XP makes the project broken for important things like profile and code analysis.

Re: Fire 6 is available!

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 1:59 am
by ernest
Dann Corbit wrote: Unfortunately, building for XP makes the project broken for important things like profile and code analysis.
Don't understand what you mean, Dann.
Almost every today's chess program is still able to run in XP.

Re: Fire 6 is available!

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 2:15 am
by ernest
kranium wrote: Please understand just how much effort it would be for me to setup a box with XP on it, and try to find out what the issue is.

Have you tried setting compatibility mode?
Right-click on the exe and choose Compatibility...
Hi Norman !

Yes I know, starting with Fire 4, there was no longer XP compatibility.
Any idea what event could have trigged that ?

And I wonder why, since most other chess programs are still XP compatible.

Since you don't have an XP computer for testing, maybe if you find the time, you can send me a few test exes for me to test (preferably XP x64, no popcnt).

Note : of course I tried compatibility mode, no success...

Re: Fire 6 is available!

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 7:07 am
by Modern Times
If you're running XP, I think you just have to accept that some new programme releases won't work.

Re: Fire 6 is available!

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:34 pm
by Modern Times
FRC Ratings list updated finally.

+45 Elo, a very nice improvement

http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404FRC/

Re: Fire 6 is available!

Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2017 1:09 am
by ernest
Thomas Lagershausen wrote:This is very nice because Fire 6 understands something about chess.

[D]3r1r1k/3b2pp/1q5b/pP1Ppp2/R6P/2N3P1/1P2BP2/3Q1RK1 w - - 3 24 bm Rc4 with the plan to play Rc6
Hi Thomas,

Do you have an infinite analysis showing that Fire 6.1 likes Rc4 ?
At what depth ?