Best way to test Prodeo in tournament comp vs comp?

[Howard E]

couple of questions ...

do I run in winboard mode or uci?
also, I tried Arena 5.1 but in a 40 game match it never completes as often the engines do not load all the time so many games show losss on time after 1 move (these I run prodeo as winboard.

Am i missing some way to make the Arena 5.1 more stable?

ty in advance

[hgm]

You could of course use an intrinsically reliable GUI instead. If the problem is with the engines there is not much the GUI could do about it, though.

[yurikvelo]

Arena -> Engine Tournament -> Start/Quit -> Additional delay during engine start phase (seconds, if needed)

[Howard E]

Thanks for the replys ...

I made sure to add delay for reloading engines was set.
But still no luck.

But then I switched to Prodeo uci version and it seemed to remain solid.

Also it could be my win 10 or even my virus software. or the who knows really.