Program has problems handling "really large" games *(as si4)*
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#39 Program has problems handling "really large" games *(as si4)*
I am using ScidvsPC 4.22, built from source on Linux Ubuntu. I already had the same problem with version 4.20.
My repertoire databases are pretty large. My Black repertoire is almost 1 MB. I saved White various options on the first move as separate games. I would guess 1.e4 c5 would amount to something like 250KB. So you can imagine there are lots and lots of variations. I used to use Chessbase and converted the cbh's to pgn to be able to use them on ScidvsPC, and a couple years ago the pgn's to si4. Chessbase had these custom comments like (better than, worse than -- in the sense of a certain move being inferior to the main line -- I am not talking about +- and such), and those are now $143 and such. There are lots of these fragments throughout the move file I can see next to the board. I don't know if that's related to the issue -- just putting it out there.
My issue is that the program is really slow when entering a new move; it takes like three seconds each time, which is really time consuming as you can imagine. I don't have the same issue with more stripped down files -- like for example analysis on a single opening variation only.
Is this issue known? Could this maybe be fix with a coming release? :) Thanks
Is it just the PGN window slowdown? Shut it and see. If so, try applying Gregor's tktext patch in the patches directory, do a make clean and make install.
Yes, that is correct. If I close the PGN Window, everything works smoothly
might this be fixed with a coming release?
I am a bit weary of applying this patch myself in fear of breaking something.
In any case, I couldn't find "Gregor's tktext" patch here: https://sourceforge.net/p/scidvspc/patches/
I saw something in files/support files, but that seems to pertain to MacOS
And one update: The fact that there were these weird artifacts from incompatible Chessbase comments doesn't matter.
I am having the same issue with building a repertoire in .si4 from scratch
The patch is with the source code, directory "patches"