New Software Announcement - SIXTH SENSE

Soh · #1 08-09-2006, 12:21 AM

What the hell is PT Aggregator?

Back In Black · #2 08-09-2006, 01:13 AM

You guys really need to stop releasing new versions without putting any release notes on your website. I have an idea what PT aggregator is, but why am I downloading it without any real info on what it is or instructions on how to use it?

Also, Sixth Sense is running insanely slow since this upgrade.

Basically I would appreciate knowing what just changed when I upgrade. Put a release notes section on the website.

Sharksfan · #3 08-09-2006, 01:18 AM

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You guys really need to stop releasing new versions without putting any release notes on your website. I have an idea what PT aggregator is, but why am I downloading it without any real info on what it is or instructions on how to use it?

Also, Sixth Sense is running insanely slow since this upgrade.

Basically I would appreciate knowing what just changed when I upgrade. Put a release notes section on the website.

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I totally agree, there should never be an upgrade without notes letting me know what's being upgraded, ESPECIALLY if it's going to be putting new icons on my desktop, like this PT Aggregator, which, when I open, asks for a password, and when I try to cancel, it won't let me out of the program, I had to Ctrl/Alt/Del to shut it down.

SixthSense · #4 08-09-2006, 08:28 AM

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You guys really need to stop releasing new versions without putting any release notes on your website. I have an idea what PT aggregator is, but why am I downloading it without any real info on what it is or instructions on how to use it?

Also, Sixth Sense is running insanely slow since this upgrade.

Basically I would appreciate knowing what just changed when I upgrade. Put a release notes section on the website.

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I totally agree, there should never be an upgrade without notes letting me know what's being upgraded, ESPECIALLY if it's going to be putting new icons on my desktop, like this PT Aggregator, which, when I open, asks for a password, and when I try to cancel, it won't let me out of the program, I had to Ctrl/Alt/Del to shut it down.

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Hey all, sorry about the update w/o notes. It was late, there were some serious bugs, we tested and upgraded about 5 different builds before we got the results we wanted.

Ben has all of the release notes, but I'll give you all a rundown of what was changed.

The PT Aggregator has been discussed in this thread a few times. It is what Ben has been working on for the past week or so. Basically, it takes the hand history information from ALL of your databases, compresses it into one large stat file, and updates that file when more hand histories are loaded into your database.

**THIS SHOULD BE A MAJOR FIX FOR PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE DATABASES, AND PEOPLE WITH SPEED ISSUES**

So instead of going through your entire database when bringing up stats, all Sixth Sense will have to do is check this stat file.

Ben reported speeds of between 5 and 10x faster than the original database querying method.

1) Currently only works with SQL
2) Should be flexible enough to be added to other stat programs (HUDs especially) to increase their speed as well.
3) If you dont have version 1.0.0.35 yet, check for new updates.

If you are having any issues with the new PT Aggregator, check your SixthSense folder (in program files) and delete PTAgg.ini. This will make Sixth Sense work as it always has. And if for some reason your Aggregator program is having issues, but you want to continue using it, delete the PTAgg.ini and restart the PTAgg client. Make sure PTAgg is closed in your taskbar.

Once Ben is up, he'll be able to give you all build notes and any other information I've forgotten.

Thanks,
-Dan

SixthSense · #5 08-09-2006, 08:33 AM

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You guys really need to stop releasing new versions without putting any release notes on your website. I have an idea what PT aggregator is, but why am I downloading it without any real info on what it is or instructions on how to use it?

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In the SixthSense Menu, select "View History". Also, under Advanced Options (CTRL-O), set "Auto SHow History File" to True, this will automatically show it after every new build is installed.

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Also, Sixth Sense is running insanely slow since this upgrade.

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Most likely this is due to the PartyPoker update with the new Monster graphics. Try running the "DeMonster" script found on this board.

SixthSense should score fairly quickly if nothing else is open. If you have 12 PartyPoker tables open with PAHud scoring them, SixthSense will definitely slow down. Its probably best to start SixthSense first, let it complete its first scoring, then bring up PartyPoker, PA Hud, etc.

-Ben

Sharksfan · #6 08-09-2006, 10:15 AM

So if I only have 1 Database, I probably don't need to use the PT Aggregator?

SixthSense · #7 08-09-2006, 10:38 AM

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So if I only have 1 Database, I probably don't need to use the PT Aggregator?

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It will still speed you up. If you are happy with the speed that SS scores your tables, then you might not need it.

If you do use it, please give us whatever feedback you have (if its faster, bugs, etc). Its a new piece to our system, and we need feedback on it.

Thanks,
-Ben

teddyFBI · #8 08-09-2006, 11:05 AM

Will the agg DB basically compile all the stats from your indiv DB's into one "master" DB so that it will treat all your PT DBs as one big DB (and not have those # of hands errors anymore)?

EDIT: ALSO, i'm a little confused about which application i want to select the DBs I want to use for the SS scan...do I use the PTAGG or SS's own DB selector window to specify which DBs I want to be queried for the search?

SixthSense · #9 08-09-2006, 12:27 PM

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Will the agg DB basically compile all the stats from your indiv DB's into one "master" DB so that it will treat all your PT DBs as one big DB (and not have those # of hands errors anymore)?

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It summarizes them. So if you had 2 PT databases with 50,000 detail records, in the aggregated database it might only have 1,000 summary records. The detail info isn't copied over for speed purposes. I'm not sure what you mean by "# of hands errors".

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EDIT: ALSO, i'm a little confused about which application i want to select the DBs I want to use for the SS scan...do I use the PTAGG or SS's own DB selector window to specify which DBs I want to be queried for the search?

Sorry, it is confusing. If you use PTAGG, then you just use its Config dialog. Doing so automatically sets up SS to use ptagg for its data source. We need to rework the GUI so this is a more clear.

-Ben

pshabi · #10 08-09-2006, 12:47 PM

Sixth sense has stopped working for me. I've been on the road for 5 days and haven't played online.

Last night, I opened 6th sense w/o Party open to see if there was an update to download. I downloaded the update and it ran, detecting zero tables.

However, once I opned up Party, 6th sense still detected zero tables.

In order to remedy this, I:

1) restarted 6th sense
2) restarted Party
3) rebooted the computer
and now, the next day, I've done all of those things again and it still says zero tables.

What's up here?