I’ve been unusually quiet on the Poker Copilot blog lately. That’s because I’ve been getting the most out of my Central American holiday.
Now I’m in a hotel room in San Salvador, El Salvador, at the end of my trip, and flying back to Germany tomorrow. In the last few days, I’ve done less sight-seeing, trekking, swimming, etc, and rested. So I’ve had time to deal with some Poker Copilot issues. Some specific issues I’ve dealt with:
By using “FIle” -> “Add PokerStars Tournament Audit…” you can now add PokerStars Knockout Bounties
I’ve changed the way unexpected crashes or power outages are handled. This means that the problems in recent versions with crashes and corrupt databases should be much less.
There are some other small tweaks and fixes which I’ll list when I release the update early next week. I just played a couple of tournaments and noticed that my MacBook Pro was getting extremely hot. It seems Poker Copilot was maxing out the CPU. I want to investigate what’s causing this once I’m back in my full office in Germany.
Some Poker Copilot users, new and old, have been having Poker Copilot consistently crashing on them, and not offering the chance to recover from this.
I’ve managed to trace this problem to an Apple issue. I’ve reported it to Apple developer support. Apple’s developer support tends to be first-rate and fast, so I hope to have a solution soon.
My apologies for anyone this is affecting. I’ll post a work-around as soon as I have one.
How you can tell if this affects you
When you run Poker Copilot, it will show you this message:
The bold text will always say, “Cannot launch Java application“. The lighter text may be different for you.
Poker Copilot 2.91 lost the Head-up Display (HUD) for some people. As far as I could determine, this was limited to PokerStars players with PowerPC Macs. It’s been roughly four years since Apple last produced PowerPC Macs – now they use Intel chips – so fortunately this didn’t affect too many people.
This problem is fixed in Poker Copilot 2.92, the current update.
Many thanks to loyal Poker Copilot customer Christophe who went above and beyond in helping me find and fix the problem. As I’m on holiday on a Caribbean island, his help was even more appreciated.
You only need to get this update if you have a PowerPC Mac.
Some people are having problems with PokerStars on Poker Copilot 2.91. I’m working on this, with the help of some patient Poker Copiloy customers. However I’m somewhat hampered at being able to solve this as quickly as I want, as I’m doing this in between some international flights. Not ideal, I know, and I appreciate your patience.
In the meantime, if this problem affects you, I recommend getting the last good update of Poker Copilot, 2.90. You can download it with this link:
Improved detection of Ongame Network software, and added a help message explaining why Ongame is not fully supported
Improved code to check for presence of poker apps – they no longer need to be in your “Applications” folder to be found
Updated the third-party database library to increase performance and stability
Database is now optimised at startup ONLY IF at least 10,000 hands have been added since the last database optimisation, leading to much faster startup if you have a large database
What’s fixed:
Fix to handle Merge Network’s “COMPLETE” bet type – seen infrequently
Fix for unlikely but possible situation where on startup Poker Copilot could crash
I’m spending the next few weeks in Central America and wanted to brush up my Spanish by doing some more Pimsleur audio Spanish lessons. On the iTunes store I did a search for “pimsleur spanish”:
Notice the scroll bar: there were roughly 200 matches, and they all look vaguely the same. I think I bought the right one for me, but I’ve got this lingering doubt that I chose poorly. Apparently this is a common reaction when given too many similar options to choose from.
I got myself a developer preview version of Mac OS X Lion. Poker Copilot works fully on Lion. There is a little bit of explaining to do about it, but for fear of breaching the Apple non-disclosure policy of unreleased products, I’ll not mention that for now. As soon as Lion is officially released, I’ll post some clarification notes.
It’s a sweet, sweet feeling. Occasionally a certain problem is reported. I’m never able to reproduce it or get enough information to find the cause. Then, after weeks, months, or even a year or two, I finally track it down.
Today I believe I’ve eliminated such a problem. Until today. It turns out that if you have some tournament summaries that Poker Copilot has not imported yet, but NO hand history files remaining to be imported AND you have no play money hands in your Poker Copilot database, then when you start up Poker Copilot, it will crash.
The fix for this will be in the next Poker Copilot update.
Read a review of Poker Copilot in Italian. I enjoy seeing the screenshots of Poker Copilot running in Italian. Thanks again to the volunteer translators.
