What's New: New Features in Version 12.x of Prime95
NEW FEATURES IN VERSION 12.x of PRIME95.EXE
New Features in Version 12.4 of Prime95
A minor bug in the Pentium factoring code has been fixed.
When creating an intermediate file, instead of deleting the previous intermediate
file it is renamed just in case there is a machine crash before the new intermediate
file is written to disk.
Factoring is now 6% faster.
The program is now "network-enabled". See network.txt for more details.
A bug in stopping and continuing when factoring in Version 8 has been fixed.
New Features in Version 12.3 of Prime95
The -h command line argument is now available.
Save files are generated every half-hour when factoring.
New features in Version 12.2 of Prime95
A minor bug in the factoring code has been fixed.
New features in Version 12.1 of Prime95
Command line arguments are now available to help you run the program on your
co-worker's machines!
New features in Version 12 of Prime95
The program is faster! Expect to see improvements of 8 to 15%. The faster
your CPU, the more improvement you should notice. The program also uses less memory.
There are now 5 separate hour-long self tests - one for each possible FFT
length. You will run one of the new one-hour self tests even if you passed the
self test in the previous version.
The program can now test exponents as high as 2,630,000!
The user interface has changed.
You no longer enter a 3 or 4 digit range. Rather you enter an explicit starting
and stopping point. For example, in the previous version you would enter 1234
for the range. In this version you enter a starting point of 1234000 and an
ending point of 1234999. This makes it much easier to "check out" just part
of a range. It also makes it easier to split a range among two or more machines.
The "Only Find Factors" checkbox has been replaced. Use the Range / Factor
menu choice instead.
The Range / Double Check menu choice has been added for those of you who
are double checking previously checked exponents.
The Advanced / Password menu choice is now used to activate the rest of
the Advanced menu.
The program now performs two new error checks every iteration! These will
help guard against memory errors or "cosmic ray" errors. These new checks will
not catch all such problems but should catch the vast majority.