Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:17:11 01/13/01
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On January 13, 2001 at 03:43:02, Lin Harper wrote: > I just bought a copy of chessmaster8000 today, out of curiosity > more than anything else. On the back of the package it says in the > minimum requirements: Pentium 2. 233mhz . My computer is a Cyrix > P150+, not too far short of the requirement, but short nonetheless. > The program will not load. It takes ages for anything to happen, then > it flicks through the legal stuff, then nothing for a while, then an > error message, telling me I should do a scandisk. I did that, and still > the same things happen again when I start from scratch. > I thought the program would load, and maybe play a little slower because > of the slow hardware. Are there any others out there who have CM8K loaded > and playing normally with slow machines? ie, is there something wrong with > mine? > Any help would be appreciated. I'm told I can take the program back if > it turns out it's no good to me without a hardware upgrade. What version of Windows are you running? Also, there is no "legal stuff" in the startup of the program; are you really talking about the installation program? Either way, there is nothing in OUR programs (installation or main program) that would suggest running scandisk, so this is a Windows error. What, exactly, does the error say? jm
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