Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:46:10 02/02/01
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On February 02, 2001 at 06:19:12, Lin Harper wrote: > Last week I bought a copy of Chessmaster8000 and installed it on my > older machine, a Cyrix P150. It would'nt start. I put the CD in the drive > and clicked on "Run", then the CM8000 startup graphic and an empty window > appeared, along with an hour glass, and the computer froze. The hour glass > could still be moved with the mouse. > It happened that I was upgrading this week, so I thought I would'nt > worry about it, the new machine would run it, no problems. > The new machine is a Pentium 4, 1.3 gHz, 128 mb RD Ram. A powerful > unit. I installed CM8K and when I tried to run it, exactly the same > thing happened. Has anyone else had the same, or similar problem? > If so, what can I do about it? Any help would be appreciated. > I'm wondering if I got a bad disk. While your processor is WAY below the minimum spec of a PII-233, the program SHOULD still, at least, start. You won't be happy with the performance on that machine, however. As for your P4, since the same problem is happening, I'm almost certain that this is a sound card issue (or, as another user posted, possibly a LACK OF sound card issue). Chessmaster requires some kind of sound-playing device. There are other hardware configurations and settings that can also cause Chessmaster to fail to start. I should also mention here that the patch will actually INFORM the user that sound failed to initialize, rather than merely (and rudely) hanging. Voice modems can cause problems. Unfortunately, each modem is different, so there isn't anything generic I can say other than possibly fiddling with your sound card's settings until something works. There will also be a special debugging INI setting that will allow users to start up Chessmaster. jm
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