Author: Matthew Friend
Date: 18:38:55 02/13/01
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On February 13, 2001 at 21:11:18, William Penn wrote: >After applying the patch, the custom chessboard won't work properly anymore. >Note that I only use the 2D custom board with the figurine chess pieces in the >Game Room. > >When attempting to load a layout which I had setup and saved before applying the >patch, it showed multiple overlapped custom chessboards (a mess) without any >chess pieces. While playing around with it, trying to restore the custom board >and pieces, trying to redefine the setup, trying to save and load the layout >from disk, etc., I either get a fatal system error message: > >"Chessmaster caused an invalid page fault in module ANIM8.DLL at..." > >or > >when CM is started-up initially, or the layout is loaded from disk, the custom >chessboard is empty (no chess pieces). > >I wondered if the patch had downloaded properly. My first patch download gave >cm8k101.exe, 618,925 bytes. So I redownloaded the patch to see if the number of >bytes was the same. It's the same. > >So, I suppose I'll have to uninstall/reinstall CM8k then apply the patch again. >That should indicate whether there was some kind of anamolous corruption of my >original CM8k installation that's causing the problem. I'll report back later... > >WP Hi William: I experienced the same problem. I e-mailed chessmaster and got the response below from them. It works ok with the patch...only if the custom board is NOT selected. Here is the e-mail they sent back: Found and fixed. Because of the snafu with the patch, there is going to be a new US version of the patch released at the same time as the European version, and both of them will be v1.0.2. Therefore, this bug fix will be in that patch. Hopefully, it will be released in a couple of weeks. Until then, just stay away from the Custom Board and everything should be fine. Sorry about that, cm -----Original Message----- From: Matthew [mailto:TheLordForgives@msn.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 3:21 PM To: chessmaster@learningco.com Subject: bug in chessmaster 8000 patch >>>Dear Sir or Madam: I wanted to make you aware of what I believe to be a bug. Situation: I installed cm 8000, and downloaded the patch. I installed the patch and ran it. Everything went well. Then I went through and made a "custom" board for each room (classroom, gameroom, and library). The custom board was enlarged and green/off white with figurine pieces. After changing each room, and saving the layouts, everytime I clicked on a room that I had already "changed" it would crash. It seems there was a problem somewhere with being able to load the new layouts. To fix it: I unistalled cm 8000 and deleted the folder left behind. Then I reinstalled it. Next I changed each rooms configuration to how I wanted it (with custom board and figurine pieces). This time I DID NOT apply the patch. I had no problems opening the rooms with the new configurations now. Next I copied the chessmaster.exe file to a save place. Then I applied the patch. When I attempted to open the program it opened the "custom" board, but it looked like it was "smeared" taking up the whole screen. (It didn't crash each time like it did the first time, but was totally unusuable). I then copied the chessmaster.exe file that had not been patched back into the cm 8000 folder. It worked fine. ---The problem only appears after the patch is applied (yes I have the american editon of cm 8000). ---The problem only affects it seems the "custom" board. When I use one of the "premade" boards included (Large 2d maple board with figurine piece set) it works fine. ---The problem appeared using both a typical install and a full install My System info: Gateway 433 mz celeron proc. 128 megs ram 16 megs Voodoo 3 3000 card Windows 2000 Pro. sp1 I would like to say thankyou very much for fixing the other bugs, especially the Openings practice bug. You guys/gals do great work. I love Chessmaster. Take care. If I can be of any further help just let me know. Sincerely Matthew<<<<<<<
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