Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:10:07 03/09/01
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On March 09, 2001 at 13:55:05, Rich Van Gaasbeck wrote: >I was considering buying Fritz (and I probably will later for myself). I bought >a copy of Chess Master 7000 for my older son for the personalities, tutorials, >kids room, etc instead. We all enjoy using it, including my younger son, who >played a four bishops ending against the monkey. > >There is supposed to be a few video segments, including an intro at startup. >I've never seen them. I'm sure I'm not missing anything essential, but I'd >still like to see them. Something I read (the readme.txt?) said that the game >won't attempt to play the video if my system is not fast enough. I suppose >that's possible, but it has an 200MHz Overdrive, a fast voodoo card and 4x >cdrom. Is there a way I can force it? There must be an ini file setting or >registry entry somewhere telling it not to try the video. > >It is possible that I did somthing wrong during install. I chose typical with >the database remaining on CD. Also I told it not to try to install directX 6.1 >as I have 6.2 already and I don't want to take the chance that it would install >an older version (as some early games have). Also during quicktime installation >I didn't tell it to support multiple streams. > >I installed the lastest CM7000 patch as of last week (something .6?). > >Rich You don't mention exactly what your processor is, but I suspect if you have a 4X CD drive, and the CPU is from the same time period, then your CPU is not fast enough to play the videos. There IS a way to force the videos to NOT play, but no way to force the videos TO play -- at least, not within the CM7000 program. However, they are simply Quicktime movie files that should be able to play for you without any problem if you have Quicktime installed on your machine (which CM7000 WILL install for you by default). Just double-click on them in Windows Explorer, and the Quicktime movie player should automatically play them. jm
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