Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:44:43 10/27/01
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On October 26, 2001 at 19:20:47, Fernando Villegas wrote: >I all: >A couple of days ago I wrote a list of some programs that does work and those >that does not in XP environment. No reply appeared, so I ms asume I left all >people in amazement, frozen in awe so nobody could write a word. >Well, I like that. Kind of an exercize in humility. So here goes the second one >about XP perfomance. I have been using it intensively for 5 days and this is it: >Pros: >It has not hang at all >It has not frozen until now >No blue screen >My internet connection -by now a simple Dial-Up one- is running two or three >times faster. >Fritz 6 went from around 390 Knodes to near 500 in the same 500 Mhz AMD-K6 where >I runned Windows Me. Maybe I did a bad measurement before? >Faster loading of all programs, including itself. >Far prettier interface. >Cons: >It is not very friendly with AMd cards, but, although putting an unhappy face, >it has worked with every driver on the integrateded card I use. Until now... >Some chess programs definitively does not run: the worst case is century and to >my chagrin as it is one of my favourites. >Until now is not easy to find an AV program that is compatible. I found one that >is more or less so, Panda Platinum, but still give me some reports of >malfuntioning. But I have not tested NT AV's. Maybe they fits better. >Now, say something... >Fernando As long as Chessmaster 8000 runs well on XP, I'm happy. That means that we should have little to no problems making the next version fully compatible with XP (which, of course, we HAVE to do). I was very concerned about the seemingly random problems that CM8000 had on Windows 2000 and NT: -- Some users had absolutely no problems, and other users couldn't even run the program. -- Some users reported problems with menus not drawing properly, others did not. -- Some users reported that no matter who you tried to play a rated game against, you got Chessmaster as your opponent -- other users had no problems. -- Some users couldn't get past the sound card requirement (even though they had a sound card), and others could not. And, of course, all of these could be directly traced to Windows 2000/NT. This was making me dread how well CM8000 would work on XP. Thankfully, by all accounts (which, admittedly, is still less than a dozen), there are no problems. However, I STILL hate the fact that you can't install it on more than one machine. And if you want to have ANY "fully-compliant" XP program on more than one computer you have to buy two copies of it. At least, that's what I've heard, but the only programs that I've actually been told enforce this requirement are Microsoft programs (such as Office XP). There.... I said something.... ;-) jm
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