Author: Tanya Deborah
Date: 17:50:23 11/04/01
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On November 04, 2001 at 11:20:44, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Tanya, > >>> I can load both the Fritz 7 (Standard) engine and the NoMMX-engine into >>> Hiarcs 7.32, which is basically the same GUI. Do you have updated your Fritz >>> 5.32-GUI? > >>> Maybe it's an MMX related problem. Have you been able to use the Fritz 7 >>> engine in another GUI on the same computer? > >>> It should work if the CPU has MMX (only very old CPUs don't). > >> My computer is AMD K7- 800 MHZ. I think that it should work under Fritz 5.32 >> Gui. >> In Hiarcs7.32 Gui, i have the same problem... I cant load Fritz 7... :( >> Too, i dont have the Fritz 5.32 upgrade. Do you recomend me to download??? > >strongly recommanded... It solves many bugs and afaik there were some changes to >the engine-system, might be the reason why it does not work on your comp. > >> What do you mean with NoMMX engine?? and Standard engine? Could you please >> explain me??? > >Shipped with Fritz 7 are 2 Fritz-Engines which both are put in the engines >folder of the chessbase-directory. Ones name is "Fritz 7.eng" (430.080 Bytes) >the other one calls "Fritz 7 (NoMMX).eng" (364.544 Bytes). When you start Fritz >7 GUI, it shows you only one of those engines - the one which chessbase thought >its best for your comp. Under older Fritz GUIs (6,5.32) you can use both engines >and so far it is unclear which one is the better one against comps, there are >different results. Most call the "Fritz 7.eng" the standard-engine... simply >because it is loaded on most comps. Besides, when installing Fritz 7 on an old >comp without MMX, it was reported that neither of those engines is shown and you >can't load any of it. But it seems that you can load the NoMMX under different >GUI like Fritz 6, 5.32 - seems someone felt asleep in the endcontrol of the >product... :) But I am sure there will be soon some nice bugfixes and everything >is all right - we know that from Fritz 5,6 etc. - also ChessMaster is not >unknown for beta-releases in the first versions... >I think this is caused by time presure on the company's - maybe Eidos pushed so >much pressure on ChessBase that they didn't have enough time to test everything >carefully enough. Same to ChessMaster and Ubi-Soft, in my opinion, the game >company's like Eidos & Ubi-Soft are much stricter with deadlines etc... (And we >know this from other sectors - especially game-software is in first version VERY >beta... and that seems to happen now also in the chess software when the company >is related to a big game company - so far only those software packages have >those big problems, Rebel, ChessAssistant and former Shredder releases under the >Millenium flag were definitely more bug free - I hope in case of Shredder GUI >this will stay as it is...) > >Greets, Thomas Hello Tomas!! Thank you very much for your information! My best regards! Tanya Deborah
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