Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 22:16:34 05/30/98
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On May 30, 1998 at 21:38:13, Miguel A. Guzman wrote: >I don't like to post a lot but, after all the hard time I've had, people >should know what they are getting in to. I jus got Fritz 5 and it >crashes on my system more than an airplane with no wings. Every crash is >on the Dibeng.dll file and aparently is centralized on the graphic >boards based on the nVidia Riva 128 chip. It can play but when you open >several of the menus, like change the engine; change your name and >others like that, Fritz crashes in a hart beat. I worked on it for about >3 hours trying to get all the features of the progran to work but no >such luck. If somebody out there has the same problem and found a way >aroud it please let me know. Untill ChessBase comes out with a patch for >this I'll be playing with Rebel 9, I hope, wich I've just ordered. Try to decrease the hardware acceleration of your graphics card (you get there through the control panel - display - settings- advanced properties, etc.) or switch to Super-VGA for a change Also don't have any external memory managers running. An old quote from Matthias "Fritz4, CB, Extreme Chess and Fritz5 all use a BitBlt routine to draw animated (sliding) pieces on the screen. Its a standard Windows API function. For reasons not clear to us from time to time new graphics cards with drivers fresh from the lab have problems with this. Maybe the routine is rarely used nowadays (Its from the 16Bit GDI and other games work with 32Bit DirectX). A bad case was when the Matrox Millenium got published about two years ago. Matrox fixed the driver after a short time and everything was fine since then. - What happens: You get weird colors, vanishing pieces, irregular crashes or you might even not be able to start the program at all. - How to fix it: a) To confirm for yourself that the problem lies in the graphics driver, please install the standard Windows "Super-VGA" driver (control panel - display, etc). b) This will most likely cure the problem. Then go back to the original driver and try to reduce the "hardware acceleration" parameter (control panel - system - performance - graphics). This solves it for 80% of the users. Somebody once reported that his graphics driver had an option "Bitmap caching". When he disabled this, everything was fine. The best way is to get a new set of drivers from the manufacturer."
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