Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 00:08:22 11/07/01
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On November 07, 2001 at 02:59:29, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On November 06, 2001 at 17:07:57, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > >>On November 05, 2001 at 11:56:41, John Merlino wrote: >> You cannot run the >>>installation program with VMWARE (and several developer-type programs, such as >>>MSVC) running. >>> >>>If you can, just disable VMWARE for the installation. After that, you can run >>>the program just fine even with VMWARE running. >> >>Sigh, well, thanks for confirming it. Since Windows 98 is running under VMWare, >>I can't disable VMware without losing the OS. >> >>Dang, I sure wish I knew why CM8k works on some Win2k installations but not >>others; if there was anything I could tweak...running Windows XP is not an >>option for me at this time. CM7000 *won't* work on Win2k, right? >> > >When you say tournament, do you mean playing in a tournament or just play a >rated game in the tournament room? >I tested the later on a W2K laptop with the personality Ben and it sure played >like a beginner. >I have upgradet W2K with the service pack 2. > >There is a trick in this service pack to let a program belive that you are >running Win95. Have tried this? >You can read about the trick here: >http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q279/7/92.ASP > I tested this with the Chessmaster and the intro movie hung under startup. I had too stop the CMMovie.exe program in program manager to get it to proceed. To get rid of this you could rename the into movie (cm8intro.bik) so that it would not play an intro on startup. Ben was playing like a beginner both before and after this so I don't know if it help's for your problem. Odd Gunnar >Odd Gunnar
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