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Subject: Re: CM8000 problems with XP. Look at this, John Merlino

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 13:01:23 11/28/01

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On November 28, 2001 at 15:39:11, John Merlino wrote:

>On November 28, 2001 at 15:22:57, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>John:
>>I have recently changed the way XP operates. First It was setted to use fat 32
>>setting, now I have setted it to use NTSF kind of Hd use of files. With this
>>one, tournament option does not work. "Game room" does. You cannot get the
>>pieces to move with the tourn option. I mean, the mouse cannot grasp the pieces
>>to move them. Have you seen this already? Or it is some specific problem with my
>>PC? Note that I am, not certain it does not happens the same with fat32 seetting
>>as much I did not play CM with in tourn modality to test.
>>fernando
>
>Nobody else has reported this problem, and I can't imagine how changing the
>format of your hard drive would cause the mouse to be non-responsive (and
>especially only in certain rooms).
>
>Try this:
>
>Create a Rated Game in the tournament room and pick any opponent OTHER than
>Chessmaster. When the game starts, who is your opponent? Are you able to make a
>move? Try it with you playing both White and Black -- if your opponent is White,
>does he make the first move?
>
>jm

This can be the case sometimes the file of the mouse get corupted with a full
harddisk too.
And not only in chessmaster but also in Windows!



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