Author: Steven J. Brann
Date: 03:43:08 12/11/01
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On December 10, 2001 at 22:53:07, Michael Cummings wrote: >On December 10, 2001 at 11:07:58, John Merlino wrote: > >>On December 10, 2001 at 03:18:14, David Zheng wrote: >> >>>Hi everybody, >>> >>>I recently acquired Windows XP (Home Edition) on my computer and found it to be >>>incompatible with many of the old programs that used to be OK with Windows >>>98. Most annoying of all is that I can no longer run Chessmaster 7000. >>> >>>Even when I used the Program Compatibility Wizard to set the computer mode to >>>Windows 98, my Chessmaster 7000 still crashes every time when I use it. Like >>>all the Microsoft operating systems that I have experienced, they are extremely >>>unstable and buggy when they first came out. >>> >>>Does anyone here have a similar problem with Windows XP or happen to know how to >>>fix my problem? I have asked Microsoft twice about it but they did not bother >>>to give me a response. >>> >>>Anyone who has computer chess programs and is thinking about switching to >>>Windows XP, please be aware! >>> >>>Greetings. >>> >>> >>>David >> >>At what point does the program crash? What is the program doing when it crashes? >>Does it have several places where it can crash, or only one? >> >>jm > >Forget 7000, CM8K crashes during analysis of the oposition moves in 60% of the >time. > >I just took it as another program that Win XP does not like. > >Which means I have yet to be able to play a game, cause for every analysis there >seems to be a 50/50 chance of a crash. > >Move 4 on the oposition side is the furthest I got, before the program had to be >shut down. And 6 times required a reboot, which for XP, that reboot stuff from a >bad program is not suppose to happen anymore. > >Still works fine on win 98 for me. XP is crap for allot of my programs. > >Does it matter for CM7K, that program is old, I say tough, but fix CM8K, which >is current. I've had problems too. John recommended turning off the preference for spoken move announcements (which is the default when installed). That helped a lot. However, Thematic sounds don't work at all, so if I want sounds it's simple sounds or nothing. I still have an occasional crash and it seems to be coincident with the screen saver in XP. If it's running overnight and the screen saver is set to come on, inevitably it will crash. I just keep shipping the crash reports off to Bill Gates. If the screen saver is turned off, it's still running in the morning. This is circumstantial evidence of course, but something to look at. Setting the compatibility properties to Win98/Me for Chessmaster (right click the desktop icon) is another possibility although I haven't fooled with that yet. Good luck, Steve
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