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Subject: Re: Chessmaster and Windows XP/ME/NT/2000

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 09:13:43 01/11/02

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cm 5000 works fine on win xp. u have to run it under a win 98 environment

rajen
On January 10, 2002 at 21:15:28, John Merlino wrote:

>The following text is going to be put up on the Chessmaster website some time
>soon. But, I figured you guys might want to see it also:
>
>---------------
>For users of Windows XP/ME/2000/NT
>
>Currently, there is no version of Chessmaster that officially supports Windows
>XP/ME/2000/NT. If you are running:
>
>Windows XP -- Chessmaster 8000, by almost all user accounts, runs without any
>significant problems on XP. There have been only a very few major bug reports
>regarding Chessmaster 8000 by XP users, and it is not yet known if these bugs
>can be directly linked to XP. Microsoft states on their XP compatibility webpage
>that both Chessmaster 8000 and Chessmaster 7000 are "compatible with XP".
>However, neither product has been fully tested on Windows XP by Ubi Soft's
>Quality Assurance Department.
>
>Windows ME -- Chessmaster 8000 should work fine on Windows ME. It is also
>believed, although not fully tested, that Chessmaster 7000 will also work well
>on ME. No other version of Chessmaster is believed to work properly on Windows
>ME.
>
>Windows 2000/NT -- No version of Chessmaster is likely to work properly on
>Windows 2000 or Windows NT. A small percentage of users have reported that
>Chessmaster 8000 works without any significant problems on these versions of
>Windows, but most users have reported major problems. It is Ubi Soft's general
>policy that none of their games are likely to support Windows 2000/NT, as these
>are "business" platforms rather than "gaming" platforms.
>
>At this time, there are no plans to make any currently available version of
>Chessmaster (8000 or previous) officially support any of the above versions of
>Windows.
>
>The next version of Chessmaster (due to be released around June of 2002) will
>support Windows XP/ME/98/95. There are no plans to make the next version of
>Chessmaster support Windows 2000/NT.
>
>We apologize to any of our users who have recently upgraded their version of
>Windows and find that their Chessmaster software no longer works properly.
>---------------
>
>jm



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