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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