Author: Mike S.
Date: 19:34:22 04/12/02
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On April 12, 2002 at 21:54:28, James T. Walker wrote: >(...) >I sent an email to CB concerning Fritz 5.32 GUI problem. Never fixed it. I >recently sent an email to CB listing 9 problems I found with Fritz 7 GUI. It's >only 9 because I only tried to use it for about 30 minutes and gave up. To date >they have not fixed one problem with Fritz 7 GUI. They seem only interested in >the "server"side of the GUI which I really don't care too much about. It is true that there were many problems in the first release (not in the first english release), but they were fixed with the November update IIRC. I think one or two bugs remained (I functions I don't use), and the engine's castling problem, and those were fixed with the update which introduced the UCI support also. Maybe it's OS dependant too... I use Win98 and WinME. I don't notice a GUI bug currently - but I don't make intensive use of all the more complex features though. I can imagine that some reasons for problems could also be external, i.e. corrupted databases, wrong system DLL version or the like. >Of course >since Shredder 6 is in the same package it has the same problems. With both >GUI's loaded on my computer they seem to get tangled up with each other and >Fritz now thinks it's Shredder. I think I can at least help on this particular issue (meanwhile, I've given the tip about a dozen times I think): The GUIs of Fritz 7 and Shredder 6 are identical (ChessProgram7.exe). It's not necessary to keep both GUIs. I'm not sure, but I assume two installations of it will affect each other via the INI files and/or the registry, which has confused a lot of people. It's like installing the same program twice, into different directories. Look into "Tools/Options, Version". There, you can choose if the GUI "is" Fritz 7, Shredder 6 (or Hiarcs 8 if you have the recent update). The main effect of that setting is, which speedmark will be calculated, if you have the engines each of course. I suggest to backup the engines from the engine directory (and other version specific files, like books etc.; I don't know what is uninstalled and what is kept), and uninstall one of the two installations. The engine can be chosen with the F3 Load Engine dialogue anyway, so there's no need to have that GUI more than once. That also saves hd space. Regards, M.Scheidl
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