Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 03:22:51 03/13/03
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On March 12, 2003 at 22:50:36, Mike S. wrote: >On March 12, 2003 at 19:29:13, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>(...) >>ChessBase did always progress with its programs so that the users were forced >>[!] to buy new hardware because with older material you couldn't do this or >>that. The last coup was the 3D board. > >During installation, you can choose if you want to install those 3D components >or not, if you make a "user defined" installation (which is always preferable >IMO). Clever Mike! Yes, you buy a software and only later you discover that you can't use the most beautiful feature because you don't have a certain graphic card in your Notebook, duh! And NOTHING, spin doctor, is written outside on the cover that you must have XRocketLaunchPRO. Please don't confuse the topic. Thank you. > >>Honestly I feel deceived by ChessBase. >>Because I only read 3D, realistic and so on. But NEVER did they inform correctly >>that you should have this or that graphics. Nowhere! > >On the Shredder 7.SE package for example, the following graphics requirements >are given (I translate): "...For the 3D board and the detailled globe: graphic >card which supports DirectX 8.1" Yes, that might be but we were talking about Fritz, which is a different name than Shredder. > >>Conclusion? Ok, I have no proof, but it seems clear that already then ChessBase >>got support by the Hardware industry. You must consider that ChessBase is >>monopolist. They define the state of the art. > >They can't influence computer graphics standards, Clever Mike again! Spreading confusion. I said that the defined state of the art for chess related tools. Now hardware development brings XXX and that no user has. Now ChessBase develops a new software. They do advertisement. But they NEVER say "users pay attention, the new feature is ONLY available if you also buy a new machine...". And this is fraud. NB I do not speak about the technology insiders who are informed enough to know that a certain feature needed by definition a certain defined hardware. But I am a technology amateur and I am someone who were intentiously deceived because I thought I had the necessary "hardware" feature in my software, yes. I simply confused my existing program *ActiveX* with the necessary graphics card *DirectX*. And I think that I am NOT an extreme outsider among the users. Spin doctor! > with 0.0x % of the games >market :o) DirectX graphics are mainly required for various best selling 3D >computer games with fast (and nowadays nearly movie-like) realistic 3D >environments rendered in realtime. This is where the *really* big money is in >the games market, like id, epic, electronic arts and other software companies, >and of course the graphics hardware companies, currently ATI (Radeon) and Nvidia >(GeForce) being the most important. > >I think (?) the standard Windows applications like Office, 2D chess graphics >etc. are done using the direct draw libraries. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl Thanks anyway for the technological support. You demonstrate very good what engeneers will never understand! Because you always learned routines to solve problems. How problems start, why they exist, what makes people so confused when such problems arise - all this is beyond your mind. And you are one of those who is really very communicative! That was always the good side of our conversation! No irony intended. Thanks so far. Rolf Tueschen
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