Author: Mike S.
Date: 03:52:41 03/13/03
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On March 13, 2003 at 06:22:51, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >(...) 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. I had many problems of that type in the early PC times (and even before), when standardization of various hard- and software components was much less good than it's now. Win95- brought improvements, because software applications can use standard windwos libraries now (instead of their own specific hardware access each), and the connection hardware<->Windows is now an issue the hardware developers, like graphic card manufacturers, must solve themselves. But of course, there are many updates of the required drivers all the time... Btw. if you don't have a *very* old graphic card, it is possible that it is able to support DirectX 8.1. Maybe you just have to update the drivers (take a look at the manufacturer's website), and install the DirectX 8.1 software itself which can be found on many computer magazine CDs (or on the Microsoft website, if your connection is fast enough). I'm not sure at the moment if you would have to install DirectX first and then update graphics drivers, or vice versa. Furthermore, if you don't need high speed graphics, there are new one's which are not expensive and will support DirectX 8.1 (that version is quite old by now). But it's true that is is unusual for a chess program, that it has high performance graphics requirements. (I didn't even take a look at the requirements, because I don't consider using a virtual 3D board anyway... also, my free harddisk space is low.) Regards, Mike Scheidl
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