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Subject: Re: NO YOU DON'T need DirectX to run Fritz8 !!

Author: Brian Katz

Date: 16:18:28 12/28/03

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On December 28, 2003 at 18:48:27, Brian Katz wrote:

>On December 28, 2003 at 00:57:08, Patrik wrote:
>
>>I am just wondering if Fritz8 used DirectX for it's graphic.
>>
>>Thanks.
>
>Hello
>
>No. You do not need DirectX to run Fritz 8 but you need it to run the True 3D,
>which by the way now shows as 3D...under the view menu after the recent
>upgrades. That is by the way for the Photo Realistic 3D chessboard.
>
>I am running the Fritz 8 program on two computers. One being an AMD Athlon XP
>2600+ 1 GIG DDR SDRAM and using DirectX with full use of the True 3D Graphics.
>On my older computer which is only a Pentium II 350 MHz with 384 SDRAM, the
>setup would not allow me to load the DirectX. Nevertheless, I completed the
>setup.
>To the best of my knowledge, the only function that I do not have without
>DirectX, is the True 3D capabilities. Everything else seems to work just fine. I
>have not yet encountered problems of any kind.
>So once again, you do not need DirectX to run Fritz 8. You just will not have
>use of the True 3D function.
>Regards
>Brian



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