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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