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Subject: Re: Fritz 8 + Windows ME + Kazaa/Outlook Express problem

Author: Geert van der Wulp

Date: 00:57:17 06/18/04

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On June 18, 2004 at 03:45:47, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On June 18, 2004 at 02:56:26, Geert van der Wulp wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I was wondering if any of you have had problems with Fritz 8 playing on their
>>network. When I am using Kazaa Lite, or Outlook Express, then it often happens
>>that when I am playing on the playchess server, that suddenly my Fritz crashes.
>>Two things can happen:
>>
>>1)The board disappears, or some chesspieces disappear. Or when they are moved
>>they "leave a trace".
>>
>>2)All the letter fonts in the program change from nice into ugly fat fonts, and
>>somewhat later Fritz will not respond any more.
>>
>>Anyone??
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Geert
>
>I can't imagine that Kazaa Lite or Outlook cause these problems. Do you have the
>latest GUI-Update from the playchess server? You can check for it and install
>it, perhaps that will solve your problem. Another try is to deinstall Fritz
>completely and than reinstall it. If all fails I would contact chessbase.
>
>regards Joachim

Yes, I have run the updates. I think it has something to do with the fonts that
Outlook Express and Kazaa Lite use. This does not mean that it is a Chessbase
bug, but more likely a Windows ME bug.

Geert



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