Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 08:49:29 02/21/05
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On February 21, 2005 at 11:27:14, Jasmine Baer wrote: >Do I need a 64-bit OS to run Crafty64, or is a AMD 64 CPU enough? > >I'm lost about this stuff, so please forgive me. I believe, this particular version needs OS to be 64 bit for it to run. I could send you a verision for 64 bit and one that runs on both 64 and 32 bit OS. Email me if interested (this offer is good for anybody - place the word crafty64 in the subject heading). If you run 64 bit, opening book will have to be recreated in 64 bit mode. The 32 bit opening books will not work. Win XP 64 beta is available for free to download. It expires after one year. It appears to be very a stable OS (no OS crashes at all), the main drawbacks are the lack of 56K modem and SATA drivers. IDE drives, CD-ROM/CD-RW,Cd=DVD Drives, FloppyVIDEO, Printer and LAN drivers for the most past are available. I have a 128MB ATI Video Card that runs fine. Most of the 32bit program run fine. Those that use 16 bit intstall programs do notinstall (Winboard/Classic Genius are two programs that do not install. There is a 64 Winboard compillation available but it does not come with everything. Specificallly you willneed to copy timestamp or timeseal from the 32 bit version if you want thise ICS helpers.) Shredder (Fritz version), and Chessbase install work fine. Shredder 8 does about 950K nps in threads=2 mode. I suspect the vast majority of the 32 bit programs that use 32 bit intstallers will work fine. I have't tried Chessmaster yet, that could could be a problem since that program always burped with certian video cards etc, even with similiar but different 32 bit flavors of Windows OS, who knows if it will like the 54 bit video drivers. It is not high on my list to install anyway. Best, Michael
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