Author: pavel
Date: 09:17:41 02/21/05
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On February 21, 2005 at 11:49:29, Mike Byrne wrote: >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 Imagine all the SETI crunching you can do with this babe. :) You have an awesome system. I wish I had one. The price tag doesn't seem so bad (1500$ right?), but it has to be custom built with that price tag; which I can't do. :( pavs
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