Author: Keith Kitson
Date: 09:56:37 08/05/99
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On August 05, 1999 at 10:59:15, Zachariah Amela wrote: >On August 05, 1999 at 10:48:04, paul bedrey wrote: > >>I'm curious, has anyone been able to run ANY chess software in Windows 98? >>I've tried Fritz and Rebel with no luck. I believe it to be an incapability >>between the chess software and Microsoft's DirectX. Any suggestions?? > >My only suggestion would be to dump Win98. Seriously, it's bloat-ware to the >extreme. WinNT is much faster and stable. Heck, even Win95 is faster. Before you dump Win98 in favour of NT, take into account that Rebel will not run on NT4. Ed Schroeder will not support it at present on NT4. All of the legally written 16 bit software that uses API calls rather than direct memory/peripheral access will work with NT4 but if illegally written you're wasting your time with NT. NT also has a larger overhead on memory. With just the operating system running and no applications 17Mb is spoken for. NT is resource hungry. I have had no problems with Win98, having upgraded it from Win95. All chess programs I have will run on Win98, no problems ( and there are very few i don't have!). Also don't forget under NT4 if you have Hiarcs7 you cannot switch in large hash ram. there is no way to kick off a DOS only session without the windows overhead. My advice is to persevere with Win98, at least until Rebel is windows compatible. If you do decide to upgrade to NT4 make sure your machine is man enough to take it. I don't think 64Mb is sufficient. A minimum of 128/256Mb ram is required to get large hash tables on the Chessbase or Genius suites of programs. The absence of large hash ram with some programs weakens them considerably. Hope this helps. > >As to those apps not working? I really don't know. I haven't heard of anyone >having that kind of trouble. > >Take care.
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