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Subject: Re: Millennium Package and NT

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 00:25:12 12/07/99

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On December 06, 1999 at 14:42:54, Steve Coladonato wrote:

>On December 06, 1999 at 13:46:18, Laurence Chen wrote:
>
>>On December 06, 1999 at 12:50:01, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>>
>>>I have recently received the Millennium upgrade and everything is fine with
>>>Shredder 4.  However, ChessGenius does not start.  It brings up a window that
>>>essentially is framed out but nothing is displayed in the frames except what's
>>>currently on the Desktop.  The Nsetup.exe for Nimzo 2000 won't run at all either
>>>by clicking on it or bringing up a DOS window and typing in the command.
>>>
>>>I'm running NT4 SP3 with 1024x768 resolution on a Micron Pentium Pro.  Has
>>>anybody experienced similar problems?  I haven't contacted Computerchess yet but
>>> plan on doing so later this week.
>>>
>>>Steve
>>Try upgrading to NT SP5, don't use NT SP6, it has too many bugs.
>
>I will be doing that shortly.  I have requested SP5 because, as you mentioned,
>SP6 did have a problem and there is an SP6a available already.
>
>I don't think the application of the SP will change anything though as
>ChessGenius and Nimzo are really DOS programs and I have consistently had
>problems with running anything that is DOS based on my machine.
>
>Thanks for the response and I'll let you know if it does work.
>
>Steve

Shredder4, Nimzo2000 and Genius 6.5 are all Win32 applications, not DOS
programs. On my machine with NT and SP4 everything works fine.

Stefan



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