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ChessBase 9 and Vista incompatible?



 
 
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Old November 27th 07, 02:59 AM posted to rec.games.chess.computer, rec.games.chess.misc
raylopez99
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Default ChessBase 9 and Vista incompatible?

I'm having problems running CB9 under Vista Ultimate 32 bit.

It was the only program of many that was flagged by the Vista
Installer as possibly incompatible, and, even when run under XP
emulation mode, the program is very slow.

Running under a top of the line E6550 core 2 duo chip.

Also the programmers of the "Big Database 2007" tried some tricks that
make it difficult to view the DVD under Vista's File Manager (it takes
forever)

FYI

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Old November 27th 07, 03:17 AM posted to rec.games.chess.computer, rec.games.chess.misc
raylopez99
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Default ChessBase 9 and Vista incompatible?

On Nov 26, 5:59 pm, raylopez99 wrote:
I'm having problems running CB9 under Vista Ultimate 32 bit.

It was the only program of many that was flagged by the Vista
Installer as possibly incompatible, and, even when run under XP
emulation mode, the program is very slow.

Running under a top of the line E6550 core 2 duo chip.

Also the programmers of the "Big Database 2007" tried some tricks that
make it difficult to view the DVD under Vista's File Manager (it takes
forever)

FYI


On top of that, the CB9 program has a bug in it, in that it treats
some games between two players as "duplicates" even if the games have
different moves. For example, the Big Database 2006 had many such
false positive duplicate games.

And to think I actually paid money for this. Never again.

RL

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Old November 27th 07, 03:59 AM posted to rec.games.chess.computer, rec.games.chess.misc
SBD
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Default ChessBase 9 and Vista incompatible?

I've been real disappointed in CB9. It can take 5-10 minutes to
generate the same opening report CB7 does in 30 seconds, I hate all
the icons, and it often slogs my computer down. It also oddly somehow
misses games.

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Old November 27th 07, 10:49 AM posted to rec.games.chess.computer, rec.games.chess.misc
raylopez99
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Default ChessBase 9 and Vista incompatible?

On Nov 26, 6:59 pm, SBD wrote:
I've been real disappointed in CB9. It can take 5-10 minutes to
generate the same opening report CB7 does in 30 seconds, I hate all
the icons, and it often slogs my computer down. It also oddly somehow
misses games.


Yeah, I agree. In fairness to the programmers, they like to do
"custom" stuff that is great for the time being, but doesn't stand the
test of time. I know a bit about programming since I hobby code. For
example, the CB9 has a feature where you can right click on the DVD
drive holding a database of games, and the database will automatically
be written to the hard drive. This worked great under XP, but when I
switched to Vista, this trick is broken--I could not even access the
BigDatabase2007 disc. Much more robust would have been to use the
standard Windows commands of "open" under a menu.

CB9 needs to become CB10 and be designed for Vista (I'm sure Chessbase
is working on it).


RL
 




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