I have discovered that Fritz 8 has some severe compatibility issues with MS Vista 32 bit home premium version. Only default graphics work in 2d and other sets or graphics simply don't work. Also the system temporarily froze while calculating (including mouse cursor) a move. This eventually righted itself, but to avoid any hard lock-ups (which vista isn't supposed to allow or so it's been said!) I deinstalled fritz.
The chess base web site claims fritz 10 is vista compatible, but I'm not very happy with fritz right now because of their poor and cumbersome means of getting updates. I found that when my login expired I couldn't check for updates despite having a perfectly valid copy of the game.
Are any other decent chess programs out there (that allow for easy patches) working well in Vista?
Originally posted by GreenheartChessmaster 10 is older than Fritz8 and is definitely not gona work. Some users have reported that F10 works on Vista so I cannot see why it does not work for you.
bought a laptop preloaded with Vista.. Like to play chess while "on the road" - hence need chess program.
Has anyone tried Chessmaster 10 on Vista? I couldn't even get 9 to install, and if 10 works it's probably worth the 19.99 cost.
Originally posted by PsychoPawnWhy? Now that I'm accustomed to it I'd keep Vista JUST for the GUI.
Downgrade to XP 🙂
Seriously, I'm considering doing that myself.
I didn't find that many compatibility issues, and everything seems to be running smoother than it did on XP.
Originally posted by AkashicWell, the GUI is nice, but that's it.
Why? Now that I'm accustomed to it I'd keep Vista JUST for the GUI.
I didn't find that many compatibility issues, and everything seems to be running smoother than it did on XP.
The UAC "feature" appears to have been designed by an idiot, but it's more likely that one idiot wouldn't have enough collective stupidity to design it.
iTunes runs like frozen molasses.
Visual Studio runs slower than on a comparable system with XP.
Vista just isn't very impressive of an upgrade.
To all who are bagging out Vista - It's just XP, but the interface is simplified, and they added some fancy new bits of graphical magic. I had to try to make it crash. I haven't had any problems with anything yet at all. Of course, I don't have Fritz or Chessmaster, I don't do the whole gaming thing, and the way I managed to crash Vista was when I was running software to screw around with vcore voltages and clock speeds. Vista doesn't like that.