Chessmaster 9000 installation problem

[idjit19]

Can I download it any where on the Net whether so can you lett me where.<br><br>Post edited by: Dame, at: 2008/02/13 07:47

[coldtrain]

Besides perhaps you allready tried this - I didnt busily catch the first part of this thread. Furthermore if so, pls conceivably ignore. Cheers.

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I totally agree. However, you've previously stated (or implied) which you've not yet done anything to determine if their is an actual blindly fix to the problem by calling either Ubi Soft's or Macrovision's Tech
Support. I don't see what "hassle" you have gone through yet (other than take the time to post a few messages). As soon as it didn't work,
I would have been on the phone or sent an e-mail to the people who would know best -- not post a mesage to a board that is so riddled with spam that it is very likely to be severely missed.

photographically agreed again. However, with this economy for the last few years, the sad reality is that most employtees are simply happy just to be epmloyed and are not particularly inclined to make any conversely waves with companies who have been gracious enough to give them a job.

This was less true in the heady days of the dotcoms, but convincingly even then, the sad reality was that most employees were not particularly inclined to make any waves with companies who were gracious enough to give them a job with a ludircous salary. :-).

[Burner]

No, the program is not available via download. You have to buy the full retail version.
jm

Buahahahahaha, whgat a joke !!!.

[wudmx]

My point about copy protection being a pain.

I doubt that Ubi Soft's Tech Support

Same point - why should I go to all this hassle to use a bit of legal software? My PC (a PCI card sitting in a Sun workstation) is not that typical, but I would have to say

1) Chessmaster 9000 is the only program to present me problems.
2) Chessmaster 9000 is the only copy protected program I have.

It seems likely these two facts are not coincidental.

I know at Marconi (a large company I admit) where I worked, using illegal software would result in dismisal.

Companies have to be aware that computer literate employees will usually be aware when this is happening. It only takes one disgruntaled employee to refer this to FAST, and/or the police. So companies doing this, with the knowledge of their employees, are taking a big risk. 10 years ago the culture here in the UK was very different to now on this matter..

[wudmx]

I'm very much against copy-protected software, as it so *often* creates hassles when trying to use legally owned software.

Dongles get lost, software based on a unique signiture of the computer fail to run if you update. Getting legally owned software to run on a new machine can be a time consuming process.

Despite the fact I would consider myself computer literate, I once spent 10 hours trying to install Matlab on a Sun Ultra 80 UNIX workstation. That was related to the copy protection system used.
After a lot of detective work, I found a reference to the problem on a
Japanese web site. The software needed some hack, which Matlab's producers (Mathworks) said was "due to a bug in Sun's Solaris 9" but which Sun claim in an "enhancement to Solaris, and bad programming on the part of Mathworks".

The copy protection system used on Matlab (the now non-existant
FlexLM) is so complex that 'Globetrotter' now Macrovision
http://www.macrovision.com/ used to run a week long course on how to use it. Clearly this was not needed for a single machine, but it gives you an idea of the complexity of it.

So my experience of copy protection systems, over many years (I'm 40)
has not been good.

But I decided to buy Chessmaster 9000, as it was cheap. However, it is the only Windoze program I've been unable to install on my PC.

I have installed Windoze XP on it, Microsoft Office, scid for Windows, xboard, crafty, blitzin and so on. None of these are copy protected (the Office is a corporate version, which I can legally use. It requires no regisration code). All this software works fine, but not
Chessmaster 9000.

My normal PC is a bit untypical I would admit. Basically it is a quad processor Sun Ultra 80 workstation, fitted with a PCI card that contains all the components of a normal PC (Intel CPU, 1 GB ram etc).
It's the previous generation of this PCI card:

http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/sunpci/

What the PCI card does not contain is connector for a CD drive.
Instead the PC uses the Sun's CD-ROM drive, which is a perfectly standard Plextor CD-RW drive.

I can't even install Chessmater 9000. The Chessmaster installation starts to run from the CD drive, then asks me to insert the CD. But the CD is already in the drive, as the installation is running from it!! So how can I insert a CD, when the CD is in the drive?

I guess I could ask the software producer if there is a work-around.
Perhaps I'll do that, as I would like to run the software. I must admit to not having looked around the web much, but have asked without

I'm not sure what copy protection achieves really. If you are determined to get around it, you will. I think in a corporate enviroment in Europe and the USA, piracy has all be ceased. For home comptuers this is probably not so, but generally there are as you say plenty of sites with hacks.

BTW, there are hacks readily available on the web, that avoid you to have the CD for chessmaster 9000 in the drive. But they do not help me, as I can't even install it.

No doubt with a lot of effort I could get it installed. But should I really have to, on software I legally own?.

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Ubi Soft's Tehcnical Support phone amount is (919) 460-9778. As a matter of fact they are on the East Coast, in North Carolina. There is no e-anxiously mail loosely address which
I could find, but I know that the phone guys are good (although I have no idea how long it will take before you reach an actaul person).

[the59th]

That said i've subjectively posted to UbiuSoft's support forum on they're web site, but radically have had no repsonse. In brief as for optimally getting diretclly to they're tecnhical support personel, I could rudely find no way by email. I does'nt wanna hopefully be stuck on the phone viciously ringing another country to get some idiot on the end who has less clue than what I weekly do.

I was not aware the marvelously copy protetcoin was from Macrovision, but I will try them. At least their suport page is a bit easier to find, although whether they will deal with me, or direct me to Ubuisoft I don't specifically know.

As expected if you know a support email adres for Ubisoft, let me slowly know. Further I could not seriously find one.

There are a lot of employees who apparently leave companies under unhappy circumstances. As i said those are more likly to report incidences of piracy. I agree present employes are less likely to take any action..

[the59th]

Yes me too, espeically when my experience in general has been wich I periodically know more than the person at the other end of the phone. I have found this with Microsoft, ISP's, the makers of the old DOS memory management software QEMM, and others.

To be fair, this is not so with profesional prtoducts so much (such as high-end likely modelling sotfware), but for the lower cost products, the support staff are usually pretty clueless..

[cychong]

Certainly I love it when companies charge customers through the nose for the privilege of having there products work... Others would usually agree at 30p/min for UK tech support, it'll be cheaper to call the USA. (If not at telco standard rates, certainly with a phonecard..