I'm sorry, but I couldn't even find the preliminary setup.exe file! I'm just going to give the Chessmasters CDs to someone else. Thank you for your speedy reply and expert help, but my ignorance of all matters digital prevented me from benefitting. Reply with necessary information and the result to help you further. Double-click the executable file to start the installation program.
Click to select the Run this program in compatibility mode for check box, click Windows 8 with which it is compatible with in the Run this program in compatibility mode for list, and then click OK.Į. In the Package Name Properties dialog box, click the Compatibility tab.ĭ. Right-click the file, and then click Properties.Ĭ.
Locate the executable file (.exe file) for the driver installation program.ī.
Now, to install in Compatibility Mode, follow these steps:Ī. The issue might be due to the incompatibility of the game with Windows 10 I suggest you to install the game in compatibility mode and see if it helps.
Of course, that is -right click- on the Chessmaster icon and -left click- "Run as administrator".Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. How to play Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition Windows The game with patch 1.02 has been tested on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8.1, works fine. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10 or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed. PS - It, also, never hurts to run Chessmaster as "Administrator" when you play. Just remember, the more exclusions you make, whether to the firewall or the anti-malware software, the more your computer is at risk to exploits. I'm sure you could narrow down the problem to a single executable, I'm thinking maybe just game.exe? Then, you would only to make one process exclusion or firewall exception, and maybe not even both of those are needed, as well? I'm too lazy to do of that, So, yeah, I took a lazy shotgun approach to the problem, but it worked. Any game that makes it to a tenth version and beyond is sure to be a popular one developers seldom spend time and money upgrading games. select the executable from the list above-> -click- "Open" ->įrom there, you can check public and private, as well. Chessmaster version 10 is the 10th instalment of the chess playing game from Ubisoft. You can find all of that under: "Control Panel" -> "Windows Defender Firewall" -> "Allow an app or feature through Windows Defender Firewall" -> "Change settings" -> "Allow another app." -> "Browse" -> Dust off those thinking caps, boys and girls, Mindscape is back with the newest version of their popular series, Chessmaster.You wouldnt think it was possible to improve on a fine chess program, but Mindscape pulls out all the stops for Chessmaster 6000.Chess is the ultimate strategy game, which has been passed down for centuries from one culture to the next. I, also, "allow an app." all of these executables listed above in "Windows Defender Firewall." Example:Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition\Chessmaster.exe orĬ:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition\game.exe
To make these exclusions, you need to go to "Windows Defender Security Settings" -> "Virus & threat protection" -> "Virus & threat protection settings" -> "Exclusions" -> "Add or remove exclusions" -> "Add an exclusion" -> "Process" ->Īnd from there add the full path to the executable. Likewise, the game clock would be back on the screen and running normally.Īnyway, armed with the knowledge that there was a conflict with 'Windows Defender,' I took the shotgun approach and added a bunch of "process" exclusions on all the Chessmaster executables found typically in this location:Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition\ Once the CPU spike subsided to "normal" levels, I would once again could make a move in the game.
Service Executable" and its sub-processes would spike in CPU usage. What I found was that, when the "TIME CONTROLS" lagged and disappeared from the screen, Windows' "Antimalware So, in order to pin down the problem, I opened "Task Manager," and while I 'played' the game, I watched for any processes with unusually heavy CPU usage. In my case, the game worked fine for awhile after I upgraded to Windows 10, but somewhere along the way, after an update I'm assuming?, the problem you described came into existence.
I had the exact same issue as you've described it.