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Chess Titans

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Chess Titans
Chess Titans cover
Developers
Oberon Games
Publishers
Microsoft
Release dates
Windows January 30, 2007
Taxonomy
Genres Chess
Series Microsoft Windows
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Key points

Requires a workaround on Windows 8 and later (see Run on Windows 8 and later).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Bundled with Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft Games\Chess Titans
ChessTitans.xml contains settings for windowed mode.
ChessTitansMCE.xml contains settings for Windows Media Center mode (launch with -mce parameter).

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Microsoft Games\Chess Titans

Video

General settings.
General settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
For fullscreen mode, launch with -mce parameter.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Set the graphics quality slider to maximum.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Native Windows Vsync.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
On/off only.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Hot seat
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Run on Windows 8 and later

Chess Titans and other bundled games are unavailable after upgrading to Windows 8.
The steps below make the Windows 7 version run on Windows 8 (there is no fix for the Vista version yet).
Fix Chess Titans compatibility[citation needed]
  1. Recover the Chess Titans files.
    • If you did an upgrade install: look in C:\windows.old\Program Files\Microsoft Games
    • If you did a clean install: go to sources on the Windows 7 DVD and open install.wim using 7-Zip.
  2. Copy the recovered Chess folder somewhere convenient.
  3. Download a hex editor (e.g. HxD).
  4. Open Chess.exe in the hex editor.
    • If Windows 7 was 64-bit:
      1. Search for the hex values 3B C6 0F 4C D6 8B
      2. Change to 39 C0 0F 4C D6 8B
    • If Windows 7 was 32-bit:
      1. Search for the hex values 7D 04 83 65 FC 00
      2. Change to EB 04 83 65 FC 00
  5. Move the Chess folder to its default location (it will only work with this location):
    • If Windows 7 was 64-bit: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games
    • If Windows 7 was 32-bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games
  6. Chess Titans will now run on Windows 8 and later.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Depends on OS version.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) Aero-capable WDDM
128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible
Shader model 2.0 support


References