You're welcome! I think the 2048x2048 is a disk video mode accessible from the Fractint list of video modes. Alt-shift-F6, IIRC. Doesn't depend on display resolution. Mine's only 1920x1080. (Oh for a lovely 4K display!)
On Jul 29, 2017 05:31, John Wilson <1stdiscus(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you David. I just tried your reference fractal,(the marksjulia) and
> got an identical time to yours... 1m 03.16 secs, actually. Seems I'm in
> the ballpark. The closest size I have to your disk video is
> 1920x1440x256, which rendered in 17m 08.15.
> My display is only 1366x768 however.
>
> On 29 July 2017 at 01:04, david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > On 07/28/2017 01:50 PM, John Wilson wrote:
> >
> >> What's a known execution timing for running a Fractint fractal? I'd like
> >> to know how my new system stacks up. Please?
> >>
> >> Installed Fractint in DOSBox on my brand new laptop, which is surprising
> >> me
> >> with its agility, under 64-bit Windows 7 Pro with a 500G SSD. I was
> >> particularly pleased to find that the touch pad does a fine job in moving
> >> fractal selections about... smoother than a mouse. My only problem is one
> >> which has been with me forever... can't set up PCTOOLS to put saved gifs
> >> into the correct directory. I have a mental block on that subject!
> >>
> >
> > Hmm, maybe just pick one or more of the standard included fractals at some
> > specific image resolution and note the Calculation Time shown time after
> > it's generated? (Press TAB after it's complete to see the info.)
> >
> > I just ran the marksjulia with default values at 1280x1024x256 colors
> > under DOSBox 0.74 on 64bit Debian Linux and Fractint reports it took
> > 1m3.22s. I have a 2.4GHz i7 (4 cores, 8 with hyperthreading) laptop, 16GB
> > RAM, 500GB SSD.
> >
> > Just for fun, I generated the same fractal in 2048x2048 disk-video mode
> > while doing other things on the puter. It took 26m44.26s.
> >
> > For comparison, XFractint 20.04.10 (native Linux Fractint) rendered the
> > marksjulia at 1920x1026x256 in .17 seconds. But it used floating point.
> >
> > I don't know how to make XFractint render images to disk video. Starting
> > it with the "-disk" option still leaves the image size restricted to the
> > size of the XFractint window. Specifying geometry of 2048x2048 gave me a
> > big window, but the disk rendering still showed only 1920x1026 image size.
> > :(
David W. Jones
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
