I sometime provide too much information... But buried below there might be something useful... -Hal ----- Tony Hanmer said: ---------- I've now tried the Compatibility Troubleshooter, as well as all the manual compatibility modes, and also updated the graphics driver ...all with no difference in what's available for display modes. That's unfortunate. I recall that some video card manufacturers intentionally omitted support for certain graphics modes in their cards and/or drivers back when primarily DOS Fractint was being used. The fix was to buy a graphics card that supported the video modes I wanted. I now recall that I had this problem on a WinXP computer and bought a new graphics card that was known to support the resolutions I wanted. This worked for me. I see on this page: https://tinyurl.com/Intel-HD4000-support or https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/products/81499/graphics-driv... that your graphics processor is likely to be from the era when the omission of support for certain resolutions was going on. On this 02-Apr-2018 Intel page "Supported 2D/3D Graphics Features": https://tinyurl.com/SupportedIntelGraphicsFeatures or https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000007136/graphics-... they have so many Whiz-Bang features to list that they don't bother to list the display resolutions the driver supports! If you followed *all* the links on this page: https://tinyurl.com/Intel-HD-Graphics-4000-All or https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/products/81499/graphics-driv... you might uncover something useful... I see that there's an "Intel Driver & Support Assistant (Intel DSA)": https://tinyurl.com/Driver-and-Support-Assistant or https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html?iid=dc_IDSA That could potentially be quite valuable... This page shows that there are different river files for 32 & 64 Win-10, and has *additional* info: https://tinyurl.com/IntelGraphicsDriverforWindows or https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27417/Intel-Graphics-Driver-for-Wi... https://tinyurl.com/Intel-HD4000-support I saw on the page above that they actually released a driver for that card/graphics processor on 03-Jan-2018. Is that the one you now have? <--<< - Hal Lane ######################## # mailto:hallane@earthlink.net ######################## From: Tony Hanmer <a.hanmer@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2018 7:35 AM To: Hal Lane <hallane@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: [Fractint] Video mode limitations Hi Hal, Many thanks for the speedy response! I've now tried the Compatibility Troubleshooter, as well as all the manual compatibility modes, and also updated the graphics driver (an Intel HD 4000), and restarted the computer as well; all with no difference in what's available for display modes. But thanks again for trying, and I'll make do with 800 x 600 - better than nothing. Best, Tony On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 at 11:13, Harold Lane <mailto:hallane@earthlink.net> wrote: Tony, I don't see anything obviously wrong with your Fractint.cfg file. I use: - DOS Fractint in WinXP under VirtualBox, - Jonathan's FractSD, and - Richard's Fractint for Windows beta 5 but, I'm not familiar with FractInt for Windows version 20.99.8 Wait a minute! Richard's Fractint for Windows beta 5 is internally labeled: "Fractint version 20.99.8", so I *am* familiar with this version. For completeness, this is where I got Richard's program: https://tinyurl.com/Richards-Fractint-for-WinBeta5 or: https://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/fractint-for-windows-beta... I ran it just now and successfully used all these 256-color onscreen resolutions: 800x600 1024x768 1200x900 1280x960 Did you successfully run FractInt for Windows version 20.99.8 at higher resolutions than 800 x 600 under any earlier versions of Windows on your *Win 10* *computer* with the *same* graphics card? Did you successfully run FractInt for Windows version 20.99.8 at higher resolutions than 800 x 600 under any earlier versions of Windows on a *different* computer? It kind of smells like there's somethung going on with how FracInt for Windows version 20.99.8 interfaces with whatever video drivers you are using with your graphics card in Win 10. A standard thing to try is to check whether your graphics card manufacturer has any updated video drivers for your card... In the event of problems when trying another driver, it's supposed to be easy to roll back drivers, although I have not had occasion to do this myself. Another thing that I've not done myself, but might be useful, is to try the Windows 10 Compatibility Troubleshooter. I think it can provide some backwards-compatible environments for older programs. Invoke the Windows 10 Compatibility Troubleshooter by right clicking Fractint.exe and choosing: Troubleshoot compatibility. This video shows that being done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjeu6hVi0tw It also show using a manual method with more visibility of the settings you are getting: right click the Fractint.exe and choose: Properties > Compatibility tab and make adjustments. I'd be interested to hear of the results of your: - possible video driver update, and < - - << (Check this first.) - compatibility Troubleshooting I'm leaning towards it being a video *card* or video *driver* compatibility problem... - Hal Lane ######################## # mailto:hallane@earthlink.net ######################## -----Original Message----- From: Fractint <mailto:fractint-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> On Behalf Of Tony Hanmer Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 8:04 AM To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <mailto:fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Fractint] Video mode limitations Greetings, I'm using FracInt for Windows version 20.99.8 in Windows 10. Here I seem to be limited to a max display size (though not a render size) of 800 x 600 pixels. My Fractint.cfg file is currently as follows: ; FRACTINT.CFG File ; Don't use TABs when editing this file. ; The driver field is required or the mode will be skipped. ; If the driver rejects the mode, it won't be added to the mode list. ;key name of adapter/mode | AX | BX | CX | DX |mode| x | y |clr| comments | driver ;=========================================================================== ============== F2 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 320, 240,256,,gdi F3 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 400, 300,256,,gdi F4 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 600, 450,256,,gdi F5 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 640, 480,256,,gdi F6 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 800, 600,256,,gdi F7 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1024, 768,256,,gdi F8 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1200, 900,256,,gdi F9 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1280, 960,256,,gdi SF2 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 8192, 8192,256,,disk SF3 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19,16304,16304,256,,disk SF4 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19,30000,30000,256,,disk SF5 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 640, 400,256,,disk SF6 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 640, 480,256,,disk SF7 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 800, 600,256,,disk SF8 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1024, 768,256,,disk SF9 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1280, 1024,256,,disk CF1 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 8000, 8000,256,,disk CF2 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19,30000,22500,256,,disk CF3 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19,16304,12228,256,,disk CF4 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19,32608,24456,256,,disk CF5 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 8192, 6144,256,,disk But nothing past that 800 x 600 shows up in available video modes in FractInt. Any help, please? Many thanks, Tony Hanmer _______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list mailto:Fractint@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus