Thanks Martin. I'll give it a try. George ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin Krikorian To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Fractal Creations 2nd Ed. Hi George- Did you try the method provided by Noel Giffin, listed below? It has worked well for me, although I still cannot do an Alt-tab switch back to windows - I have to stop Fractint to get back. No more crashes, though, and I can use many video modes. Marty K Noel Giffin is my hero! These instructions worked perfectly, and I am now happily switching back and forth on Win XP Pro from windows applications to Fractint with no problems. Thanks very much! Marty K On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 02:46 PM, Noel Giffin wrote:
I have had success in getting fractint to run under XP-pro on my new PC at work. (Ssshhh!) I'll pass these findings on in hopes that it may help others having problems. I was getting complete graphics garbage except in very low res modes until I did the following:
--------------------------------------------- fractint under windows XP Pro Graphics environment: NEC MultiSync FE991SB on Intel 82865G Graphics Controller Windows screen resolution set to 1280x1024 Colour quality - low (8 bit)
Colour quality must be set to low or it won't work. If the 8 bit modes are not displayed you may have to add them. From the control panel double click on the display icon. Select the Settings option. On the display properties window check your colour quality setting. Select 8-bit. If not present select the advanced options button to display more control tabs and select the Adaptor tab. From that screen select 'List all Modes' to pop up a small window showing a complete list of all valid graphics modes for your graphics adaptor. Scroll through until you find an appropriate 256 colour mode. It doesn't have to be 1024x768. After your selection is highlighted click okay to switch to that mode. Make sure that fractint's compatibility mode is set to 256 colours from right clicking on the fractint icon and selecting preferences. From the preference menu select compatibility mode and under display settings select 256 colors. From Screen menu select full screen option.
Then double clicking on the fractint Icon will start the program and I can now use shift-F7 to select a 1024x768x8bit colour mode. All functions work including colour cycling and the colour palette editor and mode switching between text and graphics without loss of on-screen fractal image.
I am using the DOS UnivBE drivers mentioned by Tim, as well, although I'm not sure they are required. They wouldn't pass their self tests until I made the above changes to the windows graphics adaptor modes.
Hope this helps,
Noel Giffin
On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 11:22 AM, George Priest wrote: Hi: I have "lurking" around the fractint discussion group for some years. (Just at the moment I still can't figure out how to get Fractint to work with Windows XP -- and don't tell me about DOS boot disks or multiple partitions.) Anyway, I have an almost new copy of Fractal Creations 2nd Ed, complete with CD, 3 !/2 " floppy and 3-D glasses that I am willing to sell for $10 plus shipping -- say $5. If anyone is interested, let me know at geopriest@raincity.com George Priest _______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list Fractint@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list Fractint@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint