I am glad to hear that someone out there is using Win2000 with Fractint! I really did not want to have to move to XP or ME. Following your example I just loaded Fractint onto my Win2000 Box.... Fractint loads and runs fine and FAST! on Win2000. Fractint ran fine on the lower res vanilla video settings... Neither makefcfg.exe nor vesa2cfg could not locate any vesa addresses on my ATI Radeon. I am also starting to think the problem is the card not the OS. My ATI Radeon Card doesn't work well with Fractitnt whether I'm in Win98 or Win2000. So I'm also beginning to agree that the problem could be how the individual card deals with VESA register settings...... Luckily I have an Nvideo TNT card that I was saving for a rainy day... I also have some "older" video cards that ran Fractint just fine on my old Pentium 100 and 486 on Win95, Win31x, and Dos years ago. Exactly which 32 Meg Nvideo G-Force card did you use on your Win2000 rig? The trick is to find the optimal AGP Video card that reads all the VESA registers, and also runs great with all the new bells and whistles, so I can run UF and my Windows based Hi-Res Photo/Image-Editing Software. I have UF and all my Large Format Printing Rip Software running on my Win2000 Box. If I can get Fractint to also run on it as well, I'll be a real happy camper.... I'll install the Nvideo TNT Card later on today and let you all know how it worked. All the best! TG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Morgan L. Owens" <packrat@nznet.gen.nz> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com>; <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [Fractint] fractint and xp
At 23:35 05/01/2002 -0500, Tony Parker wrote:
I noticed some old archive mail-list traffict about Fractint on WinNT. Has anybody gotten Fractint to run on Win2000. Now that's a worthwhile topic for discussion and examination!
Well, I've had no trouble running Fractint on Win2000 at at 1024x768 and above on every Win2000 box I've installed it on. About the only apparently relevant feature the machines had in common would be that they both had NVidia Geforce cards.
Really no problem. unpacked the zip into the NTFS C: partition, and run the executable. I think I even got useful output from makefcfg, though that might have been an hallucination.
Morgan L. Owens "Did they call it the Hardware Abstraction Layer on purpose to be one step ahead of IBM?"
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