Bill wrote:
I have a Windows XP system with a Radeon 9600 XT AGP card. Fractint works fine with it.
Thanks for the info! I'm inclined to suspect some weakness in the VESA support rather than AGP. In this day of Windows drivers, vendors are probably not that motivated to have good VESA video support because nobvody (other than Fractint users of course!!) care. Over the years, in my experience, ATI boards have had suspect VESA support although they have been otherwise good.
As an aside, you may recall that many people on this list, including you, tried to help me with a problem I had when I first got the card. Fractint would not give me any resolutions over 640 X 480. Nothing I tried helped.
However, I recently purchased a new monitor. It's a SyncMaster 173P LCD display. I can now get resolutions up to 1280 X 1024. My previous SONY monitor was certainly capable of the handling these resolutions, so I don't know why changing the monitor should have had an effect.
That's interesting too, glad to hear it worked out for you. Sounds like a Windows plug and play issue. Did you ever try to use DOS? Did anyone advise you to run the makecfg.exe program? It detects VESA modes and dumps them in a form Fractint can understand.
Maybe this will give you some ideas about your own situation, though.
Yes it did, thanks!! If any one has my exact board ATI Radeon 7500 AGP I'd like to hear. I'm not a gamer, so maybe I should just put in an older VGA in the "new" computer. Tim