Good morning, Paul! Hope you had a GREAT 4rth of July! I have not been at work since last Thurs.- took some time off- and don't do email/internet at home- JUST because that is all I do at work!! SO! I'm just now back, and able to answer your mail.
I tried what you said, below, but I get the same errors when I try to change the resolution. So! How do I run the MAKEFCFG.EXE?? Do I have to shell out to DOS, or just run it from where it is?
Thanks for all your help! I am going back and saving all the files as a .par file, to be READY when I can change the resolution!
Kim
"Paul N. Lee" <Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net> wrote:
Kim Hagar wrote:
>
> I did some reading and found that
> many NICE monitors, etc., just do
> not allow the
changes, even though
> they are quite capable . . .
Most problems people have running FractInt under Windows-XP are due to
the graphics card, and rarely has anything to do with the monitor used
(unless that monitor is so old that it truely is incapable of higher
resolutions).
>
> I am loading them back from a .gif
The file you sent me does have the special trailer information within
the GIF file, where the FractInt related information is stored. I was
able to load the image, then turn-around and save it as a PAR file.
(See instructions at the bottom of this email.)
>
> I am running WinXP SP2 patched to the hilt.
> Video Adapter: Radeon VE Version 6.13.10.6006
> I was using VGA/MCGA 320 X 200 @ 256 colors.
> Have not tried running the MAKEFCFG.EXE program;
> mainly because I really didn't understand what
> that would do . . .
It should rebuild the FRACTINT.CFG file
with the particualr settings
unique for your system. This is where the video resolutions are kept as
options when you choose within FractInt.
>
> I have kind of just gone down the list.
> Most of them say what I am doing requires
> 256 colors, which I would want, anyway,
> but the ones that ARE 256 colors are higher,
> but those are the ones that error out.
>
> Mostly it gives an error: "That video mode
> is not available with your adapter. Any Key
> to Continue."
Here is what I did to get around your situation:
1. Use the key to "load image from file".
2. Once it has been displayed, use the key to
"save current parameters" to a PAR file with a
image name matching the loaded GIF file.
3. Once the parameters have been saved to disc,
use the <@> key to "run saved command set".
You will need to navigate to the PAR file
and choose your named
image.
4. Now, use the key to make choice of the
SFn SuperVGA video modes, such as SF5 or SF6.
5. If this works, then try some of the other
higher resolutions available.
I was able to easily get 1024 x 768 @ 256. But this machine I used
would not go further without resorting to Disk Video Mode.
Sincerely,
P.N.L.
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