"Damien M. Jones" wrote: Unfortunately for FractInt, VESA support in the BIOS faded into disuse when DirectX became more popular. Game developers--the last major group of programmers still wanting direct access to hardware--could move to Windows and theoretically simplify their development efforts. It isn't so much that FractInt doesn't support AGP and PCI cards; it's more than those newer cards no longer provide the VESA interface that FractInt needs to talk to them. Many cards provided only basic VESA support but even that is disappearing from new video cards. Right! Your explanation is more accurate. BTW, I tried formatting a FAT16 partition under Win2000 (which can be done without Partition Magic, just go to control panel -administrative tools-computer management-disk management) and running fractint, but of course it didn't work any better, for the reasons you have just explained. I got 564 x 400 video mode (IBM Register Comnpatible) by tweaking up my monitor to 100 HZ, but then the flicker was so bad it hurt my eyes. Oh well, at least I found out how to partition my hard disks under Win2000. -- Ken