Well, it looks like I recovered from my recent case of amnesia and I finally remembered what my problem was. I've switching between different video cards and running makefcfg.exe overwrote some of my pervious settings in an older fractint.cfg. I coded in the disk video table sttings for image pixel file sizes from 1024 x 768 x 256 all the way up to 30720 x.23040 x 256. I've been running video disk saves at 10240 x 7680 x 256 resolution, which will render up a 41 Meg *.gif file. On a Pentium 2 x 450Mhz It's a little slow. Unfortunately my 'hot" P4 x 1Gighz is running Win2000. Does the size of the video disk save affect the size of the video disk save cache buffer and the speed of rendering the pixels? Is there anyway to either increase the size of the Fractint of Disk Save Mode Cache buffer 64k??? Since RAM is cheap these days I'm running 768 Meg of Ram. Are there any improvements to the Dos config.sys and autoexec.bat and msdos.sys setting that might either enlarge or improve the Fractint performance. Talk to you all again.... By the way are Spanky and the other "official" Fractint Websites Down for Good? TG ----- Original Message ----- From: <the_juggernaut@juno.com> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Fractint Disk Video Mode Problems
If you want a giant image, you should use the divide-and-conquer feature. Take the image you want to render, go to the save parameters screen, and at the bottom it will say "this is for generating the image in pieces." Choose a videomode and how many pieces you want. For example, if you want a 4096x3072 image, set x_multiples = y_multiples = 4 and vid_mode = SF7. It will make a .par file and a .bat file that will draw 16 1024x768 images and piece them together. The spliced together .gif is like an animated .gif (as near as I can tell), and you can use the program simplgif.exe to convert it to a regular one.
However, I just tried this a few days ago, and simplgif didn't work. It made the .gif fine, but when I opened the simplified .gif, there were problems. Paint Shop Pro said something like "wrong lzw format" and SEA (a dos image viewer) opened it but it was really screwed up. This method has worked for me before, but that was on my old computer. Suggestions anyone?
Jon K.
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:36:45 -0500 "Tony Parker" <tgparker@worldnet.att.net> writes:
Call me stupid, but I seem unable to get my present configuration of Fractint to save gif image files in disk video mode larger than the configured standard video card settings. I know I've forgotten something and <SNIP>