Tim said:
Running on older Windows versions or DOS itself has the problem that you have to take some additional steps to get very many video modes working. I'm not even very sure how to do that any more.
My understanding is that the video cards and their drivers are the problem, rather than Windows or DOS. If the video card and its driver doesn't support the VESA modes that Fractint uses, *that* is the problem. I got relief from a video chip which only supported DOS VESA 640 x 480 -- built onto a mother board in the inexpensive machine I'm using under WinXP -- by taking Albrecht Niekamp's advice and getting an old (used) nVidia GeForce 6800 video card. Its drivers do *lots* of VESA modes -- and as a bonus, my particular model of their 6800 series has a 2nd video out port that I put another display on. I haven't yet bought and connected a 2nd power cable to the nVidia card. But I don't play any heavy duty 3D video games, so I haven't needed the extra power the 2nd cable provides yet. Would someone please confirm (or refute) my understanding that the video card and its driver supporting (or not supporting) VESA video modes is the thing that makes Fractint not run on some machines -- rather than the version of Windows? I've run Fractint on both Windows 98 and WinXP successfully. - Hal Lane ######################## # hallane@earthlink.net ########################