On 5 Jan 02 at 21:29, Paul Kloeg wrote:
I recently installed XP. My video card is: ATI Rage 128 GL AGP. It worked fine for use with FRACTINT under Windows98 and WindowsME, 1024*786 256 color VEGA mode.
In WindowsXP it is not possible for me to use Fractint anymore. The utility makefcfg returns no videomode, only when using option 16 a number of videomodes are entered, all with 1024*786 16 colors, but for all of them Fractint refuses to run. Also for all video modes in the old fractint.cfg made under W98 and WindowsME result in: "that video mode is not available with your adapter". I tried to install the original ATI driver but it is not accepted by XP because "it is not designed for XP". Has anybody suggestions to resolve this problem?
Dump WindowsXP. WindowsXP, like its ancestors NT and Windows2000, doesn't allow applications direct access to hardware, such as the video card registers Fractint needs to enable video modes that MS decided in its infinite-pursuit-of-monopoly wisdom are not available. Does running Fractint full screen make a difference? David gnome@hawaii.rr.com