What difficulty does everyone have using fractint under XP ? I use it on my laptop and swap freely between fractint and other windows programs. This would seem to indicate that there is nothing implicitly conflicting betwwen the two. I have problems with fractint and display drivers when using it on my desktop, but that's more to do with the fact that I have a matrox parhelia card. Fractint itself will run fine, but I can only get low reolution display. I think a DOS boot disk would give me the same problems, but I can't check it out as all my disks are NTFS formatted. What does fractint do on those systems that can't cope with it ? regards David Paul N. Lee wrote:
carenp wrote:
.2. the operating system is win2k, but may be using XP (ickypoo) within 6 months...
If you have a good machine, RAM and disk space, I would suggest getting away from Win-2K and definitely going with XP. You can establish another partition and format for FAT32, then load Win-98 into that area. Either have a dual boot setup or use a VM environment.
As to the problem with the newer nVidia card, see if you can get hold of an old Win-98 Boot disk and see what happens when you run FractInt from that when you choose the DOS mode. You can get all the files that come on the distributed Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Boot Disk from the following location. They are in a ZIP file and must be extracted to a floppy: http://www.Nahee.com/Software/ Look for a file called "Win98-SE_Boot.zip".
You may wish to look into running the "MAKEFCFG.EXE" program to see if that will create the correct configurations needed for your system. That program reads VESA Video BIOS and writes the "FRACTINT.CFG" file with VESA video modes.
Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
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