On 6 Jan 02 at 13:22, Ken MacLean wrote:
Tony: good question about getting fractint to run under Win2000. The best I can get in 256 color is SF1 480 x 360 which is unacceptable. The problem is fractint only supports video drivers for those old VESA boards.
Has nothing to do with video drivers. Fractint is just reading and writing the video control registers directly, which is a no-no under the WindowsNT-based OSes, Linux/Unix, and most of what are sometimes called "real" operating systems. FWIW, Fractint works fun under OS/2, but OS/2 allows DOS programs to directly access the hardware.
AGP and PCI boards are not supported.
Not true. I have Fractint working fine at my usual 1024x768x256 resolutions on the Duron boxes' PCI Voodoo3 card.
I'm going to try to set up a FAT16 partition on my D drive, as was suggested earlier.
If you're going that far, shuffle your partitions around to put the DOS partition first, make it active, boot to it, format and install plain old DOS on it, and run Fractint under DOS. You'll see much faster rendering times, I'm sure!
I don't think that will work either as WIN2000 will not allow access to hardware registers needed for Int10h, as David pointed out earlier. Oh well. I'll let you know if by some miracle it works. --Ken
Tony Parker wrote:
Why would anyone want to migrate to XP in the first place? Geesh!
Maybe by the time MS releases Service Pack 9 or 10 XP sometime around 2005, XP might actuaslly work properly!
I agree we all get eventually pushed into the next level of "progress" whether we like it or not. Hey there's still always Linux! ;)
BTW did any of you guys read all the recent trade reviews re: comparing Win2000 perfomance versus Win XP, and XP lost badly across the board! Even the MicroSoft Corporate Hacks had to grudgingly admit that Win2000 still rules!
I noticed some old archive mail-list traffict about Fractint on WinNT. Has anybody gotten Fractint to run on Win2000. Now that's a worthwhile topic for discussion and examination!
I have moved alot of my capability to a Win2000 Workstation and a Win2000. All my older Windows and Dos stuff still reside on my venerable Win98 Box. There is no way I would ever move to ME and I still see no legitimate reason to move to XP yet.
The only upgrade that I'm considering is to change the motherboard on my Win98 box from an aging PII-450 to a P4-1.5/6Gighz with 1+ Gig of Ram and upgrade the ATX power supply to 400 Watts. I suspect that thusly upgraded there will be no present reason to move from Win98 to XP-Kludge.....