comment { On Mon, 17 May 2004, David Jones wrote:
david wrote:
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.
The XP system I tried had to be re-started after a FRACTINT session. By "implicitly", I think you mean "inherently", and in that case you would be right. In protected mode, the video drivers really don't hav an excuse for _not_ trapping any kind of access to the video RAM or the BIOS calls that would enable them to predict such access (enabling them to save or discard any purpose that they had for it). YMMV. OEM: Outside the Estate of Micro$oft.
I have problems with fractint and display drivers when using it on my desktop, but that's more to do with the fact that I have a matrox parhelia card. Fractint itself will run fine, but I can only get low reolution display. I think a DOS boot disk would give me the same problems, but I can't check it out as all my disks are NTFS formatted. What does fractint do on those systems that can't cope with it ?
This is strange. I've been getting wind that NTFS was a problem with Fractint until now. By "low resolution", do you mean 640x480? As a rule, I speculate at resolutions below 800x600. 320x200 is zippy on things like this: } julfnzsqrd { ; Simplifies to hard-coded julfn+zsqrd. z=fn1(pixel), c=P2: z= fn2(z) +z*z +c |z| <= real(P3) } Dendrong { ; 6:06.74/megapixel@350Mhz&PII. ; This gets bigger but kind of boring ; at higher iteration counts. ; Score one for the parser over the compiler. reset=2003 type=julfn+zsqrd function=sinh passes=t center-mag=-0.470218/2.57876/0.1237586/1.2183/-29.38848943572523/8.277\ 90231174726365 params=0/0.75 float=y maxiter=255 bailout=256 inside=0 outside=tdis invert=1.49867022990501/-1.25/1.25 periodicity=0 colors=@diag.map } DendrongP { ; 5:02.59/megapixel@350Mhz&PII. ; Essentially the same thing with the parser. reset=2003 type=formula formulafile=duckowar.par formulaname=julfnzsqrd function=ident/sinh passes=t center-mag=-0.470218/2.57876/0.1237586/1.2183/-29.38848943572523/8.277\ 90231174726365 params=0/0/0/0.75/256/0 float=y maxiter=255 inside=0 outside=tdis invert=1.49867022990501/-1.25/1.25 periodicity=0 colors=@diag.map } _______ MS: Acronym of Multiple Sclerosis. M$: Acronym for Monopolistic $cuzzball.