On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:46:56 -0500, "Jonathan Osuch" <osuchj@avalon.net> said:
Robert,
Did you try creating a shortcut to Fractint, then set the properties to run Fractint full screen (2 places)?
Just tried that, as soon as I read your email. New shortcut worked fine... until I tried switching out of Fractint (whilst in a text screen), at which point I got the same BSoD as before. :( Since Windows progs can grab focus and thus force a switch (and hence the BSoD if I have Fractint running), this needs to be resolved...
If you have a machine where the manufacturer has tuned the XP video drivers to work with the hardware, you should be able to get this to work.
Unfortunately my laptop (a Crappard-Bell) was optimised for Vista -- the reason I'm running XP is because of Crappard-Bell's cheapskate policy of making users roll their own recovery discs (which can only be done once, so if it doesn't work (as it didn't for me), you're screwed). Still, I find XP better than Vista, with the sole exception of dial-up networking.