Fractint is alive and well on my Win2000 Printserver, as I write this e-mail to you. Fractint looks for ye olde fashioned Vesa registers, which may or may not be supported by your "new" video adapter card, and the Vesa registers are also not directly supported by WinNT, Win2000, or WinXP. So you may in fact have two problems. Many Fractint users have complained that when run under either Win2000 or WinXP, makefcfg.exe might not see the Vesa registers of your video card. Makefcfg.exe is the utility that reads your video adaptor cards Vesa registers and writes to your fractint.cfg file. If makefcfg.exe can't see your video card's Vesa registers, then the fractint.cfg file won't be able to point Fractint.exe to your video card's Vesa registers. Unless makefcfg.exe is run in a real Dos environment (Dos, Win95/98-Dos) it will not "see" your video card's Vesa registers. Booting from a Dos or Win95/98-Dos Floppy will hopefully "trick" makefcfg.exe into seeing the vesa registers and it will write you a new frractint.cfg file. Then you can remove the floppy, reboot your PC in Win2000/WinXP and hopefully Fractint will now "see" the Vesa registers of your video card. Then you can make & configure yourself a "Dos Box" to run Fractint.exe under Win2000/WinXP etc.... Your problem may also be due to the fact that your video card is of the "new" kind that no longer supports the "old style" Vesa video registers. Most of the "older" Nvidia TNT cards still support Vesa registers. The good news about the "older" video cards is that if you can find them they are usually a lot cheaper than the "newer" video cards. A good tip is to check with other members of the fractint list which cards still work with fractint. Most video adapter card OEMs post the specs of their cards on their websites, so a good policy would be to check a card's specs before buying it. The thing to look for is VESA register support. If you have previously had fractint running under Dos or Win95/98 in an older PC, Why don't you swap the "old" video card from your older PC and install it on your "new" PC? You might have to also transfer over the drivers, or download and install "new" XP drivers from the "old" OEMs website. Hope you find some of this useful. TG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anna Baron" <aeb5476@yahoo.co.uk> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:20 AM Subject: [Fractint] Fractint on XP

I suppose there's no chance fractint could be made to run on XP (nt file system)? Am I really and truly stuck with having to repartition and to dual-boot into Win98/DOS in order to keep fractint? It seems so, as I've been trying hard enough to make it run on my newly purchased machine running xp but it refuses to do so with reports of missing fractint.cfg. I guess no one has a trick up his sleeve that would save me the trouble of wiping off my new system? Cheers, Anna.

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