I have this last week had to (yet again) reinstall Windows 98SE on my 1Ghz Athlon PC. Everything works fine except that Fractint can no longer run in 1600 x 1200 mode. My desktop runs 1600x1200 32 bit and I have been able to show that the 8bit and 16 bit modes also function at this resolution. The installation of Fractint is the one previously in use prior to the reinstallation of Windows and the fractint.cfg file for my Matrox G400 cardis is as below. Both 1600x1200 modes were prieviously usable. ; FRACTINT.CFG File ;key name of adapter/mode | AX | BX | CX | DX |mode| x | y |clr| comments ;=============================================================================== == F2 ,VESA Color Palette Mode ,4f02,100, 0, 0, 28, 640, 400, 256,VESA mode from OEM Matrox Graphics Inc. F3 ,VESA Color Palette Mode ,4f02,101, 0, 0, 28, 640, 480, 256,VESA mode from OEM Matrox Graphics Inc. F4 ,VESA Color Palette Mode ,4f02,103, 0, 0, 28, 800, 600, 256,VESA mode from OEM Matrox Graphics Inc. F5 ,VESA Color Palette Mode ,4f02,105, 0, 0, 28,1024, 768, 256,VESA mode from OEM Matrox Graphics Inc. F6 ,VESA Color Palette Mode ,4f02,107, 0, 0, 28,1280,1024, 256,VESA mode from OEM Matrox Graphics Inc. F7 ,VESA Color Palette Mode ,4f02,11C, 0, 0, 28,1600,1200, 256,VESA mode from OEM Matrox Graphics Inc. SF9 ,VESA Standard interface ,4f02, 107, 0, 0, 28,1280,1024,256,OK: Andy Fu - Chips&Tech SF8,Millennium VESA mode ,4f02, 11C, 0, 0, 28,1600,1200,256,OK: Sylvie Gallet AF6 ,Disk/RAM 'Video' , 3, 0, 0, 0, 11,6000,4000,256,For Background Fractals When I now run vesa2cfg.exe I get a QPV.cfg file witout any 1600x1200 entries. see below# QPV/386 / CDPEG configuration file # created by VESA2CFG on Tue 21-Jun-2011, 23:33:18 VESA BGR # perhaps RGB instead of BGR #'VESA local #"VESA configuration for "Matrox Graphics Inc." 320 200 16 40 $0d 0 640 480 16 80 $12 0 800 600 16 100 $4f02 $0102 320 200 256 320 $13 0 640 480 256 640 $4f02 $0101 800 600 256 800 $4f02 $0103 1024 768 256 1024 $4f02 $0105 1280 1024 256 1280 $4f02 $0107 640 480 32k 1280 $4f02 $0110 800 600 32k 1600 $4f02 $0113 1024 768 32k 2048 $4f02 $0116 1280 1024 32k 2560 $4f02 $0119 640 480 64k 1280 $4f02 $0111 800 600 64k 1600 $4f02 $0114 1024 768 64k 2048 $4f02 $0117 1280 1024 64k 2560 $4f02 $011a 640 480 16m 2560 $4f02 $0112 R 800 600 16m 3200 $4f02 $0115 R 1024 768 16m 4096 $4f02 $0118 R 1280 1024 16m 5120 $4f02 $011b R Fractint runs in all 256 colour modes except the 1600x1200 mode. Attempts to remake the fractint cfg file using Makecfg.exe now stall with an error"Reading your VESA VIEO BIOS... Int 0x10 ,ax=0x4F01 failed : ax=0xAF4F" Working on a new 3.2Ghz Athlon PC under XP home with a Radeon 9200SE (128MB) card I am also only able to use upto and including 1280 X1024 modes . The QPV file does not have any entries above 1280 x1024 and yet this card supports upto 2048 pixel graphics .Similarly the .cfg file resulting from running Makefcfg.exe does not contain entries above 1280x1024. Appended is my Stools.ini file for the G400 use. [fractint] textsafe=save video=F6 float=yes map=neon Vesadetect=no Sound=off I would like to be able again to use 1600x1200 modes and so I would welcome any advice on how to restore this facility on the two PCs. Ian Entwistle --
http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=533 Pricewatch lists vendors selling the 9.2Mpixel resolution ViewSonic VP2290b TFT display monitor starting at a bit more than $6,000 -- video card is extra. That's 4 times a 1920x1200 image. This is an 8:5 aspect ratio. I'd love to see some fractals on that screen!
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Lee H. Skinner wrote:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=533
Pricewatch lists vendors selling the 9.2Mpixel resolution ViewSonic VP2290b TFT display monitor starting at a bit more than $6,000 -- video card is extra.
That's 4 times a 1920x1200 image. This is an 8:5 aspect ratio.
I'd love to see some fractals on that screen!
Print on a transparency at 600dpi and light it from the back. At 10.5" by 8", that's 6300 by 4800 -- fewer colours, but more pixels. It's probably smaller than that screen though, so you might want to blow it up on a projector. Still, the equipment is likely a lot cheaper, perhaps just a little glue, a window, and remover for the glue (just in case you get tired of it). Buy The Weigh. Don't bother with resolutions above 600 dpi for images at home. A lot of advertizing contains the term "optimized DPI", and as far as I can tell, that usually means 600dpi with more levels of ink or more colours. So, by "optimized [for sales]", they mean adjusted for comparison with four colour process printing (which really can go up to 2458 dpi). (That's a lot of data in truecolour, so I wonder if there's a way to make and print 4 colour pre-dithered GIFs that won't be adjusted in the printer. There's a device called bitcmyk in GhostScript, but I hav no clue how to use it). I think that the physics of a moving print-head on an ink-jet printer keep the real DPI (as opposed to Bits Per Pixel) down to about 600 dpi. I'd hav to look at a few more detailed specification sheets to say that this always applies, but as a rule, printing at higher resolutions involves a lot of time, trouble, and space. Don't bother with resolutions above 600 dots per inch, unless you know that your printer supports it.
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