As per Paul's suggestion the following FOTD was chosen. Jim Muth's computer generated it in around 1:22. The par and formula is best procured there. http://home.att.net/~Fractals_3/FotD_09-06-12.html The system is an Intel I7 920 2.67Ghz and 6GB DDR3 memory. The Opsys is Sun VirtualBox (freeware) running Ubuntu 64 (freeware). Fractint 20.00 was installed from the on line package system, then 20.04.9 was compile and over installed on that. I don't know if pre-installing 20.00 is necessary (and I found it very difficult to use), but I note that I did that for the record. I got disk video to work with the -disk parameter. It took 17 minutes to generate at the default of 800x600, while I was able to get one on screen run also as 800x600 in 16 minutes. For that reason I think the graphics doesn't create much overhead. But it is good to know if batch processing is used to create video that disk video can work. All cores were active during the runs. I would also be interested in finding what the time would be when someone runs Linux natively and tries it with xfractint under a similar processor and memory system I have. Roger On 2009-06-15 14:33, JackOfTradeZ wrote:

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Hey Roger -

Send me the PAR or coordinates for the image you are testing, I will try it on my P3-933 and Athlon-64 Alienware systems. They are both screamers. I suspect you are having the same problem many do, you may have a blazing fast system (hardware) but there are many layers of hardware (and software!) translation to muddle thru when running old 8-16 bit programs on current systems, with WinXP or Vista, it kinda defeats the purpose of it all.