I'm not sure you can fix it at Fractint's end at all. I used to experience that back in the days when I was dualbooting between Windows98SE and OS/2. Fractint ran fine under OS/2, with no problems whatsoever. NOTHING I tried with Fractint under W98 made a difference. The problem was in the Windows video drivers, not in Fractint - Windows would fight over the video hardware and die. It was specific to the Windows drivers for the video hardware - other people were (at the time) running Fractint under Windows98SE without any problems. That was one of the reasons I quite using Windows (that and the fact that Fractint could bring Windows to a standstill for any other uses when it was generating an image to disk, and not bother OS/2 at all). When I do fractals here now, I use XFractint. It would be particularly lovely with a dual monitor set up - put the text mode command window on one monitor, and stretch the image window out across the other monitor ... -- david gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community ---- Robert Baker <mandy@rjbaker.fastmail.co.uk> wrote:

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:46:56 -0500, "Jonathan Osuch" <osuchj@avalon.net> said:

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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...

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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.