You're welcome! I think the 2048x2048 is a disk video mode accessible from the Fractint list of video modes. Alt-shift-F6, IIRC. Doesn't depend on display resolution. Mine's only 1920x1080. (Oh for a lovely 4K display!) On Jul 29, 2017 05:31, John Wilson <1stdiscus@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you David. I just tried your reference fractal,(the marksjulia) and got an identical time to yours... 1m 03.16 secs, actually. Seems I'm in the ballpark. The closest size I have to your disk video is 1920x1440x256, which rendered in 17m 08.15. My display is only 1366x768 however.
On 29 July 2017 at 01:04, david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
On 07/28/2017 01:50 PM, John Wilson wrote:
What's a known execution timing for running a Fractint fractal? I'd like to know how my new system stacks up. Please?
Installed Fractint in DOSBox on my brand new laptop, which is surprising me with its agility, under 64-bit Windows 7 Pro with a 500G SSD. I was particularly pleased to find that the touch pad does a fine job in moving fractal selections about... smoother than a mouse. My only problem is one which has been with me forever... can't set up PCTOOLS to put saved gifs into the correct directory. I have a mental block on that subject!
Hmm, maybe just pick one or more of the standard included fractals at some specific image resolution and note the Calculation Time shown time after it's generated? (Press TAB after it's complete to see the info.)
I just ran the marksjulia with default values at 1280x1024x256 colors under DOSBox 0.74 on 64bit Debian Linux and Fractint reports it took 1m3.22s. I have a 2.4GHz i7 (4 cores, 8 with hyperthreading) laptop, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD.
Just for fun, I generated the same fractal in 2048x2048 disk-video mode while doing other things on the puter. It took 26m44.26s.
For comparison, XFractint 20.04.10 (native Linux Fractint) rendered the marksjulia at 1920x1026x256 in .17 seconds. But it used floating point.
I don't know how to make XFractint render images to disk video. Starting it with the "-disk" option still leaves the image size restricted to the size of the XFractint window. Specifying geometry of 2048x2048 gave me a big window, but the disk rendering still showed only 1920x1026 image size. :(
David W. Jones gnome@hawaii.rr.com