PCMASPEC@cs.com wrote:
I am trying to run FRACTINT 20.0.....
First off, you may wish to get a more current release to run with. Here are some links that may be of use: http://www.fractint.org/ (latest Developer's version) http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/ (older official release ver.) http://www.Nahee.com/Software/Wins1821.Zip (older Windows ver.) http://www.deleeuw.com.au/ "ManPWin" (loosely based Windows ver.)
.....in a machine that has a Pentium 5 processor, 512M of memory and MicroSoft XP Pro as the operating system.
The problem is with XP and what it controls. You could create a Win-98 Boot Disk and run FractInt that way. You can get all the files that come on the distributed Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Boot Disk from the following location. They are in a ZIP file and must be extracted to a floppy: http://www.Nahee.com/Software/ Look for a file called "Win98-SE_Boot.zip".
My video chips are GeForce4 MX440, BIOS 4.17.00.28. Fractint works at 640x480x256, but when I try to choose 800x600x256, I get two clicks and a blank screen out of the monitor. ESC takes me back to the Fractint menu. 800x600 is my normal screen resolution for everything else under WinXP Pro. Can anyone tell what I need to do to get this to work?
You may wish to look into running the "MAKEFCFG.EXE" program to see if that will create the correct configurations needed for your system. That program reads VESA Video BIOS and writes the "FRACTINT.CFG" file with VESA video modes. You might also need to right-click the FRACTINT.EXE module and change some of the Property settings to have it run more closely to an older Windows OS. And, you might need to create a FAT partition, since NTFS may also cause some problems. There are no set 'fixes' these days when it comes to running FractInt on the newer machines using Win-XP. Everyone that eventually gets it working usually does so by making adustments until it begins to function correctly. Some individuals resort to using disk-video and batch-mode, then view the output with a graphic editor. Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/