That's not the reason why I suggested that you boot with a Dos or Win95/98 Floppy when trying to reconfigure a new Fractint.cfg file with the makefcfg.exe utility. Many Fractint users have complained that when run under either Win2000 or WinXP, makefcfg.exe might not see the Vesa registers of your video card. If makefcfg.exe can't see your video card's Vesa registers, then the fractint.cfg file won't be able to point Fractint.exe to your video card's Vesa registers. Booting from a Dos or Win95/98 Floppy will hopefully "trick" makefcfg.exe into seeing the vesa registers and it will write you a new frractint.cfg file. Then you can remove the floppy, reboot in Win2000/WinXP and hopefully Fractint will now "see" the Vesa registers of your video card. Then you can make & configure yourself a "Dos Box" to run Fractint.exe under Win2000/WinXP etc.... All the best, TG ----- Original Message ----- From: <BillatNY@aol.com> To: <tgparker@worldnet.att.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Fractint and Windows XP
Tony,
Thanks for the response. Under Windows XP, as I understand it, it shouldn't be necessary to boot to DOS. You can actually create a config file for each DOS program and it will look for that when you click on the program icon.
As soon as I get a chance, I'm going to try the settings mentioned in Paul's posting. If that doesn't work, I'll try your approach. Thanks!
Bill