Richard Giroux: I personally am not happy with the way Fractint runs in a Win2K or WinXp Dos box. Try running Fractint from a msdos 7.xx (Win95/Win98) Or Create a multiboot menu whereby you can boot directly to MSDOS 7.xx I recently posted complete directions how to do create a multiboot system on Win2k and/or WinXp with special configuration files & everything else you need to do the "hack". Once you create such a multiboot menu you can switch between Ms-Dos 7.xx or your Windows (Win95, Win98, Win2k, WinXp) system. I'll either repost it to this EG or send it to you privately. Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Giroux To: Fractint@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:56 PM Subject: [Fractint] Fast and... slow Hi, Just a (maybe) technical question... I have observed that on many ".par" (from fotd) projects that are rather slowly rendered on my computer, there is an "accidental" way to speed up the rendering. That is just by pressing a key (which has no function in fractint, like "shift", to not disturb otherwise the rendering). The effect is that the rendering process seems to speed up for a while (one or two lines of pixels), then slows again. Is it caused by some memory settings ? I am under WinNT4, P3 / 533MHz, 576 Mb of RAM. Of course, Fractint20 runs under the DOS window of my WinNT. Thanks, RG ------- Un message en attend toujours un autre... Vous pouvez me rejoindre par: nrgiroux@sympatico.ca et/ou kallyana@yahoo.ca (web) kalyana@gosympatico.ca (web)