I've been reading this thread with considerable interest, since I haven't been able to run Fractint at more than 640X480 resolution for a few years, since upgrading to higher end video cards, and not being able to find appropriate VESA drivers for them. I've resorted to using Ultra Fractal to get decent images, but really prefer Fractint. I'm currently running Windows XP, NTFS hard drive formatting, and an ATI Radeon 9200SE-DT video card. After seeing mention of the makecfg. program, I found it in my download of Fractint (actually fradev 20.4, I think) , unzipped it in XP, and, while trying to figure out how to bring up a DOS window to run it, I clicked (still in XP) on the makecfg.exe file. A DOS window flashed on the screen for about 300 milliseconds and disappeared. Since something appeared to have happened, I tried running Fractint, and magically, I could select any of the VESA modes up to 1280X1024! Hi-res Fractint was back! So, in my case at least, Win XP and NTFS were apparently not a problem. I'm going to try the fix on a couple other computers I have access to, hopefully it will work as well on them. Thanks to all discussing this subject for providing info that let me get my Fractint back! :-) Bruce Sanborn ----- Original Message ----- From: "david" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> To: "Fractint and General Fractals Discussion" <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:10 AM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Seeking a vid adapter mode
Tony Hanmer wrote:
(Resending this as it seems not to have gone out to the Fractint list.) I'm running Fractint on a borrowed computer for a few months, and all I can get is 480x640 pixels of screen. Anyone out there have the video adapter mode for an NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 card, resolution 768x1024 or higher, to insert into Fractint.cfg?
IIRC, there's a little DOS utility program running around, either as part of the Fractint download or available at the Fractint website, that can probe and return the list of VESA modes that a display adapter supports ... I think you then have to put it into your Fractint.cfg file.
-- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community
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