On 12/30/2014 08:40 AM, JackOfTradeZ@comcast.net wrote:
. Does anyone have experience or ever use the "Disk Video" mode? I am currently rendering an animation based on 8th order Julia set; it is "circular" and I wanted a "square" video screen, like 1024x1024 or such. I could find none in the usual *.cfg files. But I retrieved the "big" file from the FractInt distribution zip, and it has a 2048x2048 mode, which is good [large high resolution - what I want], but it is a "disk-video" mode only. I gave it a try and it is FAST !!! Only thing is you can't see the image rendering, just a screen with some information updating. Small sacrifice. And it runs in windows !!! [XP and 2K]. And it can be a "window", not full screen; I just see the GIF files being created in the directory one by one. I can multitask also while it is running, although performance sometimes choppy. All I do is double click my BAT file and let it rip - awesome!! I CAN'T BELIEVE I just discover this after using FractInt almost 20 years now !!
Fractint is rich with features, one reason why it's still my choice despite the competition.
It doesn't appear to use the video adapter [graphics card, hardware] directly, just CPU rendering. I let it run for several hours and noted no significant temperature increase either on CPU, chipset, or NVidia card with my hardware monitor.
The thought just occurred to me that maybe you could run multiple Fractint disk-video sessions, and if your OS is smart of allocating CPU cores, each session could be running on its own core. So today's multicore CPUs could really blast through generating multiple fractals.
Merry Christmas, Happy HoliDaZe, and a Fractal New Year everyone! JoTz
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