On 7 Jan 02 at 16:53, Ken MacLean wrote:
David Jones wrote:
AGP and PCI boards are not supported.
Not true. I have Fractint working fine at my usual 1024x768x256 resolutions on the Duron boxes' PCI Voodoo3 card.
How did you do it??
Hmmm, before we go further - I run Fractint under OS/2. Fractint and W95 don't get along for me on the Tower (Elsa GLoria Synergy PCI card) - Fractint and W95 fight over the display and freeze. The Duron box, my main Fractint system now, runs the Voodoo3 card, but it's running OS/2 also, since Windows won't install on it.
I have a Voodoo3 PCI card, running on an ASUS P5A motherboard, but no such luck!
In OS/2, just set up a program object, and make sure to run Fractint in full screen mode. Sorry, can't help getting it working under Windows with the Voodoo3-based card.
I'm going to try to set up a FAT16 partition on my D drive, as was suggested earlier.
If you're going that far, shuffle your partitions around to put the DOS partition first, make it active, boot to it, format and install plain old DOS on it, and run Fractint under DOS. You'll see much faster rendering times, I'm sure!
Right, I'll try that. Thanks!
Of course, your system will *only* be running DOS when you run Fractint, since you'll have to boot to DOS. Under OS/2, I can start a DOS session thatg boots a real DOS image, instead of the emulated DOS that OS/2 and its stepchildren Windows provide. David gnome@hawaii.rr.com