JackOfTradez, What about the monitor? Are you using an older CRT or an LCD? So far we have one vote for DOSBox and one for an older machine. I'm interested that you prefer 9x to XP. Jonathan has had good luck on Xp, I've had less so. You may be right that On XP it comes down to drivers and hardware. Since you mentioned booting DOS, did you ever run Fractint from DOS? Thanks, Tim On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:29 PM, <JackOfTradeZ@comcast.net> wrote:
. Albrecht - I know how you feel <g> about lack of feedback, but that doesn't mean people aren't interested! I'm sure many (like me) download and render the formulas w/o necessarily commenting all the time; I don't expect everyone who downloads one of my animations to jump online and comment how awesome they are, (although I know they are awesome and just a little praise would not hurt...<g>). The multifractal formulas are way-cool; I have tried zooms and parameter animation tests but nothing worth doing (yet); also they take LONG to render. As for the question about FractInt platforms, I will repeat that an old Win9X machine is your best bet. Pentium-2,3 at 500-900 MHz or thereabouts. For current systems, I have found that WinXP itself isn't the problem - it seems to be the hardware a/o chipset configuration. Athlon64 chips are good, Intel not so good. I have and have had several systems over the years; the one I currently am using (Alienware Area51, purchased in 2006) has NVIDIA GeForce 8600, and AMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ -15807.3 Mhz. It is the fastest fractint machine I have ever had - just click on the file in windows and it opens and runs in a command shell. Yet my previous WinXP Gateway system was absolutely unusable with fractint. With both of these I would boot up with a DOS 7.0 boot CD and run on a FAT32 partition. .
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