I used to run it under W95A, but success or failure of running DOS Fractint under W9x seemed to be heavily influenced by the video adaptor and display drivers being used. I had one old SVGA card that worked fine with Fractint under W9x, but when it died, both cards I've used since then (Elsa GLoria Synergy and NVidia GeForce2) and drivers would fight with Windows over the display and hang the machine. On the other hand, DOS Fractint and the Elsa and GeForce2 cards work fine under OS/2. With the Windows 2000/XP series, though, the OS completely controls access to the system hardware. So if the Windows drivers don't support a particular resolution, Fractint cannot access it at all. Some XP users here have reported only being able to work in glorious 640x480x16 color modes. BTW, you might try starting a full-screen command line session and trying Fractint in that. XP may not support running a graphical DOS app inside a window on its desktop! If you're going to multiboot, how about a FreeDOS partition with Fractint? If your video card supports VESA, then Fractint should be able to use it very well under DOS. -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com Marc Reinig wrote:
It's been a while since I worked with Fractint and I want to start again.
I tried it with my command window on XP and only the menu would run. I suppose the disk mode would work, but I want to see it ;=)
I'm configuring a new multi-boot system and want to make sure I can run on it. What Windows OS can I use, or do I need to install DOS?