I've been using an Nvidia Gforce 4200i (with XP) for more than a year now, with no problems. I have noticed though, that an alt-tab back to the desktop is quite slow compared to other cards. A function of the card's 64 MB of memory perhaps... Russell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Wegner" <twegner@swbell.net> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:51:48 -0600 To: BillatNY@aol.com,Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Fractint] Fractint with AGP??

I'd also be interested in how Nvidia based boards work with Fractint. Does anyone have a board based on Nvidia Gforce 5200? I'm not a gamer so I don't need the latest and greatest 3D, so I figure a board about like an Nvidia Gforce 5200 would be about right if it has good VESA VBE support.

I have put a vesa test program here:

http://tim.fractint.org/VESAINFO.TXT

This dumps out a whole lot of information using:

vesainfo -v > yourboard.txt

Of course the makefcfg.exe program gives similar information.

Maybe we should build up a database of boards known to work OK with Fractint. I'm not sure how long before VESA VBE is no longer found in video boards ...

Tim

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