Fastest Fractint Setup
Hi All, I have been wondering what makes for a fast Fractint setup nowadays? I have two setups for Fractint under Vista 64. One is using DosBox. The other is xfractint running under Ubuntu 64 under VirtualBox. Both have their quirks, however each generates the various FOTD fractals correctly. They are just way slower than I'd expect them to be considering the hardware I have. What I would like for the group to do is pick one of the FOTD's which is computationally intensive. Then those who'd like to participate generate said fractal and report times with a system description. Also any tweaks or suggested improvements in system setup are welcome. Roger
Vortex Swirling wrote:
I have been wondering what makes for a fast Fractint setup nowadays?
A real fast PC running straight DOS. :-) But I use two machines for the rendering of Jim's FOTDs: • A 10-year old P3 running Win-98. • An 7-year old P4 running Win-XP.
What I would like for the group to do is pick one of the FOTD's which is computationally intensive. Then those who'd like to participate generate said fractal and report times with a system description.
The recent "Seahorse Valley-12" has a rather lengthy calc-time. We already know how long it took on Jim's machine. Too bad FractInt will not run on my double QuadCore 64-bit 16-MB RAM machine. Up until a couple of months ago, it rated the highest in speed doing similar fractal rendering tests in two other email lists.
Also any tweaks or suggested improvements in system setup are welcome.
I can make a few when it comes to the Windows OS. There are so many things that get established a certain way with the default settings. And they really slow machines down. Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/
A few questions , 1, Does the WinFract formula parser recognize if ( ) else endif 2. Can PovRay be used with WinFract or Fractint . 3. Is a data output , other than an image , available from WinFract , Fractint . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul N. Lee" <Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:33 AM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Fastest Fractint Setup Vortex Swirling wrote:
I have been wondering what makes for a fast Fractint setup nowadays?
A real fast PC running straight DOS. :-) But I use two machines for the rendering of Jim's FOTDs: • A 10-year old P3 running Win-98. • An 7-year old P4 running Win-XP.
What I would like for the group to do is pick one of the FOTD's which is computationally intensive. Then those who'd like to participate generate said fractal and report times with a system description.
The recent "Seahorse Valley-12" has a rather lengthy calc-time. We already know how long it took on Jim's machine. Too bad FractInt will not run on my double QuadCore 64-bit 16-MB RAM machine. Up until a couple of months ago, it rated the highest in speed doing similar fractal rendering tests in two other email lists.
Also any tweaks or suggested improvements in system setup are welcome.
I can make a few when it comes to the Windows OS. There are so many things that get established a certain way with the default settings. And they really slow machines down. Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/ _______________________________________________ Fractint mailing list Fractint@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fractint
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