A while back there was a discussion here of issues with running Fractint under Windows XP. Would that discussion be available anywhere? I now have XP and I can't get Fractint to give me any resolution above 640 x 480. Thanks. Bill Rossi http://members.aol.com/billatny/ http://www.arts4u.org/rossi/
Bill- I've been running XP Pro (and Fractint) since Mar 8, 2002 on a 788MHz Transmeta CPU on a Sony "PictureBook" PCG-C1MVP/M) --------------------------------------------------------------- BTW-anyone else out there running Fractint on this platform? --------------------------------------------------------------- and had no problems in the short term. Each time my FOTD failed, however, one of the periodic updates from Windows wouldfix it. (I get them automatically about 2x/week from MS). Any further questions feel free to address me off the "alt.bin" discusssion group. D. Freed ----- Original Message ----- From: <BillatNY@aol.com> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 9:47 AM Subject: [Fractint] Fractint and Windows XP
A while back there was a discussion here of issues with running Fractint under Windows XP. Would that discussion be available anywhere?
I now have XP and I can't get Fractint to give me any resolution above 640 x 480.
Thanks.
Bill Rossi http://members.aol.com/billatny/ http://www.arts4u.org/rossi/
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BillatNY@aol.com wrote:
A while back there was a discussion here of issues with running Fractint under Windows XP. Would that discussion be available anywhere?
I posted an item several months ago about someone that had gotten it to work, and they were willing to assist others if needed (see below). Even though they are a current member of this group, I do not believe they monitor it on a regular basis, so a private email might get better results (I was told that would be fine to do). _______________________________________________________________________ To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Fractint] FractInt under Windows XP Pro Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 23:02:28 -0500 I recently was in a conversation with someone about running FractInt under Microsoft's Windows XP Pro edition. And was told that they experienced a few problems at first, but now seems to be functioning quite fine. Here are two different emails (posted with permission) that state some of the specifics about the Property settings for FractInt under Win-XP: _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ From: "Steven A. Hessler" <shessler1@attbi.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:23:42 -0500 Fractint (V 20.0) works on my computer under WinXP Pro, using a Diamond Viper 550 video card, which uses the Nvidia compatible Riva TNT chipset. It Has 16mb video memory installed. (WinXP drivers used are NV4.sys and NV4.INI.) No Diamond-released XP drivers exist, although some Riva TNT generic XP drivers Released by third parties DO appear to work properly if installed, although They are NOT digitally signed by MS. (I never noticed any difference in performance of XP when using the generic drivers, which I found by searching the internet.) Fractint is started using a desktop icon. The memory options are conventional-- The Initial Environment is set to AUTO. No EMS is used. No XMS is used. Uses HMA is checked. MS-DOS protected-mode (DPMI) memory is set to AUTO. Under SCREEN settings, Fast ROM emulation and Dynamic memory allocation are Both checked. It's set to start up in Full Screen mode. Compatibility mode is NOT active. The Fractint video drivers that work are the SVGA/VESA AUTODETECT drivers (SF2-SF7). VESA STANDARD INTERFACE (SF8-SF9) also appear to work. Saving a fractal to GIF file works, saving the fractal normally. ALL OF THESE DRIVERS FUNCTION USING 256 COLOR MODE. Although some of the VESA True-Color drivers appear to work, they in fact appear to create fractals Using only one color-- blue. Experimenting with some of the EMS or XMS memory settings does not seem to Have any effect one way or the other on the program's performance or on the Performance of the video drivers. Before V. 20.0 came out, I also experimented with the last V19.x Release. It appeared to perform identically. Steve H. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ From: "Steven A. Hessler" <shessler1@attbi.com> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 18:08:28 -0500 I just downloaded the developer's version of Fractint, and much to my Amazement, all the VESA True-Color video drivers suddenly work properly Under XP Pro. ......(snipped other stuff)..... Regards, Steve H. _______________________________________________________________________ Sincerely, P.N.L. -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.fractalus.com/cgi-bin/theway?ring=fractals&id=43&go
WinXP is similar enough to Win2000 for this fix to probably work. I tried this "fix" on Win2000 and it works fine! Boot your PC with a Dos or Win98/95 Boot disk. Fierst confirm that you're using an Video card that still has the old style VESA registers, MAKEFCFG.EXE should be able to "see" the VESA register when in Dos or Win95/98. MAKEFCFG.EXE should then write a new FRACTCFG.CFG <> FRACTINT.CFG. Then reboot your system from the HDD with Win2000 or WinXP. You will then have to create a special DOS shell for FRACTINT.EXE and adjust the properties. TG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul N. Lee" <Paul.N.Lee@Worldnet.att.net> To: <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [Fractint] Fractint and Windows XP
BillatNY@aol.com wrote:
A while back there was a discussion here of issues with running Fractint under Windows XP. Would that discussion be available anywhere?
I posted an item several months ago about someone that had gotten it to work, and they were willing to assist others if needed (see below). Even though they are a current member of this group, I do not believe they monitor it on a regular basis, so a private email might get better results (I was told that would be fine to do).
_______________________________________________________________________ To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com
Subject: [Fractint] FractInt under Windows XP Pro
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 23:02:28 -0500
I recently was in a conversation with someone about running FractInt
under Microsoft's Windows XP Pro edition. And was told that they
experienced a few problems at first, but now seems to be functioning
quite fine.
Here are two different emails (posted with permission) that state some
of the specifics about the Property settings for FractInt under Win-XP:
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
From: "Steven A. Hessler" <shessler1@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 15:23:42 -0500
Fractint (V 20.0) works on my computer under WinXP Pro, using a Diamond
Viper 550 video card, which uses the Nvidia compatible Riva TNT
chipset. It Has 16mb video memory installed. (WinXP drivers used are
NV4.sys and NV4.INI.)
No Diamond-released XP drivers exist, although some Riva TNT generic XP
drivers Released by third parties DO appear to work properly if
installed, although They are NOT digitally signed by MS.
(I never noticed any difference in performance of XP when using the
generic drivers, which I found by searching the internet.)
Fractint is started using a desktop icon. The memory options are
conventional-- The Initial Environment is set to AUTO. No EMS is used.
No XMS is used. Uses HMA is checked. MS-DOS protected-mode (DPMI)
memory is set to AUTO.
Under SCREEN settings, Fast ROM emulation and Dynamic memory allocation
are Both checked.
It's set to start up in Full Screen mode. Compatibility mode is NOT
active.
The Fractint video drivers that work are the SVGA/VESA AUTODETECT
drivers (SF2-SF7). VESA STANDARD INTERFACE (SF8-SF9) also appear to
work. Saving a fractal to GIF file works, saving the fractal normally.
ALL OF THESE DRIVERS FUNCTION USING 256 COLOR MODE. Although some of
the VESA True-Color drivers appear to work, they in fact appear to
create fractals Using only one color-- blue.
Experimenting with some of the EMS or XMS memory settings does not seem
to Have any effect one way or the other on the program's performance or
on the Performance of the video drivers.
Before V. 20.0 came out, I also experimented with the last V19.x
Release. It appeared to perform identically.
Steve H.
_______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
From: "Steven A. Hessler" <shessler1@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 18:08:28 -0500
I just downloaded the developer's version of Fractint, and much to my
Amazement, all the VESA True-Color video drivers suddenly work properly
Under XP Pro. ......(snipped other stuff).....
Regards,
Steve H.
_______________________________________________________________________
Sincerely,
P.N.L. -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.fractalus.com/cgi-bin/theway?ring=fractals&id=43&go
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