From: Wizzle Subject: Re: (fractint) Matrox problems... Date: 06 Apr 190 07:14:19 -0700 Oh goody goody goody!!! Not only do I get to buy the Matrox card but I can rub the NT problem in the nose of my smart-*ss kid who thinks NT is the be all and end all. Love it!!!! I'm resisting his push to NT-ize my new puter. Angela At 11:23 AM 4/6/98 +0100, you wrote: >skydyes@juno.com wrote: >> > > >> No! Stop! Don't buy the Matrox Millenium II just yet! Sorry, > >> The damn things won't run fractint at anything >> over (I think) SF3, Now, this may be a >> Windows NT's fault, it's more than likely, > > >Just to add in a positive note here, I've just accuired a matrox Millenium II >with 8Mb and it works perfectly from dos, just select Sylvie's Matrox 1600x1200 >mode from the video mode list and bingo! ultra high res fractals :-) > >>From NT though is a different story as you've discovered, HAL says "I'm sorry, I can't let you do that"! >(techie joke alert! .. HAL = Hardware Abstraction Layer = part of NT that sits between applications and the actual >hardware of the machine and causes confusion >when dos apps like fractint try and access the video cards directly ) > >I find the same problem with my NT machine at work which has a different video >card (cirrus logic ) , it won't run a full screen dos session any higher than 640x480x256 ... which is the maximum that >was available on the original VGA cards which is what the HAL is probably designed around. > >Disk video should work however so you can use the low res mode to search for the >right image, switch to disk video to render it, then display the resultant file using a windows image viewing program... >a bit long winded but workable. > >Hope this helps a bit, > Robin. > >- >------------------------------------------------------------ >Thanks for using Fractint, The Fractals and Fractint Discussion List >Post Message: fractint@xmission.com >Get Commands: majordomo@xmission.com "help" >Administrator: twegner@phoenix.net >Unsubscribe: majordomo@xmission.com "unsubscribe fractint" > > - Thanks for using Fractint, The Fractals and Fractint Discussion List Post Message: fractint@xmission.com Get Commands: majordomo@xmission.com "help" Administrator: twegner@phoenix.net Unsubscribe: majordomo@xmission.com "unsubscribe fractint"