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Hello all   
Been toying around in Mandelbulb 3d for some time while learning more about complex analysis, but have found the rendering to be a bit slow for my taste and also wanted more code options. My PC has a good graphics card so after looking around these forums I saw that fragmentarium is a good option for me since it can run on the graphics processor.

My computer has a nvidia GTX1050 which has the driver including openGL 4.5. I have confirmed that this is the openGL version via the program GpuTest 7.0.

However when I try running fragmentarium with my dedicated graphics, it stops responding only a few seconds after launch.  Fragmentarium works fine running on integrated graphics but isn't as high performance as I would like.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated 

I have not compiled it from source yet, which would make sense.
 Visual Studio would be a good option to build it in I imagine (on windows), so I'll give that a go and report back

Thanks for the advice 3dickulus    I really appreciate your time and the work you've put into fragmentarium.  I used the windows installer for your Fragmentarium v1.0.30 (nv-exr), which works when launched with integrated graphics but has same problem of immediately not responding when run on dedicated graphics.   

If you could send me the source code for your version would much appreciate it