I've avoided the view menu crash and successfully used disk video modes by editing fractint.cfg. I added the final four modes (CF6 through CF9) for generating high resolution images for display on a 1920 x 1200 widescreen monitor, as below. First of the four modes targets the native desktop resolution, last three are respectively 2x, 4x and 10x the native resolution for anti-aliasing the generated image.
;key name of adapter/mode | AX | BX | CX | DX |mode| x | y |clr| comments | driver
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F2 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 320, 240,256,,gdi
F3 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 400, 300,256,,gdi
F4 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 600, 450,256,,gdi
F5 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 640, 480,256,,gdi
F6 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 800, 600,256,,gdi
F7 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1024, 768,256,,gdi
F8 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1200, 900,256,,gdi
F9 ,Win32 GDI Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1280, 960,256,,gdi
SF2 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 320, 200,256,,disk
SF3 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 320, 400,256,,disk
SF4 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 360, 480,256,,disk
SF5 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 640, 400,256,,disk
SF6 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 640, 480,256,,disk
SF7 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 800, 600,256,,disk
SF8 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1024, 768,256,,disk
SF9 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1280, 1024,256,,disk
CF1 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1024, 1024,256,,disk
CF2 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1600, 1200,256,,disk
CF3 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 2048, 2048,256,,disk
CF4 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 4096, 4096,256,,disk
CF5 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 8192, 8192,256,,disk
CF6 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 1920, 1200,256,,disk
CF7 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 3840, 2400,256,,disk
CF8 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 7680, 4800,256,,disk
CF9 ,Win32 Disk Video , 0, 0, 0, 0, 19,19200,12000,256,,disk
These all work fine for me.
One other quirk to be aware of is that Beta 5 will often not render with the correct aspect ratio, i.e. it will stretch images along the X axis. The problem is documented in this bug report:
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http://iteratedynamics.codeplex.com/workitem/12To work around that problem, press Z to display the type-specific parameters page then press F6 or F7 to display the image co-ordinates page in "center-mag" mode. Then in the X Magnification Factor field adjust the currently displayed value to y/x, where x and y are the selected video mode x and y dimensions in pixels. So, for example, I enter 0.75 if I have selected 1280 x 960 and 0.625 if I have selected my 1920 x 1200 disk video mode or one of my three anti-aliasing modes.