Below is a list of prerequisites you must meet and steps you must take to\u00a0get Fractorium installed and running on\u00a0your system.<\/p>\n
Fractorium is available only as a 64-bit program, which means it needs a 64-bit operating system to run. For Windows, this means\u00a0Windows 7 or later. For Linux, this means recent versions of Ubuntu x64, such as Mint<\/a>.<\/p>\n Although not officially supported, some users have reported success on debian by following these steps:<\/p>\n Using the GPU to render is only supported on GCN or later AMD cards and Fermi or later Nvidia cards. If you do not have one of these, you can still run the program, but all processing will be done on the CPU. While not as fast as using a GPU, the CPU is still reasonably fast.<\/p>\n Intel HD grahics are not supported as a GPU device.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fractorium makes use of special features on your\u00a0graphics card, so before installing you need to ensure your drivers are up to date.<\/p>\n Before installing Fractorium, go to the website for your graphics card manufacturer, download and install the latest drivers.<\/p>\n Intel makes a dummy driver for systems without sufficient hardware which is needed for the program to run.<\/p>\n If you’ve already installed the latest drivers and still\u00a0get a message saying that OpenCL.dll is missing from your system, it means your hardware is unsupported. In that case, download and install\u00a0one of the top two drivers on this<\/a>\u00a0page, depending on your OS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Install Fractorium using the installer which will place all files needed to run in\u00a0 In addition to the executable, the palette file, settings file and a sample theme file all reside here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Run the program from the shortcut created on the desktop.<\/p>\n The default configuration on the first run is to use the CPU. If it starts up with no errors and shows a randomly generated flame in the main window, then installation was successful.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
sudo make install<\/code>. You may not run it in place.<\/li>\n\n
sudo apt purge mesa-opencl-icd pocl-opencl-icd<\/code> to remove unwanted platforms that confuse the OpenCL loader system. Use clinfo<\/code> from the command line to check for a successful installation. If so, you should see AMD-APP in the Platform Version.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nHardware<\/h3>
Drivers<\/h3>
AMD and Nvidia users<\/h4>\n
Non-AMD or Nvidia users<\/h4>\n
Installation<\/h3>
C:\\Users\\[user]\\AppData\\Roaming\\Fractorium<\/code><\/p>\nFirst Run<\/h3>
Enabling the GPU<\/h3>