Fractal eXtreme: Release Notes and Plans

Fractal eXtreme: Release Notes and Plans: "Fractal eXtreme was last updated April 2008.
Version 2.000

Version 2.0 of Fractal eXtreme is a significant rewrite. Fractal eXtreme may not look dramatically different, but there are a lot of changes under the hood.

The biggest changes are Vista™ support and 64-bit support. 64-bit support is particularly exciting because it allows deep-zoom calculations to run up to about 5 times faster! When this is coupled with other optimizations to the deep zoom code the 64-bit version can do deep-zoom calculations about 6.5 times faster than the previous version, and the new 32-bit version can do deep-zoom calculations almost twice as fast as the previous version. With a multi-core 64-bit system running version 2.0 you can turn renders that used to take weeks into just a matter of days."

While version 2.0 is a significant change and represents hundreds of hours of work, we are releasing this update to our existing customers free of charge.