re: Stuck in 16 color mode
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 8:46 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(1364 messages posted)
Can you get a deeper color pallette if you set a lower resolution? If so, then there's
probably no problem with the driver and it's just that your display adapter has too
little memory. Many older machines have only two or four MB of video RAM, so are
unable to support over 800x600 resolution at greter than 16 bit depth. Keep in mind
that doesn't mean just 16 colors though. You can get a lot of different colors with
16 bits per pixel. I'm refurbushing an eight year old PII-300 machine right now and
when using 800x600 can get 24 bit color, but when using 1024x768 it only does 16
bit. The display looks perfectly fine though at 16 bits/pixel. With a given amount
of video memory (unless you have lots of it), there's always a trade off between
resolution and color pallette depth.
On Monday, May 29, 2006 at 11:45 pm, Bill wrote:
>I can't get out of 16-color mode under the display settings. Even when I go and
change
>it to one of the other options it reverts right back to 16 colors. I have tried
reinstalling
>the video card driver and according to device manager there are no problems with
>it (no yellow exclamation point). I have also checked msconfig under the advanced
>settings to see if 640X480X16 was checked. It wasn't. I don't know what else to
do.
>I've tried searching on google for this problem and those were the two solutions
>that I found. Anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks.
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- Stuck in 16 color mode (Bill: Monday, May 29, 2006 at 11:45 pm)
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