re: Stuck in 16 color mode Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 11:32 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Bill (9 messages posted) No, I tried to change the resolution, but it just reverts back to 800X600 with 16 colors. On Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 8:46 am, Larry wrote: >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. > > > Written in response to: re: Stuck in 16 color mode (Larry: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 8:46 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Stuck in 16 color mode (Bill: Mon, May 29, 2006, 11:45 pm) re: Stuck in 16 color mode (gewg_: Tue, May 30, 2006, 12:07 am) re: Stuck in 16 color mode (Bill: Tue, May 30, 2006, 11:22 am) re: Stuck in 16 color mode (Larry: Tue, May 30, 2006, 8:46 am) re: Stuck in 16 color mode (Bill: Tue, May 30, 2006, 11:32 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum