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re: Widescreen Monitor Help
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 4:03 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chris
(3 messages posted)
Hello
It's actually (I believe) an issue with colour depth. I suspect you're running
the display in 8bit colour (256 colours) and you probably can't go any higher because
of the high resolution (for your video card) you've chosen.
If you were to change the background colour of your desktop to a colour which
does not require on-screen dithering - a process which simulates new colours by mixing
pixels of different available colours - you wouldn't see these darker dots. Those
darker dots are there to make the overall shade of the background darker, except
that it doesn't work particularly well because it is done so badly. (Risc OS on Acorn
platforms did it a lot better in low colour modes).
The problem could be resolved with a video card equipped with more video memory
as this will increase the range of colour depths available to you.
If you can't raise the colour depth beyond 256 colours then I suspect your current
graphics card is a 1mb model. You'll need 2mb for 16bit colour and 4mb for 24bit
colour.
Regards,
Chris
On Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 9:35 am, Auggie wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have just bought an HP w2207, 22-inch, widescreen LCD monitor. I used it on an
>XP computer and it was beautiful. Now I am trying to use it with my Windows 98 system
>but I am having trouble.
>
>I installed all drivers etc. and the lowest resolution option possible is 1280x768
>that is proportional and keeps the 16:9 aspect. The thing is, the text is very strange.
>At times it looks like the computer ran out of printer ink to display the text/colors
>correctly. I would love to use this resolution or something a little lower but there
>is nothing that works. Here's a couple examples of my text issue.
>
>ICON
>http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9009/mycompha9.gif
>
>MENU
>http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2846/startmenbd0.th.gif
>
>Any suggestions?
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