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display settings
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 12:41 am
Posted by smabid
(1 messages posted)
Hi guyz.
I am having some sily problem regarding the display options/properties in windows
98. Actually i have an application for windopws 98 which have the requirement of
1280 x 1024 reolution in 24 bit colors. now i can adjust the resolution of the system
accordingly. But for the color setting, i only get the options of "256 color", "16
bit", "32 bit". I tried to execute the application with all those color seting with
the desired resolution, but i always get the error indicateing to change the resolution
to 1280 x 1024 by 24.
Is there any way i can set the color seting to 24, instead of 32?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Abid
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re: display settings
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 7:12 am
Posted by Steve
(18665 messages posted)
I use to have a old Computer that supported 24 bit color, so maybe you can locate
a old Video Card that supports that color depth.
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re: display settings
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Posted by Kiwi
(2096 messages posted)
Don't you think that it may be more of a function of the drivers, so if a video card
does have 32-Bit Color settings, it ought to be capable of 24-Bit as well, with an
older set of video drivers, perhaps?
Whichever it is, however, technically, it's not an annoyance in Windows, but in the
hardware.
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Kiwi
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On Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 7:12 am, Steve wrote:
>I use to have a old Computer that supported 24 bit color
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re: display settings
Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Posted by Steve
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I agree it is a Driver issue, but just doubt He find one.
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re: display settings
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 4:57 am
Posted by Jacob6601
(1608 messages posted)
Try using regedit to change the "BitsPerPixel"="16" value (to 24) under the
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Config\0001\Display\Settings] key. Re-boot. Hopefully your monitor
will display in 16 bit but the app will "see" 24 bit in the registry. If you have
problems seeing the screen, boot to safe mode and change it back.
NOTE: I don't have a 98 pc handy, but that 95 registry entry should be close.
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re: Video Driver issue, not Windows' own fault
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Posted by Kiwi
(2096 messages posted)
It's almost a week later, and the OP never returned. If he took my suggestion, he
asked about drivers versus 24 Bit color on a video card message site. Admittedly,
the query was a jumbled, misspelled, bit of a mess, but the OP did find THIS place.
So if the PC involved is an old one, with an old video card, then the odds are good
that somewhere out there, Google or Yahoo can find out where, someone saved a copy
of the old driver.
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Kiwi
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On Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 6:40 pm, Steve wrote:
>I agree it is a Driver issue, but just doubt He find one.
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