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Old September 15th 05, 09:17 PM
Mike M
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John,

The various colour depths available are a function of the video card and
its drivers. Have you downloaded and installed the latest Win Me
compatible drivers from the manufacturer's web site? If yes and you still
aren't offered 32-bit colour then either the card or the drivers don't
support that colour depth.
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John Mullan wrote:

i have reformattes my fathers pc and reinstalled windows millenium
editon. after re installing the o/s i don't have an option for 32 bit
color in the display properties dialogue box.

can anyone please please help.

thank you.
john.


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Old September 15th 05, 10:37 PM
Ron Martell
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"Mike M" wrote:

John,

The various colour depths available are a function of the video card and
its drivers. Have you downloaded and installed the latest Win Me
compatible drivers from the manufacturer's web site? If yes and you still
aren't offered 32-bit colour then either the card or the drivers don't
support that colour depth.



Just to expand a bit on this.

The available colour depth can also be dependent on the screen
resolution setting if there is only a small amount of video RAM
available.

For example, if your video card has only 8 mb of RAM you may only be
able to get 16 bit colour if you have the resolution at 1600 x 1200
but if you decreased the resolution to 1024 x 768 then you would get
32 bit colour available as well. This is not something that is
encountered very often today with the larger amounts of video RAM
being used but it was a concern with older systems.

Good luck

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Old September 15th 05, 11:26 PM
Mike M
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Thanks Ron, a good point I failed to mention.
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Mike


Ron Martell wrote:

Just to expand a bit on this.

The available colour depth can also be dependent on the screen
resolution setting if there is only a small amount of video RAM
available.

For example, if your video card has only 8 mb of RAM you may only be
able to get 16 bit colour if you have the resolution at 1600 x 1200
but if you decreased the resolution to 1024 x 768 then you would get
32 bit colour available as well. This is not something that is
encountered very often today with the larger amounts of video RAM
being used but it was a concern with older systems.


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Old September 16th 05, 04:45 AM
John Mullan
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Default 32 bit resolution option missing in display properties dialogue box.

i have reformattes my fathers pc and reinstalled windows millenium editon.
after re installing the o/s i don't have an option for 32 bit color in the
display properties dialogue box.

can anyone please please help.

thank you.
john.


 




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