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Re: Display Colours



>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew  <andrewj@tne.net.au> writes:

    Andrew> I am wondering how many colours executor supports.  in the
    Andrew> control panel, there are options for 16 and 24 bit colour,
    Andrew> but they are greyed out.

Executor does not support those color depths.  We put the buttons in
the preferences panel in anticipation of maybe supporting them before
Executor 2 hit "feature freeze", but we didn't end up having time.  We
will remove those misleading buttons from our preferences panel before
Executor 2 ships.

    Andrew> I have a Matrox Millenium 4 mb WRAM video card, so I
    Andrew> should be able to access all the colour depths.  Also, i
    Andrew> can't get executor to run at 800x600.  The screen appears
    Andrew> in the wrong place and the mouse pointer leaves four
    Andrew> streams of garbage on the screen wherever it moves.
    Andrew> 1024x768 works fine though.

That's very strange!  I would guess a bug in the board's VBE
implementation, but that seems like a pretty big bug for Matrox to let
slip through.  Hmmm.  Do they have a web site where you can check for
driver updates or anything?

    Andrew> I have not yet installed q12 - judging by the amount of
    Andrew> problems people have been reporting about it, i have not
    Andrew> been game to install it.  You might have to release one
    Andrew> more patch before beta, Ardi...

I think you should install q12 (perhaps saving a copy of your old
"executor.exe" first to be safe).  q12 fixes far more problems than it
introduces.

    Andrew> Any help with the display problems would be greatly
    Andrew> appreciated.

Unfortunately, I don't think we'll have time to track down your
800x600 problem remotely before Executor 2 ships.  At least you can
use 1024x768, so it doesn't seem critically important to fix it.

-Mat

P.S.  I've heard that the Matrox Millenium has VBE 2.0 built in (which
      is very cool).  Is that true?  "executor -info" will tell you.


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