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- Subject: Re: Graphics Accelerator Cards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.061910.46404@datamark.co.nz>
- From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:19:10 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.213906.504@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> <1992Nov19.094530.5007@news.uni-stuttgart.de> <PERFRED.92Nov20171529@gullregn.idt.unit.no>
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- In article <PERFRED.92Nov20171529@gullregn.idt.unit.no> perfred@gullregn.idt.unit.no (Per Fredrik Solberg) writes:
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- >> For a quick fix, try switching to the plain vanilla VGA-driver included
- >> with Windows. That'll only give you 16 colours, but at the same time it
- >> reduces the amount of info on the screen by a factor of 16. Consequently
- > ^^
- >Not quite. 256 colors require 1 byte per pixel, whereas 16 colors
- >require 4 bits per pixel; thus, the amount of video data is only
- >reduced by a factor of 2.
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- Interestingly, I have found that 1024*768*256 is faster on my vanilla
- Trident card that 1024*768*16.
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- I guess there's something to be said for bytes around...
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