Re: Color banding suddenly appeared

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From: Marshall
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 04:57

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"David Gartrell" <davsarg@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:cf667i$419$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Hi everyone,
>
> Can anyone helpme with this very annoying problem.  All of a sudden and for
> no apparent reason I've started getting a much poorer display while playing
> the game with the lighting made up of bands of color that change as I move
> around.  Its almost like i've gone down to 16bit bit display but my desktop
> is still on 32bit so i can't understand what has happened.  I haven't
> changed any of the settings. Does anyone know what could be causing the
> problem and how can i put it right?

Just because your Windows desktop is still at 32bit, doesn't mean the game is.
Dink around in its video settings and see what your colors are set to. Sounds
like 16bit posterization affect.
    -Marshall

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