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Article #5624Re: games only in 256 color in win95
From: smi... William Wesley Gray
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 00:00
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pete...@bright.net wrote: : In article <437j28$a...@news.csus.edu>, <js...@orion.sfsu.edu> writes: : > all win95 games require you to run in 256 color mode, is there a way to run : > them in true color modes? i have a ATI winturbo card, and using the win95 : > build-in drivers. : > : I normally run in 16 thousand and to my surprise Windows 95 only offered me : 256..so i called Microsoft. : There response...when we can find a way to support more colors, we'll put out : the drivers..till then, live with it. : I'm not sure what you are running, but 256 is all you get. : Franklin P. Thats not true for all video cards. You can of course get 32K or 16M colors from Win95 if your drivers support it. I run my ATI GUP mach32 in 16M colors under Win95 all the time. Graphics intensive games don't like > 256 colors because there is so much more data to move around.
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From: smi...@am.UCSC.EDU (William Wesley Gray) Subject: Re: games only in 256 color in win95 Date: 1995/09/14 Message-ID: <437tp3$bub@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 110053918 references: <437j28$adj@news.csus.edu> <NEWTNews.4782.811047930.petersen@petersen.brutus.bright.net> organization: University of California, Santa Cruz reply-to: smi...@cats.ucsc.edu newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit