games only in 256 color in win95

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4 total messages Started by js... Julian Suen Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00

#5623

Author: js... Julian Suen
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00

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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. 


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Re: games only in 256 color in win95

#5624

Author: smi... William Wesley Gray
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.

Re: games only in 256 color in win95

#5625

Author: ste... Steve Thompson
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.


	You can do 16 million in 95.  You just have to have a driver that 
supports it.  I`m running the S3 968 driver in 64K colors right now.

Re: games only in 256 color in win95

#5628

Author: jo... John Robert Williams
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:00

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Julian Suen (js...@orion.sfsu.edu) wrote:
> 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. 

Game are traditionally written to use 256 color for various reasons, and 
even if you could run Windows in a truecolor mode, you wouldn't want to, 
beause the game is still written for 256 colors, and using a non-256 
color video mode will hurt the game's performance.

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