ralph1976 Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 how can i set the color depth in mdk 9.2 to 32 bit or is that not possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 There is no 32 bit color scheme AFAIK. What those "32 bit" means is 24 bit color plus 8 bit for alpha channel (or something like that). 24 bit color is 2^24 colors or around 16,777,216 (that's more than 16 million colors). It is much more than what a typical eye can differentiate (a human eye can differentiate about 4-5 million shades of color AFAIK). Anyone who has more information about this please feel free to correct me or add to this. So if you can set you color depth to 24 bit color in mandrake control center, then you are pretty much good to go. Of course, your hardware must be able to support 24 bit color at that resolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 22, 2004 Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 32 bit is 24 bit. Just: the extra byte makes it easier to address, since with 3 (8bit) bytes you get a binary mess, with 4 bytes, you stay nicely in binary counting. Oh, and it sounds higher therefor better... 18 bit audio must be better than 16, etc. Not true in many cases, but anyway.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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