General monitor info: Resolution, Color depth, Common monitor problems, and more!

[AMDnewbie2k6]

Thank you good sir, i finally know what was happening in Swat4 and it wasn't low FPS.

[thread]

Good question, I wondered that myself. Instincively, to my head you should only need 24bits to represent the colour after all the transparencies are figured out by the GPU with fancy schmancy algorithms. What gives?

[falcobird]

Originally Posted by thread

Good question, I wondered that myself. Instincively, to my head you should only need 24bits to represent the colour after all the transparencies are figured out by the GPU with fancy schmancy algorithms. What gives?

Well, the video card can only display what the system tells it to
If you tell it to render without the alpha bits, it will do it. Color is not defined by the GPU, but by the information it recieves from the CPU each time it renders the image.

The difference is quite noticable. In games running 24bit color, things like smoke look purplish and pink and blotchy. when you go to 32 bit color they look noticably more grey.

[Sealteamz6]

thanks for the info

[cdolphin]

thanks, this was helpful

[N64link]

Umm, shouldn't 1600*900 be in here? It's a 1.7777777777777777777777777777778 (super wide screen) Ratio.