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Article #14086Re: Graphics Accelerator Cards
From: Thomas Beagle
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:19
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:19
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In article <PERFRED.92Nov20171529@gullregn.idt.unit.no> perfred@gullregn.idt.unit.no (Per Fredrik Solberg) writes:
>> For a quick fix, try switching to the plain vanilla VGA-driver included
>> with Windows. That'll only give you 16 colours, but at the same time it
>> reduces the amount of info on the screen by a factor of 16. Consequently
> ^^
>Not quite. 256 colors require 1 byte per pixel, whereas 16 colors
>require 4 bits per pixel; thus, the amount of video data is only
>reduced by a factor of 2.
Interestingly, I have found that 1024*768*256 is faster on my vanilla
Trident card that 1024*768*16.
I guess there's something to be said for bytes around...
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