What Rez you set at?

**AlienDyne** · February 28th, 2002, 02:40 AM

800x600 for me.

**Drone2903** · February 28th, 2002, 07:47 AM

1024x768 32b color on a Dell inspiron 5000 15"tft

**Hippie_Tech** · February 28th, 2002, 02:09 PM

The reason why you run a laptop or flat panel screen at 24-bit color is because that is all they are capable of displaying. Your video card setting might say 32-bit, but the screen can only physically support 24-bit. It has to do with contrast ratios on flat panels. They are nowhere near as colorful as normal CRT screens are. Most of them can't even really display 24-bit color. I wish I had the link that showed the different types of flat panels. It was on the Windrivers.com site not too long ago. Either Tom's hardware or Anandtech.

**Gollo** · February 28th, 2002, 02:22 PM

[quote]Originally posted by Hippie_Tech:
The reason why you run a laptop or flat panel screen at 24-bit color is because that is all they are capable of displaying. Your video card setting might say 32-bit, but the screen can only physically support 24-bit. It has to do with contrast ratios on flat panels. They are nowhere near as colorful as normal CRT screens are. Most of them can't even really display 24-bit color. I wish I had the link that showed the different types of flat panels. It was on the Windrivers.com site not too long ago. Either Tom's hardware or Anandtech.<hr></blockquote>

All though this may be true I keep it set at the 32bit depth setting for when I connect it to an external monitor.

**Gameguru** · February 28th, 2002, 08:43 PM

1024x768@32bit color.

Just a side note....

16bit color is 65536 individual colors.

32 bit is 16.77 million colors.

The difference between the two is 256 levels of transparency.

IE 65536*256=16777216

**jaeger** · February 28th, 2002, 08:51 PM

[quote]Originally posted by Rellik:
No option for 960x720

? Yes, it's an odd resolution. Well, my second screen is 640x480, so I'll put that in....<hr></blockquote>

Run most of my games at 960x720.

**Jallentino** · February 28th, 2002, 11:00 PM

1024 X 768 on a 19" KDS

**Cygnus** · March 1st, 2002, 09:54 AM

in the office: 1024x768 32bit on a 17" monitor

in the studio: dual 19" flat panels @ 1024x768 32bit

at home: 1 19" @ 1152x864 and 1 17" @ 1024x768, both 32 bit

**Hippie_Tech** · March 1st, 2002, 01:25 PM

At work, I run my 17" CRT at 1024x768 at 16-bit color. At home I run my 19" CRT at 1280x1024 at 32-bit color.
I found this description of 32-bit:

A monitor with 24-bit color can display 16.8 million colors; 32-bit color does not add more colors, but gives the display additional masking and channeling abilities.

**Gameguru** · March 1st, 2002, 04:43 PM

[quote]Originally posted by Hippie_Tech:
A monitor with 24-bit color can display 16.8 million colors; 32-bit color does not add more colors, but gives the display additional masking and channeling abilities.<hr></blockquote>

Do you have a link? I would love to read up on that. I always was under the assumption that 32bit was 16.8M colors and that was as high as you could go.

Learn somethin' new everyday!