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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (8112)	10/9/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Re: What is the difference between 24bit color and 32bit? Nothing that _my_ eye can determine. People that are trying to create camera-ready copy using programs like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are much more into color accuracy since their ultimate output device (very high-res color printers) is very sensitive to color variations. 32bit color and neutral gamma settings are critical for those kind of applications. For everyone else it is kinda overkill. Hardware-wise, in older generation boards there was a speed/resolution penalty for using the deepest bit-depth. That's no longer true (at least on my 400Mhz PII w/Banshee) so I'm using the 32bit setting. I don't know if there is still a performance issue for people with slower CPUs or not. There is an increase in memory usage but it's not significant unless you are low on memory already. Chip

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (8112)	10/9/1998 5:11:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Respond to of 16960

I use Display->properties->setting->advance to get to the driver's controls. I hope that's what you meant by the "Banshee" tab. Hmmmm... Not really. On my system, I pull up the "Display/Properties" dialog (either via control panel or by right-clicking on the desktop) and then click on the "Raven" tab at the top of that dialog (I also have a "Voodoo2" tab up there, BTW). You should have a "Phoenix" tab (or something similar) at the top of that very first dialog. I use the "Settings" tab on that dialog to set the resolution, bit depth, and (via the "Advanced" button) refresh rate of the Desktop. But the "Raven" tab allows me to set everything else. Chip