[PD] low color.depth in gemwin

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hi

well for me it was a problem with the ati driver. (mob. 9600/xp)
you should download omega drivers form http://www.omegadrivers.net/
and install them.

after installation leave the settings default.
if you tweak them, the problem occurs again.

cheers
wolfgang

At 20:24 11.10.2004, Peter Todd wrote:
>I have found, on my system (radeon 9000 mobility, windowsXP, latest stable 
>GEM 0.90 binary release etc etc), that although the colour depth is 
>sensible most of the time, basically any time I use [pix_texture], it is 
>not.  If someone could shed any more light on this, or suggest a solution, 
>it would be much appreciated.
>
>Peter
>
>  [from the list archive]
>
>  GEM will use a 24 bit buffer for its OpenGL output regardless of the current
>  windows display depth.  If the display colour depth is lower than this, then
>  dithering will occur (down to 16 or 8 bit or ...) before it appears on your
>  monitor.
>
>  So, ensure your windows display depth is set to a reasonable value (prob 16,
>  24 or 32 bit).
>
>  The OpenGL rendering occurring on any particular machine will be either an
>  accelerated driver associated with your video card, or the microsoft
>  software renderer.  The appearance and performance of the various renderers
>  can vary considerably.
>
>  daniel
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: jakob poc [mailto:handlewithcare at angelfire.com]
>  > Sent: Sunday, 14 July 2002 7:38 AM
>  > To: pd
>  > Subject: [PD] low color.depth in gemwin
>  >
>  >
>  >  hi this is jakob with a question
>  >
>  > i just installed pd+gem on my machine
>  > (pd 0.78 / win 2000 )
>  > so far everything was fine
>  > but when i play a movi (avi)on the gemwin
>  > it looks kind of strange-
>  > the colordepth seams to be to low-
>  > something like 256 colores
>  >
>  >
>  > i saw the samme material on a nother machine of a friend (pd) but
>  > there it was running quite well
>  >
>  > what could be the reason for that effekt
>  > maybe sombody has solution for that problem
>  >
>  > thanks very much jakob
>  >
>
>
>
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