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- Hi, Glyn, Your last message said:
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- > > I may be wrong, but it sounds like this is more to do with your OS than
- > > Lightwave. There is no such problem on the Amiga.
- >
- > LW4 (rather foolishly) suggests using an 8-bit mode when running the
- > modeller to acheive maximum screen update rates.
- > It is true that 8 bit modes tend to be faster. But who wants to run their
- > rending software with only 256 colours?
- >
- > However on most recent PCs hardware acceleration in the video card means
- > that screen-updates and linedraw rates of 24 and 16 bit modes is rather
- > fast. In fact - without wanting to start a start a silly PC versus Amiga
- > war - I would be so bold to venture that on some PCs it might even be
- > faster then some Amigas.
- >
-
- Ahh, but the original post I replied to was a complaint about having to
- shut down to change screen modes - no such problem on the Amiga, I've
- currently got four screens running, not only with different
- resolutions, but with different scan rates, and can swap between them at
- the click of a mouse. Layout on the amiga runs in 4 or 8 colours but
- displays renders in ham8 262k colours and my 24bit board can pick up the
- frames as they are saved to the drive and display them automatically.
-
- Gwynne.
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