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Re: Display Colours
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew <andrewj@tne.net.au> writes:
Andrew> I am wondering how many colours executor supports. in the
Andrew> control panel, there are options for 16 and 24 bit colour,
Andrew> but they are greyed out.
Executor does not support those color depths. We put the buttons in
the preferences panel in anticipation of maybe supporting them before
Executor 2 hit "feature freeze", but we didn't end up having time. We
will remove those misleading buttons from our preferences panel before
Executor 2 ships.
Andrew> I have a Matrox Millenium 4 mb WRAM video card, so I
Andrew> should be able to access all the colour depths. Also, i
Andrew> can't get executor to run at 800x600. The screen appears
Andrew> in the wrong place and the mouse pointer leaves four
Andrew> streams of garbage on the screen wherever it moves.
Andrew> 1024x768 works fine though.
That's very strange! I would guess a bug in the board's VBE
implementation, but that seems like a pretty big bug for Matrox to let
slip through. Hmmm. Do they have a web site where you can check for
driver updates or anything?
Andrew> I have not yet installed q12 - judging by the amount of
Andrew> problems people have been reporting about it, i have not
Andrew> been game to install it. You might have to release one
Andrew> more patch before beta, Ardi...
I think you should install q12 (perhaps saving a copy of your old
"executor.exe" first to be safe). q12 fixes far more problems than it
introduces.
Andrew> Any help with the display problems would be greatly
Andrew> appreciated.
Unfortunately, I don't think we'll have time to track down your
800x600 problem remotely before Executor 2 ships. At least you can
use 1024x768, so it doesn't seem critically important to fix it.
-Mat
P.S. I've heard that the Matrox Millenium has VBE 2.0 built in (which
is very cool). Is that true? "executor -info" will tell you.
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