On 19 Mar 99, at 14:22, Earl Truss wrote:

> You may need to change the definition of your monitor before you can
> increase the number of colors.  Right-click on any blank spot on
> your desktop, select Properties, select the Settings tab, then select
> "Change display type".  Your exact steps may be different because
> different video drivers may change the display settings dialogs.

  Just to clarify:  The "display type" is the VIDEO CARD, not the
monitor.
  [Under Win98, I do not see "Change display type"; from Settings, I
have to click the "Advanced" button and then select the "Adapter" tab
to get to the "Change..." button....  There *is* also a "Change..."
button on the "Monitor" tab, but "Monochrome VGA" is about the only
setting there that should affect the available colour depths, and it
will curtail them rather than improve them.]

  16 colors means either:

1.  You've selected a resolution very near the maximum that can be
supported by the installed video RAM -- you could probably have more
colors at this resolution if you added RAM to the video card, or
replaced it.

2.  Your video card works as a vanilla VGA, but not as anything better.
This could be due to a mismatch between driver and card; try
(re)installing the driver.


David G

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