xp color depth
 

How can I make xp default to 16b color? Any time I switch resolutions the damn box keeps coming up with 32b. I only use windows for pt/poker so don't know what surely must be a simple cfg change - registry edit? Control panel? Some admin GUI? I've looked under props which shows me available depths but nothing to force this POS to quit using 32b as the default.

Re: xp color depth
 

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How can I make xp default to 16b color? Any time I switch resolutions the damn box keeps coming up with 32b. I only use windows for pt/poker so don't know what surely must be a simple cfg change - registry edit? Control panel? Some admin GUI? I've looked under props which shows me available depths but nothing to force this POS to quit using 32b as the default.

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Quit changing resolutions so often. It shows the max color depth your hardware supports as the default.

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Quit changing resolutions so often. It shows the

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That's it? That's the answer?? Use my computer the way MS thinks I should and not the way I want?? You can't be serious. Are you saying there is no way to set the default or you just don't know how?

Mike

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How can I make xp default to 16b color? Any time I switch resolutions the damn box keeps coming up with 32b. I only use windows for pt/poker so don't know what surely must be a simple cfg change - registry edit? Control panel? Some admin GUI? I've looked under props which shows me available depths but nothing to force this POS to quit using 32b as the default.

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There is realy no use for 16bit color today. But if you want it for some strange reason use a program called powerstrip. It lets you customize alot of diffrent modes and easy to switch between them via systray.

http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm

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There is realy no use for 16bit color today. But if you want

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There's still a need for being able to choose your own defaults/cfgs [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I run xp in vmware under linux and only alloc 384M RAM for xp. Whether the map is video RAM or sys RAM doesn't matter since trucolor is >> 2x what's needed for pt/poker software.

Thanks much for the app...

Mike

Re: xp color depth
 

In powerstrip, whatever you set it to is what it will boot in. This fixes your problem.