Hi jakob,

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@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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