I got this laptop from someone else who I believe improperly restored the OS. Could it be missing the right drivers?
2007-05-25 17:00:48 · 3 answers · asked by Will 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Your eyes can't go above 32-bit color, and your laptop can't go beyond the physical resolution of whatever your screen is. So what do you think should be there for you to see?
2007-05-25 17:04:19 · answer #1 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a short lesson on computer colors.
Every and all colors are a mixture of the three primary colors, blue, red, and green. Computer architecture was designed to handle data in multiples of 8 bits. I know, this doesn't add up, here's why. Video display boards where originally designed to use 5 bits of red and blue with green getting the extra bit. Why? Because our eyes are more sensitive to green-yellow colors so the extra bit gives more color depth, but with the majority in the human eye sensitivity range. True color is actually 24bit, 8bits of the three primary. However, it takes far longer to process three groups of 8 bits than it does to process 2 groups of 16 bits. The video card just discards(wastes memory space) the extra 8 bits and actually displays 24 bit true color. At this time 32 bit color mode is the best your going to get.
By the way, 64MB on a video card is small by current standards.
2007-05-26 00:25:08 · answer #2 · answered by THE ONE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BPP and MB are not the same thing. BPP refers to the quality. MB is the memory which affects the performance.
2007-05-26 00:12:16 · answer #3 · answered by me m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋