On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:56:23PM +0100, Bruno Thomsen wrote: > > Somehow, I cannot use 1600x1200 with a color depth of 24 as before. It > > says that the 32 megs of memory aren't enough. I had to lower the depth > > to 16 to be able to use that resolution. > > > > It was working fine with the previous version. > > > > GeForce2 Integrated GPU > > Hey > > If you only have 32 megs of memory, you cant run in 1600x1200 24bit > color, here is why: > memreq = (1600 bit x 1200 bit x 24 bit) / (1024 x 1024) = 44 Megabyte. > If you use 16 bit color: > memreq = (1600 bit x 1200 bit x 16 bit) / (1024 x 1024) = 30 Megabyte. >
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