Hi. I've been running my 19" monitor at 1280 x 1024, displaying thousands of colors. Millions is not an option at this particular resolution. I just installed a 3D modeling program that was released 4, 5 years ago and I noticed immediately that there was obvious banding in the rendered images until I switched my display to millions of colors. I also had to lower my resolution to 1152 x 870 in order to be able to use the "millions" option. My question is this: Does it sound like a different video card and/or new graphics software would allow me to use the higher resolution and display at millions of colors? Also (I did ask this before and got one or two responses for which I was thankful) can anyone recommend a good graphics accelerator card that would be well suited for rendering highly detailed images from a 3D modeling program? I'm running the following configuration: S900 Sonnet upgrade (450 MHz) 1 Gb RAM OS 9.2.2 Two 2 Gb SCSIs ATA card 120 Gb EIDE drive USB controller card
One last note: If any of you remember, I'm the guy that lost his S900 a few months ago to the black screen of death. I was able to score another S900 from eBay in MINT condition and transferred all my upgrades to the "new" machine. It's been working beautifully but I did have another brief encounter w/ the black screen of death after a crash while logged onto the internet. Fortunately I had saved all the replies to my earlier plight and was able to restore the video using a few of the remedies suggested (namely temporarily reverting to the old processor and unplugging my external SCSI connection). Thanks to all of you who responded w/ your many suggestions. They sure did come in handy. Elliot -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
