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VESA screen modes

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I cant seem to get true color VESA modes to work on my computer(256 color modes do work)! The strange thing is though is that I got it 2 years ago. Does anybody know why?
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If you have changed computer that is probably the reason..
Besides, the true VESA modes only support 8bit colors (256 colors) many cards added support for more colors though, which kind of started breaking the VESA standard..

Nowadays very few cards even bother implementing vesa at all.. you'd be lucky to get even 640x480x8bit..
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So than do you know how to get high resolution /w true colors without using VESA?
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Works fine on my computer that HAS a graphics card. Turns out I need a new one!
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What happens with my program? Does it crash? Does my program mode list report any truecolor modes available? Try the older version, as the newer one is more picky? Perhaps your card uses 24 bits, not 32 bits....
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Well, my one computer(the one that has a gfx card) lists ten bazilloin different modes whereas the other computer lists 3 which dont work anyway. I then tried some of the 24 bit modes(not using your program) which returned the same results. Your program worked just fine, need not worry! Its just that I need a new gfx card for my computer.
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Post by Zamaster »

Well this is sorta an odd question but does anybody know if NVIDIA GeForce FX5500 cards support VESA modes? I know that NVIDIA GeForce4 MX's do!
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yeah anything that came out after the ATI Radeon 7600 and the nVidia GeForce 2 should have atleast have vesa 1.0 or higher compliancy
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