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von Ryan
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Default Re: Help (?) - 29-12-2004

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Originally Posted by @$3.1415rin
basically 24 and 32 bit display modes are the same, only that in the 32 bit mode you waste 1 byte for each pixel, the remaining 3 bytes are the normal RGB stuff. 32bit adressing is faster, since it's only multiplicating by 4 which is faster than multiplicating by 3. when you have 128mb on your video card today, nobody cares if some MB are wasted
I still don't get the difference, but I care if I can avoid wasting some MB

/me goes for 32-bit.

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Umm... Where do I see if the thingy is 24 or 32-bit? Max. Playback and Recording Depth?
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