True Color- High Color

[Robert Bodling]

When you press the right mouse button on the desktop it will pull up a
pop-up window, press the Display Modes, give me to options of "True Color"
or "High Color"... what is the difference between True Color (which is what
my laptop is set to now) and High Color? I am afraid to choose the opposite
and mess things up Dell configured and not be able to get it back without
causing other problems. This is on a Inspiron 1100 laptop, if that makes a
difference.

 

[wojo]

When you press the right mouse button on the desktop it will pull up a
pop-up window, press the Display Modes, give me to options of "True Color"
or "High Color"... what is the difference between True Color (which is
what
my laptop is set to now) and High Color? I am afraid to choose the
opposite
and mess things up Dell configured and not be able to get it back without
causing other problems. This is on a Inspiron 1100 laptop, if that makes a
difference.

True color is 16bit color and True color is 32bit if I remember correctly.

True color is more vivid colors but not compatible with some older programs.

You won't hurt a thing by changing to True Color.
If it was not supported by your monitor it would not be available.
Also if you change your video mode and you can't see the screen it will
revrt back to the old settings in 15 seconds.

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[Burt]

Wojo,
The other responder was correct but made a typo.
True color is 32 bit and High Color is 16 bit.. For most any
computer operator, 16 bit is PLENTY allowing you around
9 million colors... 32 bit is around 16.7 million colors..
You will find that quite a few programs will run a little faster
with 16 bit color setting...
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When you press the right mouse button on the desktop it will pull up a
pop-up window, press the Display Modes, give me to options of "True Color"
or "High Color"... what is the difference between True Color (which is
what
my laptop is set to now) and High Color? I am afraid to choose the
opposite
and mess things up Dell configured and not be able to get it back without
causing other problems. This is on a Inspiron 1100 laptop, if that makes a
difference.

True color is 16bit color and True color is 32bit if I remember correctly.

True color is more vivid colors but not compatible with some older programs.

You won't hurt a thing by changing to True Color.
If it was not supported by your monitor it would not be available.
Also if you change your video mode and you can't see the screen it will
revrt back to the old settings in 15 seconds.

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[Alex Nichol]

When you press the right mouse button on the desktop it will pull up a
pop-up window, press the Display Modes, give me to options of "True Color"
or "High Color"... what is the difference between True Color (which is what
my laptop is set to now) and High Color?

High color usually means 16 bit color - where two bytes are used for
each pixel, and the number is an index into a 'palette' of up to 64K
color shades. 'True color' uses a byte each for red, blue and green,
giving 256 levels in each (which is reckoned to be about all the eye can
distinguish - 16 million odd distinct shades) and is either 24 or 32
bits per pixel - usually 32 now for faster access even if it does waste
a bit of RAM. It is only when doing fairly critical graphics, color
matching or adjusting photos, that the extra of True color really
notices

 

[Plato]

When you press the right mouse button on the desktop it will pull up a
pop-up window, press the Display Modes, give me to options of "True Color"
or "High Color"... what is the difference between True Color (which is what
my laptop is set to now) and High Color? I am afraid to choose the opposite

High color is is better overall. The human eye cant see the 56 billion
colors true color does.