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Increasing the number of colors

1Right-click on a clear area of your desktop, then click Properties.

2Click Settings.

If you are using multiple monitors, click the monitor icon whose color depth you want to change. If you click a secondary monitor and Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor is not checked, you cannot change that monitor’s settings. Each monitor has its own color settings.

3In the Colors box, select High Color (16 bit), True Color (24 bit) or True Color (32 bit).

Your type of monitor and video adapter determine the maximum number of colors.

The ALL-IN-WONDER card’s advanced, DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 3D acceleration gives you detailed color graphics and 3D features like multi-texturing, alpha blending, and fog effects. ALL-IN-WONDER also provides powerful 2D graphics features through the Display Properties pages:

Settings

Customize your desktop settings such as desktop size, screen resolution and color depth, and store various desktop preferences for easy recall later.

Adjust the position and size of your

Adjustment

screen, as well as manipulate the screen refresh rate, frequencies and synchronization.

Color

Correct color tone differences between real color values and the way your monitor displays them, and store

Correction

various color correction preferences for easy recall later.

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ATI Technologies 9700 specifications Increasing the number of colors, Click Settings