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Thoran 01-21-2004 11:44 AM

You don't need to spend an arm and a leg... for less than $80.00 you can get a Geforce 4 TI 4200 with 64 meg... that'll give you all the resolution and bit depth you'll need.

Funny that you mentioned bit depth. I need a card with 48bpp (or preferably 64bpp), spent a couple hours yesterday looking, there's nothing out there yet.

andrewas 01-21-2004 06:50 PM

What do you need that bit depth for? The human eye can't perieve 2^32 colours, even if you could get a monitor to display it.

Ilander, make sure your motherboard has an AGP slot before you go and buy your new card, if it dosent you will need to find a PCI version.

Thoran 01-22-2004 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by andrewas:
What do you need that bit depth for? The human eye can't perieve 2^32 colours, even if you could get a monitor to display it.

I'm using a number of 16 bit per channel input devices (both 16 bit grayscale and 48-bit color), and dropping those images back to 8 bit per channel for viewing loses a lot of data, some areas of an image might have significant information that is being "lost in translation" when I give up those 8 bits. The human eye is indeed capable of seeing more than 256 shades of a color, and it is especially sensitive to edges. Open up photoshop and create two squares, one of grayscale value 128, one of 129. Seperate them on a white background and try to decide which is darker... you can't. Next place them so they're touching eachother, now you will easily be able to determine which is the darker by comparing them relative to eachother right at the interface point.

Photoshop is now capable of working on 16 bit per channel images, I'd like an output device that can display it also, although admittedly those sorts of bit depths are of limited use.

Ilander 02-03-2004 07:46 AM

(does happy dance)SINGS: It worked, it worked, I can finnally play Morrowind! It worked, it worked, and now my 700Mhz computer outperforms a graphics-cardless 2.3Ghz!

And yes, I know my song didn't rhyme, but that's okay, because I'm a happy camper...

LordKathen 02-03-2004 03:43 PM

<FONT COLOR=LIME>I had to install a Gforce 2 with 32bit true color, so I could play Morrowind myself. </font>


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