Only 256 colors??

[Mikey421]

I am wondering if it is possible to set my display properties to 16kb instead of 256. When I click the list all it shows are 16 color and 256 color. Is it my monitor?

486 DX2, standard 640x480 VGA

Also, is there a way to check what kind of vidio card I have, so I can check for an updated driver?

[This message has been edited by Mikey421 (edited 04-11-99).]

[Bleeding Edge]

The color depth depends on your video card and its driver.

If you bought the monitor at the time you got the 486, even if it's a 15", it should even be able to run at a higher resolution than at which you chose. At the least 640x480 or 800x600. I suspect the video card can also run at a deeper color depth. Such as 32,000+ colors. It takes about a half a megabyte of video memory to to this.

If this is all true about your hardware, the fix is to install/use the videocard's drivers instead of the standard VGA driver.