(^262) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide
- Click Apply to change the display settings. A Compatibility Warning box, as
shown in Figure 12-4, will display asking you if you wish to restart the PC with
the new colors or apply them without a restart (which should be the default).
Choose Apply the New Color Settings Without Restarting? and click OK.
Another warning box will display telling you that it may take a few seconds
to install the new settings. Click OK. - The screen will appear in its new settings. Now repeat this process, changing
the display settings to the highest resolution and color depth settings available. - Reset the display settings to their original settings.
Color Depth
The other major factor in determining the amount of video RAM a system requires is the
color depth, which is the number of individual colors that each pixel can display. The color
depth is expressed as the number of bits used to describe each color in the color set. The
common color depth settings are 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit color. Figure 12-5 shows
an example the color depth settings on a Windows PC.Figure 12-3. The Windows Display Properties window