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maliken
Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:28 pm
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 Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! 411570N3 wrote: maliken wrote: On today's hardware, memory consumption is not a problem. Color index mode doesn't offer any advantages, does it? Tell that to the heaps of people that play CC because it can run on old hardware. The bottleneck is physics and no hardware acceleration. It's about CPU, not memory. But I agree 8-bit graphics look cool.
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| Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:26 pm |
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411570N3
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:26 am
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Location: That quaint little British colony down south
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! My CC folder is larger than a gigabyte. If I were to load all my mods at once I'm quite sure older computers would run out of ram long before any major CPU stress.
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| Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:01 pm |
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MaximDude
Joined: Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:19 pm
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! maliken wrote: The bottleneck is physics and no hardware acceleration. It's about CPU, not memory. But I agree 8-bit graphics look cool. CC is 16bit. Its been made like, and its not something that is going to change, ever.
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| Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:12 pm |
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sin2051
Joined: Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:12 am
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! 411570N3 wrote: My CC folder is larger than a gigabyte. If I were to load all my mods at once I'm quite sure older computers would run out of ram long before any major CPU stress. you could say that about any game, it doesn't change the baseline CC's bottleneck is the CPU MaximDude wrote: CC is 16bit.
Its been made like, and its not something that is going to change, ever. 256 colors is 8-bit dude the effects are 24-bit with luminance used as an alpha value I guess you could say the entire game runs in 24-bit (even though Windows erroneously calls it 32-bit)
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| Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:23 pm |
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LowestFormOfWit
Joined: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:04 am
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! Yeah, let's change the palette so we all have to recolor -everything-.
More work please.
And you people wonder why this thread died 2 years ago.
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| Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:13 pm |
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mail2345
Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:58 am
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! Try playing with glow on.
Try playing with them off.
Measure speed.
Which is faster.
To more noticeable difference play something with lots of glows.
EDIT:
2GB ram limit ftl.
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| Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:36 pm |
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MaximDude
Joined: Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:19 pm
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! sin2051 wrote: MaximDude wrote: CC is 16bit.
Its been made like, and its not something that is going to change, ever. 256 colors is 8-bit dude Really? I was sure it was 16bit... Guess I was wrong... Usually when I think about 8bit I think about Mario >___>'
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411570N3
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:26 am
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! Is it 8 because 4 are used per ordinate on the palette so that you end up with the palette as a 16 by 16 box?
Because 4 bits can be 0-15... and the palette is 16x16... and I thought that might be the reason... yeah...
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Duh102
happy carebear mom
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! 411570N3 wrote: Is it 8 because 4 are used per ordinate on the palette so that you end up with the palette as a 16 by 16 box? 8 bits = 8 1/0 slots 11111111 binary = 255 decimal (0 - 255 slot = 256 total) 256 = 16x16
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411570N3
Joined: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:26 am
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! Right, that makes considerably more sense.
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sin2051
Joined: Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:12 am
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! MaximDude wrote: Really?
I was sure it was 16bit... Guess I was wrong...
Usually when I think about 8bit I think about Mario >___>' you're thinking of system architectures, the NES was 8-bit while the SNES and Genesis were 16-bit however the NES had 53 total? colors/greys available (dunno how that works out) and the Genesis had 64 colors available onscreen (6-bit palette) anyway the CPU architecture and available palette depth are unrelated
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| Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:48 pm |
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IceSilver
Joined: Fri May 29, 2009 10:53 am
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! I'll just sit here and wait for the day when GPU's are also used as or assist CPU's (when not being heavily taxed)...seriously, they're way more powerful
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| Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:48 am |
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maliken
Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:28 pm
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Re: CC doesn't support RGB,Why?! IceSilver wrote: I'll just sit here and wait for the day when GPU's are also used as or assist CPU's (when not being heavily taxed)...seriously, they're way more powerful That's why CC should make use of hardware acceleration, even in color index mode.
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