HELP regarding colors

[James [Wez] Weatherall]

On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, dls2 wrote:

> I have just begun experimenting with VNC to see how well it works.  It
> apparently works well for general productivity.  Productivity aside, it
> seems less suitable for games.  I have established a Win9x to Win9x
> connection over which I have run Blizzard Software's Starcraft.  While
> the display seems organized correctly, the colors are entirely wrong.
> I tried changing color depths and resolutions, but the symptoms stayed
> constant.  Searching through the VNC mailing list archive yielded some
> mention of a difference between true and pseudo colors, yet I am not
> certain as to how such would be applicable in this case.  I am not at all
> concerned with the VNCviewer dying on resolution changes, but I am
> concerned about the failure of VNC to display colors properly.

I think this is a problem in any program that changes the screen
resolution to 256-colours under DirectX.  VNC by default uses the GDI to
grab the current screen state, so the results will be erratic when using
DirectX, which bypasses the GDI to some extent.

Is Starcraft a DirectX game?

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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