silly question

[Allan2]

Just wondering something. If you set your desktop with your G400 (or any video card for that matter) to a very high resolution and a very high color depth does this impact the amount of memory available to a game? I would assume that it switches to the game resolution and color depth without any performance hit but I could be wrong. Anyone know?

[Allan2]

Can anyone answer this one? Last call.

[Helevitia]

first of all, this is the wrong forum.

To answer your question, the games always switches the resolution to whatever you have the game set to so there shouldn't be any performance hit. As far as the color depoth is concerned, I'm not sure how that works.

Dave

[Pelle]

Well, given the fact that two years ago most videocards had 4 to 8 MB of videoram, there wouldn't haven been much memory left for textures, back- and zbuffer if they kept the desktop somewhere in the videoram - so i think that the memory occupied by the desctop is either swaped to local memory or just completly freed.

[Allan2]

That makes sense Pelle. It's probably one of the first things done when creating new video drivers. I was just curious.