CompuServe Messages

Need some tech support or perhaps a "We built it that way that year" said with Sympathy. I'm an old Amiga user that hasn't become expert on PC jargon, busses ,etc. Just got a Pentium-100 PCI machine and Im 3.2. How fitting. When I used to run Im on wife's 8MB 486 dx 50 the following was a nuisance, since only practice stuff could be done anyway. Now, would really like to know if I can fix the display modes. REAL PROBLEM is in displaying rendered images. The SuperVGA menu pulls down with one choice:"Show Available Display Modes" and when I select it, it tells me "No VESA Display Modes available." OK. Still, isn't there anything I can do to display the image in a display mode suitable to a Pentium ISA/PCI machine? that 320x200x256 display forces me to go out to other s/w to see serious images that Image is quite happy to create. Also, 3.2 now opens with message: "Requested Screen mode is not supported through VESA interface." Well, "OK", since I'm running off PCI bus, that's no surprise. Then Imagine opens up with 640×400 display. Checking preferences, that's what is requested(and its what I want for the control panel functions.) Why tell me that its not supported thru VESA then give it to me anyway? Am I missing something obvious to more experienced PC dudes?