CompuServe Messages

Hello Dave, I followed your instructions and had a very pleasantly successful experience! One little mysterious event in which all of a sudden a config. menu appeared for Panacea Turbodld. I had been looking for this, I was sure I had installed it but could not "bring it to life". Got through that and won't bore your with the details. I left the materials editor remarked so it would retain it's default resolution. The comments in 3ds2.set recomend this and who am I to argue. I upped my display and renderer resolutions to 1024 x 768 w\ 256 colors, started 3ds, and shazam. This is way more better! The DS64 manual claims to support 1152 x 864 w\ 16.7 million colors and 1280 x 1024 w\ 65,536 colors. My monitor manual has a bunch of resoltion\refresh rates listed that it supports but makes no mention of numbers of colors. It is my understanding that increasing resolution\number of colors decreases rendering speed.Is there any way other than trial and error to determine an appropriate balance between res\colors and speed? I am afraid to try some of the higher settings because of all the disclaimers in the manuals about causing your computer to go balistic and burn down your home. I thank you very much for all your help, it has been very valuable to me. mark telluride co.