Bootskin Distorted

Always Appears Distorted

Thursday, September 8, 2005 by bpeters | Discussion: Beginners

Greetings,

I'm new at this, so please bear with me.

I changed my XP bootup skin, however, it appears really distorted. It's always been like this. It takes up the whole screen (laptop, 15.4 inch) and appears really blurry. Is there anyway to change that setting so it's clear? HELP!

Thanks In Advance,
Brian
spinal
Reply #1 Saturday, September 10, 2005 8:57 AM
Laptop screens only look good at there max resolution, boot skins are displayed at 640x480 pixels, most laptops start at aroun 1024x768, so the imagewill seem resized, as 1 image pixel will be larger than 1 screen pixel.
Because you can not shade half a screen pixel, some pixels will be represented by more than one pixel,others by just one, depending on how the image is resized. At lowere resolutions, laptops tend to not look so good. you can reduce the crappyness if the image by using less crisp iimages, where fine detail is less visable.
BigChddar
Reply #2 Monday, September 12, 2005 4:59 AM
I got that prob on my amd 2500 pc with windows xp, its like in 256 color mode anyway to bump it up or anything?
PurrBall
Reply #3 Monday, September 12, 2005 5:51 AM
Nope.

That is intentional.

We don't have a High-color version yet.
BigChddar
Reply #4 Monday, September 12, 2005 4:28 PM
oh I see ty for the response. The people that have high color boots screens usuing linux or somthing i guess. Id be too afraid to leave windows
Chris TH
Reply #5 Monday, September 12, 2005 7:57 PM
The people that have high color boots screens usuing linux or somthing i guess.


That's entirely possible (Chris TH not a linux guru).

Windows seems to not load it's graphics driver until after the bootscreen is displayed so it can only use basic VGA mode for the display.


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BigChddar
Reply #6 Sunday, September 18, 2005 1:06 PM
That makes sence. Im wondering if Windows Vista will be differant.

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