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January 4th 2008, 03:29 AM
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I don't know about bugs with true colour mode, but as far as I know the main thing you have to worry about in true colour vs dink palette is memory. Bitmaps in 24-bit are going to be about 3x as big as 8-bit, so that's 3x as much memory and 3x as much loading time for images. You might want to find a maximum amount of memory you want dink.exe to use and use the task manager to monitor how much memory you are using to stay under it. Maybe one of the Dink staff could do a poll on how much memory Dinkers have to determine the appropriate limit. It'd certainly be a better poll than the current one