Bootskin Distorted

Always Appears Distorted

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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
beginners
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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?
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Nope.

That is intentional.

We don't have a High-color version yet.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The people that have high color boots screens usuing linux or somthing i guess.


That's entirely possible (/me 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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