Re: Request of feature for 16bit games

Aarne Põder wrote:
>  Those games are running very slow in 32bpp desktop. Usually, most
> people don't know the reason of slowness. Moreover, knowing of this
> issue and changeing your desktop color depth is not good solution. It's
> uncomport - requires often restart of X session. 

Actually, on XFree86 4.x and later (such as X.org), it may be possible 
to improve the performance on 32bpp desktops by setting this config option:

[x11drv]
"ScreenDepth" = "16"

I've never looked into whether this actually works. If it does, someone 
could probably create a poll to do these depth adjustments dynamically.