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24bit depth only in Sierra?


Funky frank
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Hi,

 

since the upgrade to Sierra 10.12.4, it seems that the screen is only displayed in 24 bit depth, instead 32...

 

Transitions will show a stepping effect... Using a ATI HD7750 with enabled hardware acceleration. Also seeing this on my nvidia gt330m machine since the upgrade.

 

Any idea how to switch to 32 bit? Or determine which mode is used?

 

I also activated Nightshift using the FixEDID tool. 

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24 is another name for 32bit

A8R8G8B8

which is 8 bit per color

 

opposite to 30bit

A2R10G10B10

which is 10 bit per color not concerning alfa-channel, transparency.

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Strange, so it is a bug maybe?  It looks 32bit in Windows 10. I have no more ideas. I disabled nightshift completely, no change.  But it seems to see my monitor as "projector", maybe thats the problem? Or is smbios imac14,2 causing this?

What is the bug? 24 is another name for 32bit, no more.

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Hi,

 

 

1. Select that black/white lightning backdrop under settings->desktop

2. logoff your account and see that now blurred backdrop

 

 

Do you see a heavy staircase effect in that blurred transitions? I do so on a 10.12.6, nividia and a 10.12.4 and system.

 

Obviously here the macOS system display doesn't seem to use a 8 bit range per colour, but something below...

Is that a bug?

 

Please have a look:

post-39386-0-21925000-1501048109_thumb.jpg

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