ive been doing the logic for my crpg and now im ready to have my artist start with the art but im not sure what resoltion my screen should be, how many pixels my bitmaps should be and how many colors to use! now all i want are decent 2d iso graphics that will look ok and not send players running away screaming, so wit hthat in mind what are everybodys suggestions?

Depends on what systems you want it to run. My basic suggestion is 800x600 in 16bpp. Since most sytems today runs quite fast in that res. But if you want a bit better graphics and to demand a bit more of the gfx-card you can.
Don''t forget to check that the system can run on your resolution (It was a long time ago I last saw a card that couldn''t run in 800x600x16 but it could happen). Use EnumDisplaySettings() to check for valid resolutions it also not wrong to have another res if your preferred should fail.



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