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I converted my main workstation at home to a virtual machine, and started connecting to it via RDP from a thin client machine. I found that images didn’t look quite right, and had banding instead of proper gradients. The color depth was set to 16-bit and couldn’t be raised, even when setting the depth higher using the RDP client.

Remote Desktop server on Windows XP, by default runs at a maximum 16-bit color depth. However up to 24-bit color is supported. Read the rest of this entry »