Changing Color Depth

I need to change the color depth of an external monitor, but it seems this has been removed from 10.6! How can I change the color depth of an external monitor? Thanks!

You can improve the framerate only if your application is fillrate limited, if it is polygon limited you will see no difference.
But yes often you get increased framerates, but beware that using 16 bit colours will on NVidia mean you also use 16 bit Z-Buffer, which can lead to annoying rendering artifacts.
You have two ways to set the colours:
1) Change desktop colours to whatever you wanna use.
2) Use exclusive fullscreen mode, and set colours.
How about rewarding me some duke dollars for that answer? :)

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I'm using ARD 3.2 on Mac Pros running 10.4.11.
First of all, I'm not asking about changing the color depth when viewing a screen with ARD. I would like to adjust the color depth when using the "*Share Screen...*" feature to put my screen on 10 other machines for demo purposes.
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[-f] : forces settings (ignores safety mechanisms; USE AT YOUR OWN RISK)
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<edited by host>

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See Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
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In my first post there is a link to the code I am talking about. The code is public and available. It was created by Noel Gorelick at ASU. It is based on having an 8-bit Xserver running. There are few users of this code, but I completely agree with you that a new generation of unix-based imaging code needs to be developed that is system and Xserver independent. Optimal code should detect screen depth and open windows with desired color depth automatically, without "flashing.". That way, it could even run under Gnome, which allocates all but 18 8-bit colors for the desktop. Under CDE, the code allocates 224 colors for itself, which is great. The above code will create its own colormap if it cannot allocate enough colors, but there is flashing in that case. Have at it if you wish.
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Minor correction... I called my GPU the FireGL, which is the old market name.. The current, proper market name is FirePro.. same line, just new branding after AMD purchased ATI.

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