Macbook color settings only allow 'Millions' of colors

I need to change the color setting to 'thousands' in order to use an application (game called ISPY). In the menu option, my macbook only allows 'Millions' of colors. How can I change this?

Not that this may matter...my iMac does allow the thousands setting. Coming from the pc world that would be a video driver issue. In the mac world I am not sure if you can "update" your video driver specifically.

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I still recommend you to check the local group policy setting “Limit maximum color depth” on the Terminal Server side. Based on your description of Group Policy Object Editor, I suspect the loss of Terminal Services folder is caused by system.adm file not loaded successfully. Please try to fix it via the following steps:
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P

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