How to Make a colour monitor use black and white?

Maniacal · Jan 19, 2006, 09:04 PM

I heard that you could turn off the colour and just use black and white, if so, how?

Speedo · Jan 19, 2006, 10:48 PM

You would have to do it through your video card's drivers, I would think. I don't see an option in mine though. Why the heck would you want to, anyway?

Dell19 · Jan 20, 2006, 07:30 AM

As a joke?

VRWCAgent · Jan 20, 2006, 10:17 AM

Well, I never see computers monitors that have them, but I suppose if they did, you could do it at the monitor if they had color controls like the old TVs had on the front of them. Just 'dial back' the color until all it shows is shades of gray.

I wish you had mentioned this earlier. I finally got around to getting rid of a gazillion old computer system parts that I've been accumulating over the years. Two items were a monochrome monitor and an 8-bit ISA Hercules monochrome video adapter.

Maniacal · Jan 20, 2006, 07:07 PM

I read that it could be done in a comment thread on this Call of Duty mod that made most of the game look like old black and white movies.

Speedo · Jan 21, 2006, 09:38 AM

That person was probably thinking of a demo that Valve did several months ago with Day of Defeat: Source. They were demonstrating several new graphics technologies that they were working on, one of which was an effect to make the game black & white and grainy looking, like an old movie. That was done through the game engine, though.

Comraddict · Jan 21, 2006, 05:23 PM

ati's smart shader will let you do so.

Maniacal · Jan 21, 2006, 10:47 PM

What about with a FX5200?

Jan 19, 2006, 09:04 PM	#1
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Jan 20, 2006, 10:17 AM	#4
VRWCAgent Powered by bacon grease! Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: See Signature Posts: 25,115 Images: 2	Well, I never see computers monitors that have them, but I suppose if they did, you could do it at the monitor if they had color controls like the old TVs had on the front of them. Just 'dial back' the color until all it shows is shades of gray. I wish you had mentioned this earlier. I finally got around to getting rid of a gazillion old computer system parts that I've been accumulating over the years. Two items were a monochrome monitor and an 8-bit ISA Hercules monochrome video adapter. __________________ "Who needs the UN when you have aircraft carriers?" - Me My Location: FIFTYCHAT, BABY, FIFTYCHAT!!!, Butler, Bates County, Missouri, USA, North America, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Earth, Sol System, Local Fluff, Local Bubble, Orion Arm, Milky Way, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Observable Universe, Universe, Multiverse, All of Creation

Jan 20, 2006, 07:07 PM	#5
Maniacal the green Napoleon Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 17,304	I read that it could be done in a comment thread on this Call of Duty mod that made most of the game look like old black and white movies. __________________ Civilization Fanatics Steam Usergroup (I am) Fresh Prince of Buckingham \| Game Sales & Bargains Thread Insults are the last refuge of the out-argued.

Jan 21, 2006, 10:47 PM	#8
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Jan 19, 2006, 10:48 PM	#2
Speedo Esse Quam Videri Join Date: May 2003 Location: NC USA Posts: 4,891	You would have to do it through your video card's drivers, I would think. I don't see an option in mine though. Why the heck would you want to, anyway?

Jan 21, 2006, 09:38 AM	#6
Speedo Esse Quam Videri Join Date: May 2003 Location: NC USA Posts: 4,891	That person was probably thinking of a demo that Valve did several months ago with Day of Defeat: Source. They were demonstrating several new graphics technologies that they were working on, one of which was an effect to make the game black & white and grainy looking, like an old movie. That was done through the game engine, though.

Jan 21, 2006, 05:23 PM	#7
Comraddict C.IV Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Iowa Posts: 1,697	ati's smart shader will let you do so.

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