18 bit nonsense

[NerdRage]

I recently got a brand-spanking new Radeon HD 3650 AGP videocard, i formatted my HD and re-installed windows and FL and everything i had.

so i try turning on the ENB series mod, it sucked, but i have a bigger problem, backgrounds and effects are all 18/16 bit, so all gradients loose colours, well, i'm no good at explaining so i'll show you, as well as reflections on my ship like ive never seen before:



I go to options and see two new checkboxes under "peformance" ive never seen before:

18-bit dither and environment maps, i turn off 18bit dither and restart the computer, yet it still lacks the colours in-between.

so i re-activated disco and coulden't find the D3D8 file i'm supposed to remove when not using ENB. i thought it was somehow removed for me.

Any help on how to fix this bug?

(mind you, when i start FL it says it can't recognise my VC, and when i try to update my ATI drivers it says it can't find drivers sutable for my OS, i'm useing windows pro SP2 with the newest .NET framework and some updates)

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