Graphics Preferences  

In the Main Menu, select File | Graphics.

Most users will never need to change the settings in this window. These are only used when the 3D tooth chart is not working properly. You can switch to the simple tooth chart if you are using a remote connection, such as Microsoft Terminal Services, GoToMyPC, etc. The simple tooth chart will eliminate all slowness issues over the remote connection. But the tooth chart will not look as nice.  Instead of 3D graphics, it will use simpler 2D graphics. MS does not currently support 3D graphics over terminal services.

The settings are specific only to the computer where you are working.  This allows you to set different graphics preferences for each computer.

Explanation of terminology (you can skip this section):

Hardware Acceleration: Use this if you have a graphics card.  If instead, you have a graphics controller that is integrated into the motherboard, you might not use this option.  In pratice, it works best to simply try it both ways to see which gives you the best result.

Double Buffering: The redraw of the graphics is hidden in a second buffer. This eliminates flicker.

Windowed: Can be drawn on the screen. There are some graphics formats that cannot be drawn to the screen.

Palette: Instead of millions of colors, there is just a small palette of colors available.

Depth bits: This is how the coordinates on the Z axis are stored. If there are not enough depth bits available, overlapping doesn't work properly.

Color bits: The more the better.