If your monitor resolution is 640 x 480 and not at least 800 x 600, you won't be able to see all the larger photos and graphics on your screen at one time. Here's how to reset your monitor resolution if you don't know how. Virtual Darwin is a graphics-intensive Web site. Here's how to speed up your modem if it's slower than 33.6k. How to disable compressed graphics Way back when 14.4k bps modems were state of the art, AOL came up with a proprietary compression scheme for making Web graphics and photos load faster.
Problem is that it makes art look blurry and off register.
Worse yet, it is incompatible with some images created by Adobe Photoshop and other programs, corrupting them, displaying them randomly filled with strange-looking blocks and weird spiral shapes. The only downside to turning off compressed graphics is that the graphics will load a little slower, but they'll be in focus. Once you do turn off compressed graphics, you won't believe what you've been missing. You're not deleting anything important. Just files saved in the browser's cache.