Hi, I load an .png into memory using SDL and C++. The image has a very smooth background gradient, but when I load it and display it, the gradient consists of thick bars (10 px approximatly) that looks a bit greenish or redish -> apparently it cannot find the colour defined in the png and looks for the nearest colour. I guess it has something to do with bits per pixel, but I dont know how. This is the code (not everything is included):

#ifdef __cplusplus
    #include <cstdlib>
#else
    #include <stdlib.h>
#endif
#ifdef __APPLE__
#include <SDL/SDL.h>
#else
#include <SDL.h>
#endif

#include <SDL_image.h>

int main (int argc, char** argv)
{
bool done = false;

if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO|SDL_INIT_AUDIO) < 0)
    {
        printf("Unable to init SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
        return 1;
    }
    atexit(SDL_Quit);

SDL_Surface *screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(320, 120, 16, SDL_HWSURFACE|SDL_DOUBLEBUF|SDL_NOFRAME);
    if (!screen)
    {
        printf("Unable to set 640x480 video: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
        return 1;
    }

SDL_Surface *bg = IMG_Load("data/loading.png");

SDL_Rect dest;
dest.x = 0;
dest.y = 0;

while (!done)
    {
        SDL_Event event;
        while (SDL_PollEvent(&event))
        {
            switch (event.type)
            {
                case SDL_QUIT:
                {
                    done = true;
                    break;
                }

                case SDL_KEYDOWN:
                {
                    if (event.key.keysym.sym == SDLK_ESCAPE)
                    {
                        done = true;
                    }
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

        SDL_FillRect(screen, 0, color_bg);

        SDL_BlitSurface(bg, NULL, screen, &dest);

        SDL_Flip(screen);
    }

SDL_FreeSurface(bg);
return 0;
}

Thank you, Decrius

Lol, yes that was the problem.

Thanks, and sorry for me being stupid :P