VideoAdapters

Description

This table lists video adapters from all Windows computers. Some fields are not not available for Windows 9x computers.

Fields

Field name

Data type

Description

id_snapshot

number

Identifier of the network snapshot.

server_name

string

Netbios name of the server without the two preceding backslash characters.

DeviceDescription

string

Commonly used name of the video adapter

BiosString

string

String to identify the BIOS (manufacturer, version and so on)

ChipType

string

Type of video processor

AdapterString

string

String to identify the adapter

DacType

string

Type of DAC

VideoMemory

number

Size of video memory in kB

xResolution

number

Horizontal resolution

yResolution

number

Vertical resolution

RefreshRate

number

Vertical refresh rate in Hz (1)

BitsPerPixel

number

Number of bits used by one pixel (2)

PnpInstanceID

string

 

(1) With some adapters (in particular the standard vga device) the RefreshRate is equal to 1. This means 60 Hz.

(2) correspondence between bits per pixel and number of colors.

Bits

Colors

4

16

8

256

16

65536

24

16 millions

32

16 millions