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