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Display Drivers Included with Windows 95 and Supported Modes

Article ID: 122710

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006

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SUMMARY

This article provides information about the display drivers included with Windows 95 and the supported modes of those drivers.

Colors are described in bits per pixel (bpp), the following table lists the bpp-to-colors conversion: 
   1bpp  = Monochrome
   4bpp  = 16 colors
   8bpp  = 256 colors
   15bpp = 32,768 (32K) colors
   16bpp = 65536 (64K) colors
   24bpp = 16.7 million colors
   32bpp = 4.2 billion (4GB) colors
Resolutions are described in horizontal number of pixels multiplied by (x) vertical number of pixels.

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Standard Graphics Adapter (VGA)

Modes supported: 
   640x480 - Monochrome/16 colors

SuperVGA

Modes supported: 
   640x480  - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   800x600  - colors: 16/256/64K
   1024x768 - colors:    256

ATI VGA Wonder

Modes supported: 
   640x480  - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   800x600  - colors: 16/256/64K
   1024x768 - colors:    256

ATI Mach 8

Modes supported: 
   640x480  - colors: 16/256
   800x600  - colors: 16/256
   1024x768 - colors:    256

ATI Mach 32

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   800x600   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   1024x768  - colors: 16/256/64K
   1280x1024 - colors: 16/256/64K

ATI Mach 64

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M/4G
   800x600   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M/4G
   1024x768  - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M/4G
   1280x1024 - colors: 16/256/64K

Chips & Technologies Super VGA

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256
   800x600   - colors: 16/256
   1024x768  - colors:    256

Chips & Technologies Accelerator

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   800x600   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   1024x768  - colors: 16/256/64K
   1280x1024 - colors:    256

Cirrus Logic

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   800x600   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   1024x768  - colors: 16/256/64K
   1280x1024 - colors:    256

Cirrus Logic Laptop

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256
   800x600   - colors: 16/256
   1024x768  - colors:    256
   1280x1024 - colors:    256

Cirrus Logic 5429/5434

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   800x600   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   1024x768  - colors:    256/64K/16.7M
   1280x1024 - colors:    256

Compaq Qvision

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256/64K/4G
   800x600   - colors: 16/256/64K
   1024x768  - colors:    256 64K
   1280x1024 - colors:    256

Compaq Advanced VGA (AVGA)

Modes supported: 
   640x480 - colors: 16/256
   800x600 - colors: 16

Oak Technology

Modes supported: 
   640x480  - colors: 16/256
   800x600  - colors: 16/256
   1024x768 - colors:    256

S3 Inc. 911/924

Modes supported: 
   640x480  - colors: 16/256/64K
   800x600  - colors: 16/256/64K
   1024x768 - colors:    256

S3 Inc. 801/928/964

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   800x600   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   1024x768  - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   1280x1024 - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   1600x1200 - colors:    256

Trident Microsystems

Modes supported: 
   640x480  - colors: 16/256
   800x600  - colors: 16/256
   1024x768 - colors:    256

Tseng Labs ET4000

Modes supported: 
   640x480  - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   800x600  - colors: 16/256/64K
   1024x768 - colors:    256

Tseng Labs w32

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   800x600   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   1024x768  - colors: 16/256
   1280x1024 - colors:    256

Video Seven VRAM / VRAM II / 1024i

Modes supported: 
   640x480  - colors: 16/256
   800x600  - colors: 16/256
   1024x768 - colors:    256

Western Digital

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   800x600   - colors: 16/256/64K/16.7M
   1024x768  - colors: 16/256
   1280x1024 - colors:    256

XGA

Modes supported: 
   640x480   - colors: 16/256/64K
   1024x768  - colors: 16/256

XGA/2

Modes supported: 
   640x480  - colors: 16/256/64K
   800x600  - colors:    256
   1024x768 - colors: 16/256

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