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Speedsys Video Card Identification

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First post, by boxpressed

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I'm sorting through a bunch of old ISA and PCI video cards and would like to label them properly.

Is the Speedsys identification reliable? Is it just reading the name of the card off the card's BIOS? And is this what GPU-Z would do?

Using Speedsys would be easier because I could use my DOS test bench and save a lot of bootup time.

Reply 1 of 4, by mpe

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There is no detection. I think speedsys just prints info returned by VESA VBE (vendor, product and memory). it is usually fine but you wont get any details about configuration, gpu/mem clock, etc.

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Reply 2 of 4, by boxpressed

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mpe wrote on 2020-05-10, 21:26:

There is no detection. I think speedsys just prints info returned by VESA VBE (vendor, product and memory). it is usually fine but you wont get any details about configuration, gpu/mem clock, etc.

Thanks -- that's what I figured. I don't need more info than that for making this spreadsheet, so it'll do just fine.

Reply 3 of 4, by kixs

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Alternatively just read the label on the biggest chip 🤣 Old cards didn't have any heatsinks...

For better ID use NSSI instead of SpeedSYS.

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Reply 4 of 4, by boxpressed

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kixs wrote on 2020-05-10, 21:57:

Alternatively just read the label on the biggest chip 🤣 Old cards didn't have any heatsinks...

For better ID use NSSI instead of SpeedSYS.

I didn't know about NSSI -- will try it out, thanks!

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