Supported Hardware/Video cards
- VBE driver (vbemp.sys)
- supports only graphic cards supporting VESA BIOS version v2.0 and higher
- supports all available resolutions (640x480 and higher)
- supports all available color resolutions (8, 16, 24, 32 bits)
- VGA driver (vgamp.sys)
- supports a standard resolution of 640x480x4 (4 bit = 16 colors)
- its presence is necessary at all times, for emergency debug fallback
- Native driver
- this is Video Adapter's own Windows driver
Please update this page with the status of each Video card that is tested.
Possible statuses
Status | Description |
---|---|
Works | Works without any major problems |
Not tested | No test has been performed. |
Failed | Fails to work or crashes ROS |
Tested Video cards
Video | VGA | VESA | Native | Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|
3DFX Voodoo3 16MB | Works | Works | Failed | With VESA driver, supports up to 24bit color depth. Native driver doesnt work see bug no.4354 |
ATI Radeon HD 3100 Graphics | Works | Works | Failed | Rev.40825. Driver installation fails. ATI Catalyst™ 9.5 IGP Drivers |
ATI 3D Rage II+ | Not tested | Works | Works | Tested with Rev. 41228. Mouse cursor is not being drawn in VGA mode. |
Intel Extreme Graphics (integrated in the Intel 845GE chipset) | Works | Works | Not tested | |
Matrox MGA-100 AGP 2MB | Works | Works | Works | Minor issues, see bug no.4563 |
NVIDIA GeForce 5200 128MB | Works | Works | Failed | Out of frequency monitor message when loading third stage (Black Screen). |
NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4200 128MB | Works | Works | Failed | Drivers do not install |
NVIDIA TNT2 Model 64 32MB | Works | Works | Not tested | |
VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP 64MB (KM400) | Works | Works | Failed | Rev.40825. Driver installation fails. KM400/KM266 PRO/P4M800 Chipset VGA Driver for WinXP/ Win2000 |
S3 Trio64+ | Works | Failed | Failed | Doesnt support VESA 2.0. For VGA, please see point 3 of "Known Issues". With native XP drivers, see bug no.4354 |
S3 VIRGE 86c325 | Works | Failed | Not tested | Doesnt support VESA 2.0. For VGA, please see point 3 of "Known Issues". |
VM QEMU Cirrus CL-54xx | Works | Works | Works | Requires ReactOS VESA driver being present at all times, see bug no.2286 |
VM VirtualBox Video | Works | Works | Works | Own driver starts up in 640x480x8, but supports all modes up to 1024x768x32. Necessary for Vbox OpenGL 3d host acceleration passthrough |
VM VMWARE Video | Works | Works | Works | Is known to lock up 2nd stage while being installed, sometimes, see bug no.2666 |
Known issues
1. VESA Driver accepts only VESA 2.0 compatible adapters.
2. Some INF files have both Windows 2000 and XP sections, with separate drivers for both. When trying to install Win2k driver version, Reactos is being detected as XP, thus XP driver is attempted to be installed, even though its driver file may be missing in Win2k driver directory. As Reactos doesnt fail when copying nonexistant file, successful installation is reported, alas driver file is not copied to system32\driver directory. This will cause "Successful install, please restart" window to appear at every boot.
3. VGA driver, if chosen is known to fallback to VESA at 3rd stage. See bug 4192