I need to get a text output with the video card / GPU model, using any tool existing in all Windows versions from XP onwards (unlikely, I haven't found anything yet) or using any small command line third party tool.
Any ideas?
Many times you can find the manufacturer name, model, serial number, or other unique identifying information that can be used to identify the video card or video chipset you have. The picture below is an example of an AGP video card.
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does the job concisely from commmand line. Thanks to Vlastimil Ovčáčík's answer above but not sure why its so verbose.
- Copy this and save to your desktop as videoCardScript.ps1
- Click Start then type
powershell
and then press enter - type
cd ~Desktop
then press enter - type
videoCardScript.ps1
then press enter - note: if you receive an error mentioning ...cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. you may need to change your execution policy with the following command in powershell:
Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted
. ****Ensure you do the following command when complete to maintain the security of your system:**
Set-ExecutionPolicy restricted
If you're interested in getting more info you can comment out the del dxoutput.xml
command by adding a #
in front of it. You can then look at the contents of the xml file that's saved to your desktop and can adjust accordingly. If you want to remove some info in the script you can always comment out those specific lines or remove them entirely.
PS- you may see multiple of the same cards. There's a reason I have the Output Type included here: a card will show multiples based on how many outputs it can support. In my case mine shows DVI (self explanatory) and HD15 (which is VGA).
PSS- I ran this on a Windows 8 machine. There's a possibility you may need to install powershell on the XP machines. They'll need to have Service Pack 3 installed and then you can install Powershell from here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968929 (Windows Management Framework (Windows PowerShell 2.0, WinRM 2.0, and BITS 4.0))
Identify Video Card By Serial Number Lookup
copy this code into a .VBS
file and run it with cscript.exe
:
Here is the output of my Dell Laptop: