Ok, I;m trying to get into THE FASTEST possible VGA mode of 1024x768 32/24bpp...well I want to do it in C since I can't seem to fully understand ASM (although I've gotten very far)

ASM is just to hard when everything is so complex these days!

Well, can anyone help me out?

mode itself doesn't have speed. You mean fastest screen refresh rate, or fastest drawing routines, or what?

I want fastest drawing routines...refresh rate would be nice too, but I'm looking for mainly drawing speed right now!

I want refresh rates of at least 60 hz too.

The fastest possible VGA mode you are wanting would be defined by the VESA BIOS. Using the VESA API calls, you will gain access to a linear frame buffer and switch to that mode.

Unfortunatly the VESA API is not defined for C unless you have a runtime for the environment you are trying to launch it from (like DOS).

Anyway, once have the mode set and the base address of the linear framebuffer, you can use old-school VGA programming techniques to get pixels onto the screen. (this method is the slowest though, hardware support for various drawing routines are available on all modern screen cards but you need to know the API for each card out there to write something portable, thus DirectDraw and drivers for each screen card . Have a look at some linux drivers to get a feel for the API for some more commen cards.

The VESA bios usually ships as part of the screen card's BIOS. Make sure the machine supports the VESA bios (at least version 2) before testing anything VESA on it.

You want the fastest routines - but you want to "do it in C" - do you want us to simply supply graphic routines as C code?

If I were you, I'd settle for less before setting such a goal. There are *alot* of graphics guides out there, 50% of them in C. You will not have the fastest routines on the first go, but fortunately playing with your own graphic routines is alot more fun than debugging your memory manager.

If you want "the fastest" video, go for DirectX.It's the API with the best hardware support and the most features.

f0dder: This is the OS Construction forum, not the Windows forum..

lol DirectX you don't have when making your own OS. And if its pmode OS you don't have VESA API either. In fact, sad to say, you have to write all SVGA or XGA routines... yourself! And unfortunately, there is no standard for these to speak of, different vendors use their own programming methods. So... good luck! And welcome to the world of OSDev.