description of the current GFX card in use?

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Damien Sturdy

(Posted 2006) [#1]

Hi,

I was wondering how I would go about getting the "name" of the current graphics card/renderer in use?

For instance ,"Render Device = Sprite Nvidia 7600GS" or whatnot.

Thanks for your help :)

TartanTangerine (was Indiepath)

(Posted 2006) [#2]

Device Caps I think

Damien Sturdy

(Posted 2006) [#3]

Cheers. Any info on this? I'm at work at the mo and can't do much about it but i'd like to see how i'd go about it.

TartanTangerine (was Indiepath)

(Posted 2006) [#4]

I seem to remember someone posted some code a while ago on how to read the Caps into a structure.

Damien Sturdy

(Posted 2006) [#5]

Hmm, I did a search and found nothing. I guess I will have to poke around a bit later when I get back to my MAX PC.

I didn't know the dev caps returned the name of the device though, just caps to say it does or doesnt do cubemapping and other functions...

Aha... maybe... *checks WIKI*

tonyg

(Posted 2006) [#6]

There's a private function called enum_devices_callback which uses the devicedesc including the device name.

ozak	(Posted 2006) [#7]

Much easier in OpenGL where it's a simple query :)

Damien Sturdy

(Posted 2006) [#8]

Ok, i've looked. No idea about Enum_Devices_callback. It seems you're talking about Windows API here-

Ozak.. Where may I find this query?

ozak	(Posted 2006) [#9]

glGetString with constants GL_VENDOR and GL_RENDERER etc.

http://www.mevis.de/opengl/glGetString.html

Damien Sturdy

(Posted 2006) [#10]

Gah, thats just ID numbers not the hardware name. better than nowt, but I don't fancy creating a list of all the cards in existence :)

Cheers anyway. I'm looking to get the true name of the graphics card in the system.

In my system it this is "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS"

I need it at the moment because I want to bypass ogres "Hardware changed" dialogue by replacing the line in the config with the current hardware and using my own default values.

I need to avoid the windows API if at all possible :)

tonyg

(Posted 2006) [#11]

SetGraphicsDriver GLMax2DDriver()
Graphics 800 , 600
Local my:Byte Ptr = glGetString(GL_RENDERER) 
Local name:String = String.FromCString(my)	
Print name

might need some trimming.

Damien Sturdy

(Posted 2006) [#12]

Ah, right, Sorry guys, i misread the given information.

Thanks Ozak, and Thanks TonyG :D Thats exactly what I need!