Hi, I would like to display information about the system my OpenGL application is running on. So if the user opens the info dialog, it should say: OpenGL -verion: 1.1 -videocard: nvidia riva i have searched newsgroups and on the internet, but wasn''t able to find anything, but it know it exists. can anybody help me with a link or some code, many tnx.

glGetString(GL_VERSION);
glGetString(GL_VENDOR);

is there also a way to do this in C++ win32?

i need this information, and the name of the videocard/driver and the running OS...

In a word: no. Windows (2000 and above) won''t let you tamper with the video card directly. Solution: write your own drivers. Why would want to get the OpenGL version if you''re presuming OpenGL drivers aren''t installed at all? glGetString() is what you''re looking for - works both for Windows and Linux. As for the OS version, consider this for Windows:




PS - doesn''t matter in which language (C++, Java, etc) you''re calling the functions in, the results are the same - there are only syntactic differences.

Hope this helps,
Crispy

considering the opengl info, tnx, i was to fast, this works perfect. also regarding the os version tnx, i''ll check it out directly...