If there anyway to get the video card vendor information (ie glGetString(GL_RENDERER)) without having an open openGL window.. I just want to display this information in a windows dialog.. If I call it on its own it just returns NULL as the string.. any ideas.. Cheers Chris Jumpman - Under Construction

It will return NULL until you have a rendering context.

thanks for the quick reply

i tried

HDC hDC = GetDC(m_hWnd); // my applications window
HGLRC hRC = wglCreateContext(hDC);
const unsigned char *pT = glGetString(GL_RENDERER);
wglDeleteContext(hRC);
ReleaseDC(m_hWnd, hDC);

but still returned NULL..