Hi, I want to detect a computer''s gfx card and the CPU model & speed. To make it short, something like this should be my final output string: "Pentium 3 500, nVidia TNT2 Ultra" The Win32 API functions doesn''t even provide enough infos to clearly identify the CPU model. And EnumDisplaySettings doesn''t set the driver name field of the DEVMODE structure. Could your provide me with any code or point me in the right direction ??? Thanx Tim -------------------------- glvelocity.gamedev.net www.gamedev.net/hosted/glvelocity

well, there''s a win32 function to detect the proccessor type. I don''t remember this function. to detect the cpu speed, you can use this code that I got from a similar post:

    DWORD GetCpuSpeed(){	int				timeStart	= 0;	int				timeStop	= 0;	unsigned long   StartTicks	= 0;	unsigned long   EndTicks	= 0;	unsigned long   TotalTicks	= 0;	unsigned long   cpuSpeed	= 0;	timeStart = timeGetTime();				// Get tick edge	for( ; ; )	{		timeStop = timeGetTime();		if ( (timeStop-timeStart) > 1 )		// rollover past 1		{			__asm{				xor    eax, eax					xor    ebx, ebx					xor    ecx, ecx					xor    edx, edx					_emit  0x0f				// CPUID					_emit  0xa2					_emit  0x0f				// RTDSC					_emit  0x31					mov    [StartTicks], eax	// Tick counter starts here			}			break;		}	}	timeStart = timeStop;		for( ; ; )	{		timeStop = timeGetTime();		if ( (timeStop-timeStart) > 1000 )	// one second		{			__asm{				xor    eax, eax					xor    ebx, ebx					xor    ecx, ecx					xor    edx, edx					_emit  0x0f					_emit  0xa2					_emit  0x0f					_emit  0x31					mov    [EndTicks], eax			}			break;			}	}	TotalTicks = EndTicks-StartTicks;		// total 	cpuSpeed = TotalTicks/1000000;			// speed	return((DWORD)cpuSpeed);}    

as for the type of graphics card and vender, if you''re using OpengL you can just use glGetString(GL_RENDERER), and glGetString(GL_VENDOR) to detect the renderer and the vendor.

JoeMont001@aol.com www.polarisoft.n3.net

For the name, but not the speed or capabilities of an item, you might (not actually sure if this works ) want to look in (assuming this program will run in windows only) the registry values around HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\hardware\

I found alot of info, but didn''t find my own video card in there, so, not sure if this is all that great of an idea

    SYSTEM_INFO siSysInfo;GetSystemInfo(&siSysInfo); char string[200];sprintf(string,"Number of Processors: %u\nProcessor Type: %u",siSysInfo.dwNumberOfProcessors,siSysInfo.dwProcessorType);    

This should give you some information, though I haven''t tried it, I adapted it from something I found in my Borland references.

You can get info about your video card with lpDDraw->GetDeviceIdentifier()



The road to success is always under construction

Edited by - Tornado on September 10, 2000 2:18:53 PM

Hi !

Thanks all. I can now obtain the Mhz value, but my main problem is to get the gfx card. I don''t want to use this in an OpenGL or D3D app, so does anyone know a way without using a 3D API ?

The GetSystemInfo function only returns informations such as X86 class, so I can''t tell the difference between Athlon/P2/P3/Celeron etc.

Thanx

Tim

--------------------------
glvelocity.gamedev.net
www.gamedev.net/hosted/glvelocity

Null an Void:

The problem is (as you aready realized ;-) ) that those informations are hard to find / parse in the registry. And I heard that NT has a different registry when it comes to hw config issues. And I can''t test my code much on NT systems, but it should work on those. My main problem remains those gfx card detection...


Tim

--------------------------
glvelocity.gamedev.net
www.gamedev.net/hosted/glvelocity