description of the current GFX card in use?

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 :)

Device Caps I think

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.

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

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*

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

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

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?

glGetString with constants GL_VENDOR and GL_RENDERER etc.

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

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 :)

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

might need some trimming.

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

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