Hello,

How is it possible to retrieve the video card's video RAM size?

Thank you,
Dmitri Papichev

Use IDirectDraw::GetCaps

Feng Yuan  ( for the GDI book to read, check www.fengyuan.com )

Hello,

Thank you, Feng.
Is there any other way to accomplish that, without DirectX stuff involved?

Dmitri Papichev

Get the video card settings with EnumDisplaySettings.
Calculate the amount of RAM from (width * height * colours).

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  DeviceMode: TDeviceMode;
  i, m, max: Integer;
begin
  max := 0;
  i := 0;
  while EnumDisplaySettings(nil, i, DeviceMode) do
  begin
    with DeviceMode do
      m := Round(dmPelsWidth * dmPelsHeight * (dmBitsPerPel/8));
    if m > max then
      max := m;
    inc(i);
  end;
  ShowMessage(IntToStr(max));
end;
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Andreas
Delphi 5.01 Pro, NT4.0 Sp5
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Hello,

news:3AB7C0CA.819CD612@augsburg.netsurf.de...

Thank a lot, Andreas, I need something like this. I just hoped that there
might be some API call to retrieve the exact amount of video RAM. The only
issue here is that the code seems to work unstable, causing sometimes an
invalid page fault in USER32.DLL, I had no time to investigate it thoroughly
yet.

Best regards,
Dmitri Papichev