Hello, I was wondering if there was any way I could write a C# program that would test for the following features on a video card: 3d acceleration amount of memory video hw transform and lighting video hw rasterization pixel shader version vertex shader version I think DirectX can do it but I need a way that would not require DirectX. I've taken a look through the forum archives and came accross these threads: http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=332735 http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=152450 It seems like the only ways I can find out these things about the video card is to use DirectX or do benchmarking. Is this correct? I've also taken a look at WMI but that doesn't seem to return the things that I'm looking for. Thanks in advance, Mark

Another thing, I've tried finding out whether or not the card supports 3d acceleration with the WMI through the CIM_VideoController AcceleratorCapabilities properties but it's returning a null value.

Anyone have an idea on what the problem might be?

Thanks again,
Mark

Whoops, I thought I was posting in a general programming forum. I apologize for my n00b mistake :).