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Reputation: 31

How to get the driver version of a display device?

how could we get the driver version of a display device programmingly? we can get information of the Display Device by running the command "DxDiag", including (1) the card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX745;(2) Manufacturer:(3) NVIDIA, and the Driver name;(4) the driver File version:23.21.13.9077 (this number of 23.21.13.9077 is exactly what we want).

the program need to tell the least driver version number of a display device in case of program crash. this driver version leads to program crash. here i want to hint the user to upgrading driver version in case of program crashing.

Edit: Actually the driver version of the display device is different from the OpenGL version (which can retrieved by using glGetString(GL_VERSION)).

Here the link describe the problem in details if you have further interest.

any help is very thankful!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1326

Answers (1)

darune
darune

Reputation: 11022

How to get the driver version of a display device?

This, I believe, can be done using setupapi.h

https://learn.microsoft.com/da-dk/windows/desktop/api/setupapi/

and see also this subpage:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/setupapi/nf-setupapi-setupdibuilddriverinfolist

See also this answer, that is somewhat related to how you 'navigate' the API:

How to get device properties in windows in c++?

Upvotes: 1

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