Obtain Video Card Name, Size, etc. in C++

You can use the graphics APIs to do this. In OpenGL it's glGetString() and I'm sure DirectX can do the same thing.

The previous reply is from me. Does anyone know why the forum logs me out while I'm replying? This is like the 2nd time in 2 days... Anyway... hope you found it useful :)

I've found the forum logs you out if you have a long (don't know the exact time length, probably about 15 minutes or so) period of inactivity, ie. not browsing or looking at articles, etc, so if you take a long time to type your posts, or a long time to collect the information you use in your post, well, it could happen. That's my hypothesis, anyway. I get logged out when I leave firefox on with GNnet up while playing WoW, for example.

I've found glGetString(GL_RENDERER) to return the name of the video card, but it displays some of its features, as well.

I'm trying to figure out a way to strip off the extra things (such as AGP, MMX, SSE, etc.) to have just a clear string of the card name such as (what I am using to test) it displays "GeForce FX 5600/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!" without any formatting or whatnot, and I'd like to have it displayed as "GeForce FX 5600" - only problem I have noticed, though. My nVidia card might be displayed as so, but an ATi card may be displayed like "Radeon 7000 DDR x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE", so they are not the same formatting.

How about parsing the string to delete anything from the '/' onwards? Of course, this would fail given a slightly different string, so it's rather pointless to try to parse, because it might fail to parse correctly on a differently formatted string. Just my thoughts.