How would i go about checking to see if a player has certain software installed, like DirectX 9.0?
Or if their video card supports shade Rendering 2.0?
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 Sep 8 2007, 6:07 pm (Edited on Sep 8 2007, 6:23 pm)
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I rather not say, its for my project, also I always wanted to know, for c++ as well.
So is there a way? I just want to check for it, if they don't have it, I would promt for a Download for it. | |
you can check hardware with VB i know for sure, which means most likely you can do it with c++
in VB u use the windows32 class i beleive | |
Well, of course you can check for it with C++...
I thought he was talking about in BYOND... I don't think this is useful for a BYOND program, but for a C++ program, yeah, it really is. You shouldn't have to tell your users where or how to get Dx9. Personally, I'm more a fan of OpenGL these days, and I'm all for games supporting BOTH rendering methods... Though, that's just me. I think there's a way to get the DirectX version included in the DXSDK libraries... But I don't delve in C++ much anymore, so I'm not the one to ask. If you are using the DirectX SDK you can check dxsdkver.h for further documentation. _DXSDK_BUILD_MAJOR _DXSDK_BUILD_MINOR _DXSDK_PRODUCT_MAJOR _DXSDK_PRODUCT_MINOR These constants contain the build and release versions of the DXSDK. The ones you want to use are _DXSDK_PRODUCT_MAJOR and PRODUCT_MINOR the major product version for 9.0c is 9, and the minor version, I think, is 4... Don't quote me on that, as I'm not 100% certain, but I think all you really gotta do is check those, and error out of the program if the user doesn't have this version of DirectX... I wouldn't REQUIRE them to have 9.0c, but I'd require they have >=9 >=04, that way, future builds of DirectX will also be compatible with your program. | |
My only question is why?