Amount of memory on a video card?

Is there a way to get the amount of memory on a video card using some API call?

I have been looking for a while but have not been able to find anything?

If all else fails I am thinking about creating a DDraw device and checking it that way. But I would really like to find a better way of doing this.

Please help.

you should post this in the graphics forum, there they know all about dx and other technologies

See if this does anything for you

http://www.vbexplorer.com/gamearticles/ddraw.asp

If you have WMI available (2000, XP) then try the Win32_VideoController class.