getting the current refresh rate

[gfiorani]

Does anyone know of a function that can retrieve the refresh rate (in Hz) of the current display in Win9x? I looked long and hard, but came up empty handed. I tried using EnumDisplaySettings, and checking dmFrequency, but this doesn't seem to be what I am looking for. Thanks in advance.

[unformed]

i did this:

DEVMODE devmode;
EnumDisplaySettings(NULL, ENUM_CURRENT_SETTINGS, &devmode);
cout << devmode.dmDisplayFrequency;

and it worked fine, returning 85 for the current Hz.

[gfiorani]

That's odd. I tried it again and dmDisplayFrequency still gives me zero. Does that mean default or something? I have no idea, this is all still new to me. Thanks anyway.

[abdul]

I think it means optimal or defaut adaptar refresh rate. Try changing your refresh rate to a number and then running the code.

[MPrestonf12]

i tried that code as well and got 0. I called getlast error and recieved error 120 which means its not supported by my system yet im running Win 98.?? Do you know whats going on ? thanks

[unformed]

don't know why it doesn't work, it should work on Win95+ and WinNT3.51+ ... though I wrote it on WinXP, and also tested it on Win2000 ... I don't have a Win98 box I can run it on though...

[abdul]

I just checked it now and I am also getting 0
I am running win98 SE