Simple question about Enumerating DD

[ice & fire]

Just a short and simple Question:

You use:

Set dd = dx.DirectDrawCreate("") 'Init with Standard Adapter

to init DirectDraw, right?

I now want to fill a listbox with all the possible Graphics Adapters. (Primary Graphics Device, Voodoo 5 5500 3DfX, .....)

Well, it should then look like:

Set dd = dx.DirectDrawCreate("MyBloodyAdapter")

How do I do that?
Please help me..

[Sastraxi]

You can use an instance of Direct3D to help you with that enumeration. Use the GetAdapterName function somewhere in D3D and then find out all the capabilities of the cards, etc. in it, and then you can just pass that GUID to DirectDraw. If you want, I can send you over a class module that I made that enumerates adapters and picks the best one (checks FSAA, highest resolution, and T&L acceleration). I'm planning on adding True Alpha, Z-Buffer support, and simple framerate tests to factor into the selection.

[ice & fire]

thx, did it!

[ice & fire]

I´ve written one just now.
It´s easy! It does the following:

Look, whether DirectX is installed. Install 8.1 if necessary, load list of possible adapters in a combo and all their abillities in some array. Then it uses EnumDirectX to find out, which is best.
Then it lets th user choose (Z-Buffer, Triple Buffer, Resolution,.....) and passes the params to my game.
Based on these two progs:


http://64.23.12.52//Downloads/DirectX7/dld_dx_Enum.zip
http://64.23.12.52//Downloads/DirectX7/dld_dd_Enum.zip