Version: 1.0

Posted: 2004-02-12

Build Requirements: N/A

Runtime Requirements: Mac OS X Mac OS X 10.2 or later

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Description

Video Hardware Info is a simple demonstration of how to query the video hardware for useful information from multiple different APIs. This simple Cocoa application pulls data such as total physical VRAM using Core Graphics APIs, retrieves hardware information such as device and model numbers from IOKit and 3D rendering infromation from OpenGL. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or later Keywords: Video Hardware OpenGL Quartz IOKit CoreGraphics VRAM

Document Revision History

Date Notes
2004-02-12Sample demonstrates how to query the video hardware for useful information.

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