Thread: Pull system information and compare.

What operating system are you using?

Originally Posted by DeadPlanet

What operating system are you using?

Windows 7 & 8.
From looking further into this I'm not even sure if it is possible.

When you open up the device manager you can see a list of your hardware. Therefore it's possible.

It's just a matter of how easy/accessible it is.

Originally Posted by DeadPlanet

When you open up the device manager you can see a list of your hardware. Therefore it's possible.

It's just a matter of how easy/accessible it is.

Hmm. Well, I'm still trying to figure this out..

Originally Posted by pixalen

Figured out a way haha, sorry for useless thread.

Was able to use sys/utsname.h and uname_pointer

Not useless! Actually, posting a wee bit more info, like where you found that info, the documentation for said function, a small example code, etc, would be immensely helpful for the next person who comes looking through our forum for answers to the same question.

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum Registry Tree (Windows Drivers)

This should help. Use regedit and have a look under there to see if it has the information you're looking for. There are many functions for accessing the registry once you find where the information is.

For all the popular and well-known libraries there tends to be freely available documentation available online or otherwise. There are sometimes books which provide a sort of walkthrough introduction to the topic. For example all of the Windows API is documented at MSDN but that's not an easy way to step into it. A good introductory book (although it might be slightly old now, it's good for basics) for the Windows API is Petzold's Programming Windows.

For this particular application unless you really want to use a GUI you don't really need to know THAT much about the Windows API. Just the registry access functions are required (Registry Functions (Windows)) and they are fairly simple so long as you have a decent grasp of C.

Originally Posted by DeadPlanet

For all the popular and well-known libraries there tends to be freely available documentation available online or otherwise. There are sometimes books which provide a sort of walkthrough introduction to the topic. For example all of the Windows API is documented at MSDN but that's not an easy way to step into it. A good introductory book (although it might be slightly old now, it's good for basics) for the Windows API is Petzold's Programming Windows.

For this particular application unless you really want to use a GUI you don't really need to know THAT much about the Windows API. Just the registry access functions are required (Registry Functions (Windows)) and they are fairly simple so long as you have a decent grasp of C.

Will probably go check out that book, since I'm in the process of learning C and have no literature to fall back on. (hence posting here )

I'm not going to have any GUI. The plan is to be able to pull hardware information and operating system information and then compare it to a list of hardware/OS
and if returned true execute another program. Basically a way to check if the computer is capable of running a certain game with it's current hardware/os.

Originally Posted by pixalen

Will probably go check out that book, since I'm in the process of learning C and have no literature to fall back on. (hence posting here )

It's been a long time since I've read that book but I'd imagine it assumes at least intermediate knowledge of C.

If you don't have a decent grasp of at least pointers you should probably hold off on that book until you do.