Getting the name of the installed video card

I'm trying to discover if exists any way in java to get the name (ATI, nVidia, Creative) and other properties (version,memory size,...) of the installed video card where the jvm is running.
Thanks in advance,
Joan

Definitely not directly with Java APIs....
2 approaches...
1. get another external program to do the work for you, and export it to a text file.
then you parse then text file.
On WinXP, there's a program called msinfo32.exe in
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo
type msinfo32 /? for a list of command line options.
Looks like you can route it to a text file.
2. Write a low level JNI library in native Windows C++, which somehow finds that hardware specific information from the Windows API.
regards,
Owen

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