C# detect which graphics card drives video

Question

My C# application sits on the embedded box which has Intel motherboard and graphics chipset. ATI graphics card is put on to PCI express. Generally graphics card drives the v

Answer 1

This should hopefully get you started.

Add a reference to System.Management, then you can do this:

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher 
     = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DisplayConfiguration");

    string graphicsCard = string.Empty;
    foreach (ManagementObject mo in searcher.Get())
    {
        foreach (PropertyData property in mo.Properties)
        {
           if (property.Name == "Description")
           {
               graphicsCard = property.Value.ToString();
           }
        }
    }

In my case, graphicsCard is equal to

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1)