GPU information

[dnook]

How can I get information about the video card, for example: CPU frequency, temperature, fan speed, and other?

[BogdanOntanu]

WMI interfaces combined with IDirect3D interfaces maybe?

[dedndave]

at the lowest level, you may need a kernel mode driver

[BogdanOntanu]

at the lowest level, you may need a kernel mode driver

Not needed to go that far... knowledge of some proprietary IOCTL for an existing driver should suffice ;)

[Farabi]

Yeah, I used to taugh the newbie the hardest way, that is why many of them run from Asm, I guess we should leave them to learning API, not learning the whole of computer system.

[donkey]

Most manufacturers of graphics cards and GPU's have their own WMI providers or API's. For example there is PerfHUD from NVIDIA and PerfStudio for AMD/ATI.