Determining the Graphics Capabilites of End User Machines

MM .NET contains an mmRenderCapability class that contains a read-only Tier property that tells you the graphics capabilites of an end-user's machine. This property returns an enumerated value that can be one of the following:

Value	Description
Tier0	The video card does not provide hardware accelearation (DirectX version < 7.0)
Tier1	The video card provides partial hardware acceleration (DirectX version > 7 and < 9)
Tier2	All features that can be hardware accelerated are (DirectX version >= 9.0)

You can use this information to determine if you should programmatically disable some advanced graphic features.