How can you tell what type of video card you have?

[konichiwa]

Friend of mine has a Dell computer ... with an ATI Radeon but he has no idea which model (comp is about 9 months old I'd say...has a P4 in it) and certain games have not worked for him (Comanche 4 for instance, and MOH:AA demo). He doesn't have the box because it was OEM and it doesn't say in the invoice, nor does it say in System Properties or anything like that. Is there a program that can find out exactly what model video card he has?

Or, furthermore, if anyone could troubleshoot the individual problem (MOH:AA gave an error about OpenGL, Comanche 4 had this weird thing where the menus and everything on screen would flicker uncontrollably) that'd be good too.

Feel kind of dumb asking such a stupid question but ... oh well

Thanks

 

[DcHoliday9]

Take the Card out of the computer and look at it. It should say some were on it what it is.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

yeah or take the FCC id and look it up. you could also call up dell. i had to do this once to figure out what ram was in a computer (just said 64 mb). this was back when their support was better

he had to send me through a couple of departments, but eventually got to the tech guys and they were able to tell me everything i needed to know.