How can I determine the type of CPU on the target computer?
Hello,
Up until now our techs just copied applications and files to the target drive and registered codecs and edited config-files manually. Now we want to automize this process by using InstallShield 2011. We have different codecs for single-core and dual-core CPUs. Is there a way to find out which CPU the target computer has and install the approriate codec?
I don't believe the standard Hardware Properties cover this, so if you know how to detect this, it would be good to write a custom action that will detect it and set a property. Then your components can reference this property in their conditions.
That said, this approach may cause your application or library to break (or under-perform) if the CPU is changed, or the hard drive migrates across machines. Assuming that's not a feature, consider installing both codecs and performing the check at run-time instead of install-time.
The information is found in the registry; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor with a sub key for each core / cpu eg my dual core system has subkeys 0 and 1
You could do a check on through System Search with criteria for if single core... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0 ....will exist. If dual core .... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0 and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\1 ... will exist.
