NEW Drivers Is this the end of stereo
Hi all

I have just installed the latest nvidia 162.18_forceware drivers and there is no classic control panel option just the new nvidia control panel .
Does this mean that nvidia will no longer support stereo?.

Rhys
Hi all



I have just installed the latest nvidia 162.18_forceware drivers and there is no classic control panel option just the new nvidia control panel .

Does this mean that nvidia will no longer support stereo?.



Rhys

#1
Posted 08/04/2007 09:14 AM   
No. :P

You can access the old control panel and the NEW stereo panel by adding this registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies] "ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000001

The 162.15 Stereo beta is at mtbs3D.com.

Regards,
Chopper
No. :P



You can access the old control panel and the NEW stereo panel by adding this registry key:



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies] "ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000001



The 162.15 Stereo beta is at mtbs3D.com.



Regards,

Chopper

#2
Posted 08/04/2007 03:14 PM   
[quote name='Chopper' date='Aug 4 2007, 05:14 PM']No.  :P

You can access the old control panel and the NEW stereo panel by adding this registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies] "ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000001

The 162.15 Stereo beta is at mtbs3D.com.

Regards,
Chopper
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That didn't work.

I also wondered if nVidia don't support stereo 3D anymore. I'm constantly going back to forceware 78.01 with stereodrivers. Unfortunately, a little drop (5%ish) in framerate on 3Dmark 05, but rather that than no stereo.

Where can I access the 3D stereo panel? I mean the one where you set which kind of stereo glasses to use, which hotkey to activate it during games, etc. The stereo properties of this new controlpanel, is just about opengl/direct3D quality settings. Nothing about stereo viewing at all.
[quote name='Chopper' date='Aug 4 2007, 05:14 PM']No.  :P



You can access the old control panel and the NEW stereo panel by adding this registry key:



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies] "ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000001



The 162.15 Stereo beta is at mtbs3D.com.



Regards,

Chopper

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That didn't work.



I also wondered if nVidia don't support stereo 3D anymore. I'm constantly going back to forceware 78.01 with stereodrivers. Unfortunately, a little drop (5%ish) in framerate on 3Dmark 05, but rather that than no stereo.



Where can I access the 3D stereo panel? I mean the one where you set which kind of stereo glasses to use, which hotkey to activate it during games, etc. The stereo properties of this new controlpanel, is just about opengl/direct3D quality settings. Nothing about stereo viewing at all.

OS: Windows Vista Ultimate, 64-bit, SP2
MB: GA-990FXA-UD3
CPU: AMD FX8350, 4 GHz (not overclocked)
RAM: 4 GB
GPU: GTX 470 (not overclocked)

#3
Posted 08/07/2007 06:48 AM   
[quote name='10_goto_10' date='Aug 7 2007, 02:48 AM']That didn't work.

I also wondered if nVidia don't support stereo 3D anymore. I'm constantly going back to forceware 78.01 with stereodrivers. Unfortunately, a little drop (5%ish) in framerate on 3Dmark 05, but rather that than no stereo.

Where can I access the 3D stereo panel? I mean the one where you set which kind of stereo glasses to use, which hotkey to activate it during games, etc. The stereo properties of this new controlpanel, is just about opengl/direct3D quality settings. Nothing about stereo viewing at all.
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Try this registry tweek. It includes the one mentioned above but I also had to adjust two other lines in order to see the old control panel with the 162 drivers. In fact I now have both the new and old enabled

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies]
"ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000001
"TaskbarUIPolicy"=dword:00000002
"CplGroupUIPolicy"=dword:00000003
[quote name='10_goto_10' date='Aug 7 2007, 02:48 AM']That didn't work.



I also wondered if nVidia don't support stereo 3D anymore. I'm constantly going back to forceware 78.01 with stereodrivers. Unfortunately, a little drop (5%ish) in framerate on 3Dmark 05, but rather that than no stereo.



Where can I access the 3D stereo panel? I mean the one where you set which kind of stereo glasses to use, which hotkey to activate it during games, etc. The stereo properties of this new controlpanel, is just about opengl/direct3D quality settings. Nothing about stereo viewing at all.

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Try this registry tweek. It includes the one mentioned above but I also had to adjust two other lines in order to see the old control panel with the 162 drivers. In fact I now have both the new and old enabled



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies]

"ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000001

"TaskbarUIPolicy"=dword:00000002

"CplGroupUIPolicy"=dword:00000003

#4
Posted 08/07/2007 11:04 AM   
[quote name='Znith' date='Aug 7 2007, 01:04 PM']Try this registry tweek.  It includes the one mentioned above but I also had to adjust two other lines in order to see the old control panel with the 162 drivers.  In fact I now have both the new and old enabled

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies]
"ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000001
"TaskbarUIPolicy"=dword:00000002
"CplGroupUIPolicy"=dword:00000003
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THAT did work!! /thumbup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thumbup:' />

How do you figure out these things?
Anyway, thanks! You're a lifesaver!

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Edit: fixed the smiley
[quote name='Znith' date='Aug 7 2007, 01:04 PM']Try this registry tweek.  It includes the one mentioned above but I also had to adjust two other lines in order to see the old control panel with the 162 drivers.  In fact I now have both the new and old enabled



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies]

"ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000001

"TaskbarUIPolicy"=dword:00000002

"CplGroupUIPolicy"=dword:00000003

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THAT did work!! /thumbup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thumbup:' />



How do you figure out these things?

Anyway, thanks! You're a lifesaver!



Image



Edit: fixed the smiley

OS: Windows Vista Ultimate, 64-bit, SP2
MB: GA-990FXA-UD3
CPU: AMD FX8350, 4 GHz (not overclocked)
RAM: 4 GB
GPU: GTX 470 (not overclocked)

#5
Posted 08/08/2007 05:27 AM   
Thanks for the reply guys

Why did nvidia leave out the stereo setup control panel ? and will they make it available with out having to do the registry tweek in the next round of driver updates

Any word on when the next offical stereo drivers will be released

Cheers

Rhys
Thanks for the reply guys



Why did nvidia leave out the stereo setup control panel ? and will they make it available with out having to do the registry tweek in the next round of driver updates



Any word on when the next offical stereo drivers will be released



Cheers



Rhys

#6
Posted 08/19/2007 11:22 PM   
Hiya folks! Got a silly question that I suspect Chopper will be able to chew right up for me! :D Just what are the differences between all the different drivers on the MTBS site? My card is using an Nvidia 6800 chipset and I'm running the 91.31 drivers from Nvidia's site so out of all the drivers MTBS has available, what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

I'm currently running several different 3D set-ups but my most favorite is with an Optoma EP739 projector. The 3D is pretty much perfect (since I picked up a parallax inverter) and I don't want to screw things up. That having been said, I'm always interested in improving and tweaking my set-up (I'm running XP Pro with an Athlon 64bit 3200+ and 2 gigs of RAM. Not the ballsiest set-up but it works for most games I play).

Thanks!
Hiya folks! Got a silly question that I suspect Chopper will be able to chew right up for me! :D Just what are the differences between all the different drivers on the MTBS site? My card is using an Nvidia 6800 chipset and I'm running the 91.31 drivers from Nvidia's site so out of all the drivers MTBS has available, what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?



I'm currently running several different 3D set-ups but my most favorite is with an Optoma EP739 projector. The 3D is pretty much perfect (since I picked up a parallax inverter) and I don't want to screw things up. That having been said, I'm always interested in improving and tweaking my set-up (I'm running XP Pro with an Athlon 64bit 3200+ and 2 gigs of RAM. Not the ballsiest set-up but it works for most games I play).



Thanks!

#7
Posted 08/23/2007 09:08 AM   
[quote name='Desdinova' date='Aug 23 2007, 01:08 AM']what are the differences between all the different drivers on the MTBS site? [/quote]


It is ease - Every new stereo driver from MTBS site is a new motive to talk about MTBS site /thumbup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thumbup:' />
[quote name='Desdinova' date='Aug 23 2007, 01:08 AM']what are the differences between all the different drivers on the MTBS site?





It is ease - Every new stereo driver from MTBS site is a new motive to talk about MTBS site /thumbup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thumbup:' />

#8
Posted 08/23/2007 03:33 PM   
The differences between the drivers?

Well, if you look at all drivers above Forceware 94.24 (NOT 94.24), you will see that the new stereo panel is a bit different, and there is a wide range of modern game profiles that were not there before.

As to the official differences, I have never received a "release notes" outline, just the file. As the Forcewares go up in version number, the stereo drivers don't necessarily match up. So, the updated drivers let you use the most recent Forceware drivers for the best speed improvements and bug fixes (we hope!).

Yes, it does help the industry when attention is drawn to MTBS, so new drivers are always a welcome sight.

Regards,
Chopper
The differences between the drivers?



Well, if you look at all drivers above Forceware 94.24 (NOT 94.24), you will see that the new stereo panel is a bit different, and there is a wide range of modern game profiles that were not there before.



As to the official differences, I have never received a "release notes" outline, just the file. As the Forcewares go up in version number, the stereo drivers don't necessarily match up. So, the updated drivers let you use the most recent Forceware drivers for the best speed improvements and bug fixes (we hope!).



Yes, it does help the industry when attention is drawn to MTBS, so new drivers are always a welcome sight.



Regards,

Chopper

#9
Posted 08/23/2007 04:21 PM   
Bumping this thread since 1: I didn't know where to post this, and 2: The problem persists; No 3D stereo support on new drivers /geek.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':geek:' />

Admittedly, I don't use 3D stero in games a hole lot, but it's fun occationally. Now it's a long time since last time, and I wanted to test it a bit again. No luck.

I had the unofficial "Omega" drivers from this summer (because of a game that crashed all the time (Mass Effect - worked with Omega in my experience)), so I guessed I had to reinstall official drivers. But I did try the 3D stereo drivers with the Omega driver too, but that didn't work. Either.

I -could- try installing the ooold 91.31 drivers wich did work for sure (well, on my old card at least), but for now I'm just tired of reinstalling 3 different drivers, with 3 stereo drivers (times 2 different versions) in addition, each requiring a reboot of course, and then one OS to get it to work as before.. (IE no 3D stereo)

178.24_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe - nope
169.21_forceware_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe - nope
163.71_forceware_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe . - nope - This one I'm sure worked before! I guess some remnants, maybe from the physx drivers which I did not have before, somehow stops it.

Tried them with the "91.31_forceware_3dstereo.exe" (5599kB) , from nVidia's download section, which seems to be the only one. I also seem to have gotten hold of another 3D driver, don't remember from where, at 6113 kB. Original filename is uncertain, I guess I renamed it to match version 162.15, which again worked with 163.71 (dont ask).

Now I've restored an older image without the physx-stuff which came with 178.24, so sometimes later I guess I'll try again, to see if that helps. Or if not, try version 91.31...which is a version I'm damned sure worked, but on an older card (nVidia 6800 I think it was) My current is an nVidia GeForce 8600GT. For 3D I just use anaglyph (or anachrome) glasses. Hence I don't use it too much at a time.

The "mediacal test image" came up in most instances above, but as a veritcal split-screen. The test application ran without any 3D stereo at all, when it ran. Sometimes it just stopped everything, and one time it seemed windows had to revert to some very basic VGA drivers and asked me to reboot.

Well I hope nVidia manages to update their 3D stereo drivers. And maybe even get it into that control panel thing. But I like the older one better, as described in the above posts with the registry fix.

Also, is there any hope for 3D stereo drivers in Linux?
Bumping this thread since 1: I didn't know where to post this, and 2: The problem persists; No 3D stereo support on new drivers /geek.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':geek:' />



Admittedly, I don't use 3D stero in games a hole lot, but it's fun occationally. Now it's a long time since last time, and I wanted to test it a bit again. No luck.



I had the unofficial "Omega" drivers from this summer (because of a game that crashed all the time (Mass Effect - worked with Omega in my experience)), so I guessed I had to reinstall official drivers. But I did try the 3D stereo drivers with the Omega driver too, but that didn't work. Either.



I -could- try installing the ooold 91.31 drivers wich did work for sure (well, on my old card at least), but for now I'm just tired of reinstalling 3 different drivers, with 3 stereo drivers (times 2 different versions) in addition, each requiring a reboot of course, and then one OS to get it to work as before.. (IE no 3D stereo)



178.24_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe - nope

169.21_forceware_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe - nope

163.71_forceware_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe . - nope - This one I'm sure worked before! I guess some remnants, maybe from the physx drivers which I did not have before, somehow stops it.



Tried them with the "91.31_forceware_3dstereo.exe" (5599kB) , from nVidia's download section, which seems to be the only one. I also seem to have gotten hold of another 3D driver, don't remember from where, at 6113 kB. Original filename is uncertain, I guess I renamed it to match version 162.15, which again worked with 163.71 (dont ask).



Now I've restored an older image without the physx-stuff which came with 178.24, so sometimes later I guess I'll try again, to see if that helps. Or if not, try version 91.31...which is a version I'm damned sure worked, but on an older card (nVidia 6800 I think it was) My current is an nVidia GeForce 8600GT. For 3D I just use anaglyph (or anachrome) glasses. Hence I don't use it too much at a time.



The "mediacal test image" came up in most instances above, but as a veritcal split-screen. The test application ran without any 3D stereo at all, when it ran. Sometimes it just stopped everything, and one time it seemed windows had to revert to some very basic VGA drivers and asked me to reboot.



Well I hope nVidia manages to update their 3D stereo drivers. And maybe even get it into that control panel thing. But I like the older one better, as described in the above posts with the registry fix.



Also, is there any hope for 3D stereo drivers in Linux?

OS: Windows Vista Ultimate, 64-bit, SP2
MB: GA-990FXA-UD3
CPU: AMD FX8350, 4 GHz (not overclocked)
RAM: 4 GB
GPU: GTX 470 (not overclocked)

#10
Posted 11/25/2008 09:22 AM   
[quote name='hsvcoupfan' post='232663' date='Aug 4 2007, 02:14 AM']Hi all

I have just installed the latest nvidia 162.18_forceware drivers and there is no classic control panel option just the new nvidia control panel .
Does this mean that nvidia will no longer support stereo?.

Rhys[/quote]
all i can say is follow the sig, for great stereo 3d drivers...
[quote name='hsvcoupfan' post='232663' date='Aug 4 2007, 02:14 AM']Hi all



I have just installed the latest nvidia 162.18_forceware drivers and there is no classic control panel option just the new nvidia control panel .

Does this mean that nvidia will no longer support stereo?.



Rhys

all i can say is follow the sig, for great stereo 3d drivers...

#11
Posted 11/26/2008 05:54 PM   
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