My observation on the blinking
Yesterday I decided to watch those cool Nasa 3D pictures on the 3D picture viewer. And I noted a lot of blinking and flickering. The glasses even switched once off, so i had to toggle the IR emitter to 2D and back to 3D to reactivate it.

I was shocked, that I can play games without a problem, but a a simple thing as a picture viewer causes the system to struggle.

I noted that while looking the pictures my HD was ratteling all the time, which doesn't happen while playing games, so the blinking seems to be caused by high IO load on the system. Can anyone confirm this?

On a side note I have vista64 with 4 Gig of RAM and a rather fresh system, so swapping should be minimal. Has anyone a tip what I can do reduce the constant disk access? I heard that there is an filesystem indexing which is constantly running, can I turn this off?
Yesterday I decided to watch those cool Nasa 3D pictures on the 3D picture viewer. And I noted a lot of blinking and flickering. The glasses even switched once off, so i had to toggle the IR emitter to 2D and back to 3D to reactivate it.



I was shocked, that I can play games without a problem, but a a simple thing as a picture viewer causes the system to struggle.



I noted that while looking the pictures my HD was ratteling all the time, which doesn't happen while playing games, so the blinking seems to be caused by high IO load on the system. Can anyone confirm this?



On a side note I have vista64 with 4 Gig of RAM and a rather fresh system, so swapping should be minimal. Has anyone a tip what I can do reduce the constant disk access? I heard that there is an filesystem indexing which is constantly running, can I turn this off?

#1
Posted 05/18/2009 07:21 AM   
[quote name='Rocker_lx' post='542411' date='May 18 2009, 07:21 AM']Yesterday I decided to watch those cool Nasa 3D pictures on the 3D picture viewer. And I noted a lot of blinking and flickering. The glasses even switched once off, so i had to toggle the IR emitter to 2D and back to 3D to reactivate it.

I was shocked, that I can play games without a problem, but a a simple thing as a picture viewer causes the system to struggle.

I noted that while looking the pictures my HD was ratteling all the time, which doesn't happen while playing games, so the blinking seems to be caused by high IO load on the system. Can anyone confirm this?

On a side note I have vista64 with 4 Gig of RAM and a rather fresh system, so swapping should be minimal. Has anyone a tip what I can do reduce the constant disk access? I heard that there is an filesystem indexing which is constantly running, can I turn this off?[/quote]

Gotta love Nvidia's wicked programmers. Seriously, like Wow. Charge us up the *ss for this thing and then don't even support it.

What the *uck are you smoking Nvidia ?

HELLO??

YOUR CUSTOMERS FRICKEN NEED YOU ??!!!!!!!

DO YOU CARE OR SHOULD I RETURN THIS JAZZ AND BUY ANOTHER IZ3d and TELL EVERYONE I KNOW TO GO THAT ROUTE.

HELLOOOOOOOOOOO

YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MARKET SHARE IF YOU DON'T WAKE UP!!

I'm seriously pissed off. yes.
[quote name='Rocker_lx' post='542411' date='May 18 2009, 07:21 AM']Yesterday I decided to watch those cool Nasa 3D pictures on the 3D picture viewer. And I noted a lot of blinking and flickering. The glasses even switched once off, so i had to toggle the IR emitter to 2D and back to 3D to reactivate it.



I was shocked, that I can play games without a problem, but a a simple thing as a picture viewer causes the system to struggle.



I noted that while looking the pictures my HD was ratteling all the time, which doesn't happen while playing games, so the blinking seems to be caused by high IO load on the system. Can anyone confirm this?



On a side note I have vista64 with 4 Gig of RAM and a rather fresh system, so swapping should be minimal. Has anyone a tip what I can do reduce the constant disk access? I heard that there is an filesystem indexing which is constantly running, can I turn this off?



Gotta love Nvidia's wicked programmers. Seriously, like Wow. Charge us up the *ss for this thing and then don't even support it.



What the *uck are you smoking Nvidia ?



HELLO??



YOUR CUSTOMERS FRICKEN NEED YOU ??!!!!!!!



DO YOU CARE OR SHOULD I RETURN THIS JAZZ AND BUY ANOTHER IZ3d and TELL EVERYONE I KNOW TO GO THAT ROUTE.



HELLOOOOOOOOOOO



YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MARKET SHARE IF YOU DON'T WAKE UP!!



I'm seriously pissed off. yes.

#2
Posted 05/18/2009 07:41 AM   
[quote name='dreamingawake' post='542414' date='May 18 2009, 08:41 AM']Gotta love Nvidia's wicked programmers. Seriously, like Wow. Charge us up the *ss for this thing and then don't even support it.

What the *uck are you smoking Nvidia ?

HELLO??

YOUR CUSTOMERS FRICKEN NEED YOU ??!!!!!!!

DO YOU CARE OR SHOULD I RETURN THIS JAZZ AND BUY ANOTHER IZ3d and TELL EVERYONE I KNOW TO GO THAT ROUTE.

HELLOOOOOOOOOOO

YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MARKET SHARE IF YOU DON'T WAKE UP!!

I'm seriously pissed off. yes.[/quote]

I think people are more wondering what you are smoking.

He is having issues with io loads, that in no way reflects nvidia's programming or support.
I for one have no problems with the picture viewer, or with their video player. They have released drivers for an os that isn't even on sale yet because their customers wanted it.
The games support list is growing constantly.
They have released 8 updates since january. That's more than one a month.

Get a grip and maybe go smoke something to relax.
[quote name='dreamingawake' post='542414' date='May 18 2009, 08:41 AM']Gotta love Nvidia's wicked programmers. Seriously, like Wow. Charge us up the *ss for this thing and then don't even support it.



What the *uck are you smoking Nvidia ?



HELLO??



YOUR CUSTOMERS FRICKEN NEED YOU ??!!!!!!!



DO YOU CARE OR SHOULD I RETURN THIS JAZZ AND BUY ANOTHER IZ3d and TELL EVERYONE I KNOW TO GO THAT ROUTE.



HELLOOOOOOOOOOO



YOU WILL LOSE YOUR MARKET SHARE IF YOU DON'T WAKE UP!!



I'm seriously pissed off. yes.



I think people are more wondering what you are smoking.



He is having issues with io loads, that in no way reflects nvidia's programming or support.

I for one have no problems with the picture viewer, or with their video player. They have released drivers for an os that isn't even on sale yet because their customers wanted it.

The games support list is growing constantly.

They have released 8 updates since january. That's more than one a month.



Get a grip and maybe go smoke something to relax.

#3
Posted 05/18/2009 07:57 AM   
in my experience it may be the picture size

if i capture stereo shots in the samsungs native resolution of 1680x1050, wich results in a shot the size of 3360x1050 and put them into the picture viewer i get white flashes sometimes and the glasses go out of synch.
if i use the same shot and resize it by half to 1680x525 it works fine in the stereo picture viewer

im using vista 64 with 4gig as well, my card is a 8800gt
in my experience it may be the picture size



if i capture stereo shots in the samsungs native resolution of 1680x1050, wich results in a shot the size of 3360x1050 and put them into the picture viewer i get white flashes sometimes and the glasses go out of synch.

if i use the same shot and resize it by half to 1680x525 it works fine in the stereo picture viewer



im using vista 64 with 4gig as well, my card is a 8800gt

#4
Posted 05/18/2009 08:18 AM   
I think it has to do with momentary glitches in the usb bus that cause the glasses' shutters to get out of sync. My understanding is that the shutters are controlled by the infrared transmitter, which is connected, powered, & controlled by the usb bus of the pc. Any momentary "hitch" in that flow of information seems to cause the commands to get out of sync -- not hard to understand when you think about just how many infrared commands-per-second the transmitter is putting out. Miss a single beat, and the whole flow is thrown off.

Mind you, that's just a theory. A lot of people seem to think it's interference between the pci-express X-Fi Titanium and the 3dV system, but I don't share this opinion as neither the glasses nor the transmitter have anything to do with the pci-express bus, and the "blinking" is not from the monitor/graphics. It's decidedly from the glasses themselves. In any case, I'm trying to rule out every other possibility before I resort to removing my soundcard to see if that's where the problem is coming from because if it is, it's less likely 3dV will be staying on my system than my soundcard.
I think it has to do with momentary glitches in the usb bus that cause the glasses' shutters to get out of sync. My understanding is that the shutters are controlled by the infrared transmitter, which is connected, powered, & controlled by the usb bus of the pc. Any momentary "hitch" in that flow of information seems to cause the commands to get out of sync -- not hard to understand when you think about just how many infrared commands-per-second the transmitter is putting out. Miss a single beat, and the whole flow is thrown off.



Mind you, that's just a theory. A lot of people seem to think it's interference between the pci-express X-Fi Titanium and the 3dV system, but I don't share this opinion as neither the glasses nor the transmitter have anything to do with the pci-express bus, and the "blinking" is not from the monitor/graphics. It's decidedly from the glasses themselves. In any case, I'm trying to rule out every other possibility before I resort to removing my soundcard to see if that's where the problem is coming from because if it is, it's less likely 3dV will be staying on my system than my soundcard.

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#5
Posted 05/18/2009 01:32 PM   
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