GeForce 8500GT 3D Support Trying to find a 3D solution to get stereovision working.

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Hello everyone

I have been a big fan of 3D gaming and think it is pretty awesome. I had started 3D gaming since GeForce 4 with eDimensional page-flipping glasses and was just unbelievable. Well, that video card has since died and then school came around so I haven't been able to try the glasses out until now. I have a GeForce 8500GT using PCIe and have been having troubles to get these glasses to work again. The problem is that the new NVIDIA 3d drivers support 8(6)(7)00GT and up, not 8500 and the older 3d drivers support up to 7 series I believe. I have gone to the eDimensional site for their updated drivers, but the two sets of drivers they have do not work for me. I don't care if it has to be using XP or Vista as I have both operating systems and just want this to work. I do not have the money to just upgrade the card right now. If there are beta drivers or custom drivers that would get this working, I am willing to try those also. How I miss 3D gaming.
Hello everyone



I have been a big fan of 3D gaming and think it is pretty awesome. I had started 3D gaming since GeForce 4 with eDimensional page-flipping glasses and was just unbelievable. Well, that video card has since died and then school came around so I haven't been able to try the glasses out until now. I have a GeForce 8500GT using PCIe and have been having troubles to get these glasses to work again. The problem is that the new NVIDIA 3d drivers support 8(6)(7)00GT and up, not 8500 and the older 3d drivers support up to 7 series I believe. I have gone to the eDimensional site for their updated drivers, but the two sets of drivers they have do not work for me. I don't care if it has to be using XP or Vista as I have both operating systems and just want this to work. I do not have the money to just upgrade the card right now. If there are beta drivers or custom drivers that would get this working, I am willing to try those also. How I miss 3D gaming.

#1
Posted 02/07/2009 04:34 PM   
[quote name='Peto Player' post='502496' date='Feb 7 2009, 04:34 PM']Hello everyone

I have been a big fan of 3D gaming and think it is pretty awesome. I had started 3D gaming since GeForce 4 with eDimensional page-flipping glasses and was just unbelievable. Well, that video card has since died and then school came around so I haven't been able to try the glasses out until now. I have a GeForce 8500GT using PCIe and have been having troubles to get these glasses to work again. The problem is that the new NVIDIA 3d drivers support 8(6)(7)00GT and up, not 8500 and the older 3d drivers support up to 7 series I believe. I have gone to the eDimensional site for their updated drivers, but the two sets of drivers they have do not work for me. I don't care if it has to be using XP or Vista as I have both operating systems and just want this to work. I do not have the money to just upgrade the card right now. If there are beta drivers or custom drivers that would get this working, I am willing to try those also. How I miss 3D gaming.[/quote]

I've been trying to find a solution to this for 2 days now. If you're OK with using XP then you'll prob have some luck with the 181.2x drivers (I believe the card and stereo drivers have to be the same version). Like you I've been using various 3D headsets with nVidia hardware for a long time but it may be time for a change.

I've tried all sorts to get mine working with vista and have had no luck as yet. The furthest I have got is enabling anaglyphic rendering (woot :mellow: ) to work via a simple registry hack. I've also managed to get the card (8600GT) to render as it should for shutter glasses or 'S3D' using the iZ3D drivers but the shutter glasses wont start.

Ah well 50% of the way...

Please NVidia, enable support for shutterglasses other than your own! /thumbup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thumbup:' />
[quote name='Peto Player' post='502496' date='Feb 7 2009, 04:34 PM']Hello everyone



I have been a big fan of 3D gaming and think it is pretty awesome. I had started 3D gaming since GeForce 4 with eDimensional page-flipping glasses and was just unbelievable. Well, that video card has since died and then school came around so I haven't been able to try the glasses out until now. I have a GeForce 8500GT using PCIe and have been having troubles to get these glasses to work again. The problem is that the new NVIDIA 3d drivers support 8(6)(7)00GT and up, not 8500 and the older 3d drivers support up to 7 series I believe. I have gone to the eDimensional site for their updated drivers, but the two sets of drivers they have do not work for me. I don't care if it has to be using XP or Vista as I have both operating systems and just want this to work. I do not have the money to just upgrade the card right now. If there are beta drivers or custom drivers that would get this working, I am willing to try those also. How I miss 3D gaming.



I've been trying to find a solution to this for 2 days now. If you're OK with using XP then you'll prob have some luck with the 181.2x drivers (I believe the card and stereo drivers have to be the same version). Like you I've been using various 3D headsets with nVidia hardware for a long time but it may be time for a change.



I've tried all sorts to get mine working with vista and have had no luck as yet. The furthest I have got is enabling anaglyphic rendering (woot :mellow: ) to work via a simple registry hack. I've also managed to get the card (8600GT) to render as it should for shutter glasses or 'S3D' using the iZ3D drivers but the shutter glasses wont start.



Ah well 50% of the way...



Please NVidia, enable support for shutterglasses other than your own! /thumbup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thumbup:' />

#2
Posted 02/07/2009 05:18 PM   
[quote name='DukeOfDesmo' post='502505' date='Feb 7 2009, 11:18 AM']I've been trying to find a solution to this for 2 days now. If you're OK with using XP then you'll prob have some luck with the 181.2x drivers (I believe the card and stereo drivers have to be the same version). Like you I've been using various 3D headsets with nVidia hardware for a long time but it may be time for a change.

I've tried all sorts to get mine working with vista and have had no luck as yet. The furthest I have got is enabling anaglyphic rendering (woot :mellow: ) to work via a simple registry hack. I've also managed to get the card (8600GT) to render as it should for shutter glasses or 'S3D' using the iZ3D drivers but the shutter glasses wont start.

Ah well 50% of the way...

Please NVidia, enable support for shutterglasses other than your own! /thumbup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thumbup:' />[/quote]


To hopefully help you out with the last half of the problem of the glasses actually not activating, eDimensional has a program that will activate the glasses themselves. It supports interlaced, over under, page flipping, however, I do not know if it will work with other glasses, if you are interested, it can be downloaded at [url="http://www.edimensionalfiles.com/solo11/downloads/E-D.exe"]http://www.edimensionalfiles.com/solo11/downloads/E-D.exe[/url]. I have looked at the 181.xx drivers already and they say they are only for Vista, and when I try in Vista, it doesn't see the IR device that NVIDIA uses so it only allows anaglyph, but I can't click on the next box, and I would prefer page-flipping since the quality is much better.
[quote name='DukeOfDesmo' post='502505' date='Feb 7 2009, 11:18 AM']I've been trying to find a solution to this for 2 days now. If you're OK with using XP then you'll prob have some luck with the 181.2x drivers (I believe the card and stereo drivers have to be the same version). Like you I've been using various 3D headsets with nVidia hardware for a long time but it may be time for a change.



I've tried all sorts to get mine working with vista and have had no luck as yet. The furthest I have got is enabling anaglyphic rendering (woot :mellow: ) to work via a simple registry hack. I've also managed to get the card (8600GT) to render as it should for shutter glasses or 'S3D' using the iZ3D drivers but the shutter glasses wont start.



Ah well 50% of the way...



Please NVidia, enable support for shutterglasses other than your own! /thumbup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':thumbup:' />





To hopefully help you out with the last half of the problem of the glasses actually not activating, eDimensional has a program that will activate the glasses themselves. It supports interlaced, over under, page flipping, however, I do not know if it will work with other glasses, if you are interested, it can be downloaded at http://www.edimensionalfiles.com/solo11/downloads/E-D.exe. I have looked at the 181.xx drivers already and they say they are only for Vista, and when I try in Vista, it doesn't see the IR device that NVIDIA uses so it only allows anaglyph, but I can't click on the next box, and I would prefer page-flipping since the quality is much better.

#3
Posted 02/07/2009 06:57 PM   
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