FSX 3D stereo help, 8800GTX and shutterglasses
Hello everyone,

I've made it to get stereo working, with a lot of trouble.... under winxp 32 and 162.50 stereo driver, with FW 169.44 for my nvidia 8800GTX which i bought just for stereo playing.... unbelievable that shutterglasses aren't supported by new vista drivers.....
well after a little tweaking with nhancer i've made Flight simulator X to work in stereo, but i've got a major issue... taxi lights, runway lights.. VASI lights are all rendered in 2D so they won't duplicate when i activate stereo.... What's the matter with this??? how can i get them to display correctly????

One weird thing that happened is that i've made it to show them correctly but i don't remember which settings i've used!! i just remember that my fps dropped down from 21fps (21 target) to 7-8fps BUT with stereo OK, and also lights displayed correctly, I still couldn't get that effect back...

please help!!
Hello everyone,



I've made it to get stereo working, with a lot of trouble.... under winxp 32 and 162.50 stereo driver, with FW 169.44 for my nvidia 8800GTX which i bought just for stereo playing.... unbelievable that shutterglasses aren't supported by new vista drivers.....

well after a little tweaking with nhancer i've made Flight simulator X to work in stereo, but i've got a major issue... taxi lights, runway lights.. VASI lights are all rendered in 2D so they won't duplicate when i activate stereo.... What's the matter with this??? how can i get them to display correctly????



One weird thing that happened is that i've made it to show them correctly but i don't remember which settings i've used!! i just remember that my fps dropped down from 21fps (21 target) to 7-8fps BUT with stereo OK, and also lights displayed correctly, I still couldn't get that effect back...



please help!!

#1
Posted 04/29/2008 06:36 PM   
Hi,
have readed this:
"Doubled Lights and Gun Sights
Flying an approach in FS2004 shows up one bug in many 3D graphics drivers, especially in a night setting. The airport runway lights are not rendered in 3D, making them appear double and way out of position. Very annoying in a virtual reality session. For NVidia graphics cards there is a fix: turn off the "Transform and Lighting" function in the FS2004 display settings. A similar problem occurs in CFS3 with target brackets. In this case the "Transform and Lighting" function can be turned off in the NVidia Stereo Driver settings before CFS3 is started. I have not found a fix for ATI cards.
There is a draw back to this solution. Turning off the transform and lighting function disables much of the graphics acceleration performed by the graphics card. The burden switches to the motherboard. This means that you must have a very robust PC to keep up the frame rate and resolution otherwise maintained by the graphics card. Not all ATI or NVidia cards may suffer from this problem".
Here:
[url="http://www.3dflightsim.com/tips.htm"]http://www.3dflightsim.com/tips.htm[/url]

For use in 3D stereo is beautiful Condor soaring simulator:
see here (this is in2D, 3D is more better :-)

[url="http://www.youtube.com/v/4_p69UwOsNU"]http://www.youtube.com/v/4_p69UwOsNU[/url]
Hi,

have readed this:

"Doubled Lights and Gun Sights

Flying an approach in FS2004 shows up one bug in many 3D graphics drivers, especially in a night setting. The airport runway lights are not rendered in 3D, making them appear double and way out of position. Very annoying in a virtual reality session. For NVidia graphics cards there is a fix: turn off the "Transform and Lighting" function in the FS2004 display settings. A similar problem occurs in CFS3 with target brackets. In this case the "Transform and Lighting" function can be turned off in the NVidia Stereo Driver settings before CFS3 is started. I have not found a fix for ATI cards.

There is a draw back to this solution. Turning off the transform and lighting function disables much of the graphics acceleration performed by the graphics card. The burden switches to the motherboard. This means that you must have a very robust PC to keep up the frame rate and resolution otherwise maintained by the graphics card. Not all ATI or NVidia cards may suffer from this problem".

Here:

http://www.3dflightsim.com/tips.htm



For use in 3D stereo is beautiful Condor soaring simulator:

see here (this is in2D, 3D is more better :-)



http://www.youtube.com/v/4_p69UwOsNU

#2
Posted 04/29/2008 06:51 PM   
hello and thanks for answer,

here it is, i've tried disabling HW tnl but my FSX starts, loads everything and.... it does nothing! it just holds CPU 100%...., well just after re-enabling (from stereo control panel!!) TnL, I get the game running ok, and... lights split the right way.. and i get 4.5fps, but the major problem is that separation doesn't work well with convergence... resulting in a double image with absolutely NO-3D effect! (near separation is the same as far sep.); well after restarting the game one last time... everything works back ok, i get my usual 21fps (on a total of 21) and stereo separation works well... but... NO lights separation! so I'm right to the starting point.

Any other ideas on this??? please help!!!!!
hello and thanks for answer,



here it is, i've tried disabling HW tnl but my FSX starts, loads everything and.... it does nothing! it just holds CPU 100%...., well just after re-enabling (from stereo control panel!!) TnL, I get the game running ok, and... lights split the right way.. and i get 4.5fps, but the major problem is that separation doesn't work well with convergence... resulting in a double image with absolutely NO-3D effect! (near separation is the same as far sep.); well after restarting the game one last time... everything works back ok, i get my usual 21fps (on a total of 21) and stereo separation works well... but... NO lights separation! so I'm right to the starting point.



Any other ideas on this??? please help!!!!!

#3
Posted 04/29/2008 08:55 PM   
At the moment the best sytem to use shutter glasses with nVidia drivers is still :

single core CPU
7900 Geforce
Win XP.

If you insist on at least trying the shutter glasses you just bought, you can try this:
[url="http://www.ddd.com/cart/product.php?productid=35&cat=14&page=2"]http://www.ddd.com/cart/product.php?produc...5&cat=14&page=2[/url]
At the moment the best sytem to use shutter glasses with nVidia drivers is still :



single core CPU

7900 Geforce

Win XP.



If you insist on at least trying the shutter glasses you just bought, you can try this:

http://www.ddd.com/cart/product.php?produc...5&cat=14&page=2

#4
Posted 05/02/2008 07:49 PM   
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