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From: Carlos Simmerling (carlos.simmerling_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2018 - 10:20:02 CDT

thanks John,
Reading posts from a search it looks like there might be some general
issues with OpenGL stereo support in Windows 10, so I hesitate to buy a
newer card and have the same problem. I'll try what you suggest and roll
back my driver, but I can't go back from WIndows 10 unfortunately.

Does anyone have Nvidia 3D Vision working under windows 10?

thanks
Carlos

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:10 AM John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
> This strikes me as a driver bug.
> The OpenGL quad-buffered stereo code in VMD hasn't changed in quite a
> while, and it
> had been working fine on Linux and Windows in all of the previous testing
> I've done.
>
> The NVIDIA 3D vision test programs are written using Direct X rather than
> OpenGL,
> so the fact that they work okay means that at least the hardware is
> working,
> but I think that the OpenGL part of the driver stack must not be working
> correctly.
>
> The Quadro FX 5800 is now a very old GPU (GT200 architecture) that is no
> longer
> supported by the current NVIDIA drivers, which I'm guessing you're already
> keenly aware
> of. This makes our options somewhat limited and cumbersome. My
> suggestion would be
> to cycle through the last few driver versions that support
> GT200-architecture GPUs
> in general, or the FX 5800 explicitly, and see if you can find one that
> works correctly.
> This isn't a fun process, but if you want to keep using that card, that is
> likely
> the best option.
>
> Perhaps if we're lucky, another Windows user with GT200-based GPUs can
> comment about
> what driver versions work for them on Windows 10 w/ stereoscopic
> displays.
> Let's see if anyone else can comment on their recent experiences here.
>
> Best,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 09:26:35AM -0400, Carlos Simmerling wrote:
> > hi all, I have an Nvidia 3D vision setup including the LCD shutter
> > glasses, 3D vision monitor, emitter and quadro card. It should all
> work
> > fine with VMD, and the Nvidia 3D setup wizard tests do work fine for
> me.
> > This also used to work in VMD when I used windows 7 on this PC. Now,
> > however, when I select quad buffered stereo in VMD I get only a single
> > image (very slightly shifted from the image with stereo off). My
> quadro
> > fx 5800 drivers are up to date (342.01). VMD seems to recognize the
> setup
> > (see below). Any suggestions?Â
> > thanks!
> > ) VMD for WIN32, version 1.9.3 (November 30, 2016)
> > Info)Â [1]http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> > Info) Email questions and bug reports to [2]vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > Info) Please include this reference in published work using VMD:
> > Info)Â Â Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., `VMD - Visual
> > Info)Â Â Molecular Dynamics', J. Molec. Graphics 1996, 14.1, 33-38.
> > Info) -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Info) Multithreading available, 8 CPUs detected.
> > Info) Free system memory: 2047MB (100%)
> > Info) OpenGL renderer: Quadro FX 5800/PCIe/SSE2
> > Info)Â Â Features: STENCIL STEREO MDE CVA MTX NPOT PP PS GLSL(OVFG)
> > Info)Â Â Full GLSL rendering mode is available.
> > Info)Â Â Textures: 2-D (8192x8192), 3-D (2048x2048x2048),
> Multitexture
> > (4)
> > Info) Spaceball driver not installed. Spaceball interface disabled.
> > Info) No joysticks found. Joystick interface disabled.
> > Info) Dynamically loaded 75 plugins in directory:
> > Info) C:/Program Files (x86)/University of
> > Illinois/VMD/plugins/WIN32/molfile
> >
> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 1. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> > 2. mailto:vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
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