8800 ultra stereo driver

[Gladsomebeast]

Try power-cycling the eMagin, then fire up Vizard with Quad Buffering. Perhaps the eMagin just needs a few tries to get synced with the active stereo signal.

By the by, viz.go should include the HMD argument for proper stereo disparity. I don't think this will fix the flickering in the eMagin though.

viz.go(viz.HMD | viz.QUAD_BUFFER)

[Dave]

Hi - thanks for the ideas. I tried powering the z800 on and off a few times and then running Vizard - didn't seem to make any difference. But here is a thing. When I run Vizard with viz.go(viz.FULLSCREEN | viz.QUAD_BUFFER) the image flickers and converges looking like a frame sequential stereo image - but still with both images sent to both eyes - no stereo, just flickering. When I run Vizard with viz.go(viz.HMD | viz.QUAD_BUFFER) I just get a pure, non flickering mono image! When I do the above two viz.go options with the GEForce 7600GS card (91.31 generic/stereo driver) I get a proper stereo image in the z800 (I guess it ignores the QUAD_BUFFER command) for both commands. I am just thinking that I am missing something obvious somewhere. I don't suppose running an executable version on the PC with the Quadro card makes any difference does it - I have Vizard installed on the 7600GS machine and am generating executables to try on the other machine. All ideas welcome. Thanks.

[Dave]

Further news - I have still had no joy with the Quadro FX1700 and stereo using the QUAD_BUFFER command and an Emagin z800. Our supplier has talked to NVidia - they think it is a problem with the driver not syncing properly with the z800 - they did send a beta driver 169.19 that they said would solve the problem but this didn't work either. So I think I will have to move to a different Quadro board and driver hat is known to work with the z800 - so here is the question. Has anyone out there actually successfully used an Emagin z800 with a Quadro FX board and a Vizard routine invoking the QUAD_BUFFER command to give stereo in the HMD. If so I would be very grateful if you could let me know which Quadro FX board(s) you used and which driver - at least then I can use something that is known to definitely work. Thanks in anticipation.

[Dave]

Also - referring back to my very first post - does anyone have any thoughts as to why the 8800 Ultra/162.50 driver combination doesn't work with Vizard? As I said - it shows the two test applications fine in stereo on the Emagin z800, presumably indicating that the 162.50 stereo driver works ok with the 8800Ultra card but crashes when a Vizard executable routine is launched. So, is this more likely to be something Vizard related?

[osorge]

@Dave: One question please...
I have bought a z800 and have a 8800 graphic adapter. The page flipping will not work on my computer. I use the same drivers but the z8000 controller box do not switch to 3D mode. any idea?