emagin stereo vision quadro fx 570

[mspusch]

nVidia Quadro cards work if they can do fullscreen active stereo which the better ones all do. do for example the Quadro FX 570 card should work.

viz.QUAD_BUFFER should do it, combined obviously with the correct nVidia graphics card settings which must allow software controlled active stereo.

one thing that you should always do is to have ONLY the emagin connected for the first round of testing, and a monitor only 'behind' the emagin, i.e. connected thru it's out-vga port.

if you connect a monitor in parallel (i.e. with the second output of the graphics card), then this could be a reason why it's not working.

anyways, to answer the questions, all higher-end quadro cards work in stereo.

also, the nvidia geforce 7950 cards were the last series of a 'consumer card' which reliably worked with the nvidia consumer stereo driver.

[tobin]

Regarding nVidia's support of their consumer class stereo (on Geforce series hardware), the nVidia website claims to now support current Forceware drivers under Vista. It seems as if the XP support for consumer stereo may have frozen with the 7-series as suggested above.

WorldViz has always found the consumer class stereo drivers be quite fragile, so you won't know if this is an option for your particular hardware until you've tried it. If you want robust active stereo, then Quadro hardware is the recommendation.

[Gladsomebeast]

The new Vista Forceware Geforce drivers do not support shutter glasses stereo, aka frame sequential stereo, aka active stereo. The eMagin requires this kind of stereo and therefore is not supported by the new Vista stereo drivers.

The vista stereo drivers only support passive polarized stereo and red/blue anaglyph stereo.

As stated, a Geforce 7000 series or Quadro is required for the eMagin.