[Chimera-users] Problem with Nvidia Quadro FX 880M and Stereocopic view

[Veli-Pekka Kestilä]

Thank you,

I had missed the settings on that other place. Now it works quite well.
(barring some issues with external monitor) I also noticed that overlay
setting in same menu should be on or whole desktop would get blurry
(with or without stereo glasses on).

-vpk

On 3/1/11 10:36 PM, Greg Couch wrote:
> If both Chimera and PyMol are complaining, then you've haven't
> configured OpenGL stereo correctly. The NVidia Quadro driver
> configuration has two places to setup stereo. There are the
> "Stereoscopic 3D" settings that are not helpful for chimera (except for
> making NVIDIA's stereo image viewer work). So in addition to that, you
> want to setup stereo in the "3D Settings / Manage 3D Settings" dialog.
> In there, turn on "Stereo - Enable" and select the appropriate kind of
> stereo in "Stereo - Display mode".
>
> Good luck,
>
> Greg
>
> On 02/28/2011 09:11 PM, Veli-Pekka Kestilä wrote:
>>
>> I have done all of these and as I said in my original e-mail I got the
>> full screen tests nvidia provides working. Problem is that when I try to
>> start Chimera or PyMol it fails complaining that 3d vision mode isn't
>> available. So question still basically is if it's possible to get it
>> working with Quadro 880M
>>
>> On 2/23/11 4:40 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote:
>>> also see :
>>> http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Stereo_3D_Display_Options#NVidia_NVision_3D_Setup
>>>
>>> . It has some instructions on how to setup 3d vision on windows.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Sabuj Pattanayek<sabujp at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> IIRC there's an option in the windows nvidia configuration utility
>>>> that enables and disables nvidia 3d vision. I assume that's the setup
>>>> you're trying to use, so check that to see if it's enabled or
>>>> disabled.
>>>>
>>>> 2011/2/23 Veli-Pekka Kestilä<veli-pekka.kestila at helsinki.fi>:
>>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2/22/11 8:12 PM, Tom Goddard wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Veli-Pekka,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is either a driver configuration problem or driver limitation or
>>>>>> driver bug. Your driver is from Oct 2010 and there are newer ones.
>>>>>> The
>>>>>> following 266.58 driver was released Jan 18, 2011 and the notes
>>>>>> say it
>>>>>> adds support for various "3d vision notebooks". Maybe the new
>>>>>> driver is
>>>>>> needed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-266.58-whql-driver.html
>>>>>>
>>>>> I installed back the newest driver and problem still persist. So it's
>>>>> problem either with driver or the card.
>>>>> 880M isn't very high end on the Quadro Cards.
>>>>>
>>>>>> If it is a driver configuration problem, I don't know about that. Our
>>>>>> expert on stereo and Windows is on vacation this week but can
>>>>>> advise you
>>>>>> next week.
>>>>> Seems that I will be waiting for that. Thank you for your reply. And
>>>>> hope to hear from you next week.
>>>>>
>>>>> -vpk
>>>>>
>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have problem with Nvidia Quadro FX 880M and Stereoscopic view.
>>>>>>> When I
>>>>>>> switch the stereoscopic view on in Chimera it gives me following
>>>>>>> error:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> stereo viewing (Unable to find hardware stereo support
>>>>>>> (couldn't choose pixel format
>>>>>>> Couldn't configure togl widget)).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have installed the Quadro drivers version 259.57 in Windows 7
>>>>>>> 64bit.
>>>>>>> And separate 3D driver for Quadro.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>>> Veli-Pekka Kestilä
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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