I have an Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 running on a Win 7 64bit machine with the latest graphics driver (276.42) and a Samsung 2233rz monitor. The system I put together for Quad Buffered Stereo 3D apps.
Using the Nvidia control panel I enable Stereo and when I run a simple OpenGL based app with quad buffered (window) Stereo 3D it renders just fine.
However, when I try and run my app in full-screen mode, the stereo rendering stops, and monoscopic image. This is completely unusual to my experience.
Upon further review, if I set the window size to the maximum display width resolution (in this case 1680) it still renders stereo fine.
BUT when I set the window height to above 970 (of a maximum 1050) it then stops rendering stereo.
Any suggestions on where I can explore and understand what is happening?
How much video ram do you have ?
With a QBS framebuffer, you double the ram needed by main framebuffer (twice the color, depth, stencil …) so it can become a problem, especially with MSAA/FSAA.
I believe I only have 512MB - at least that’s what I get from looking at the “system topology” from the Nvidia control panel (see below).
It would be great to know if someone else has had the same problem and solved it with a larger video card - before I go out and buy a larger one.
Any thoughts? Can I help it by setting “System video memory” in Win7???
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NVIDIA System Information report created on: 01/12/2012 16:41:18
System name: ECHOPIXEL-PC
[Display]
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: Quadro FX 3700
Driver version: 276.42
DirectX support: 10
CUDA Cores: 112
Core clock: 500 MHz
Shader clock: 1250 MHz
Memory clock: 800 MHz (1600 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 256-bit
Total available graphics memory: 2303 MB
Dedicated video memory: 512 MB GDDR3
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 1791 MB
Video BIOS version: 62.92.6F.00.10
IRQ: 48
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2
[Components]
nvui.dll 7.17.12.7642 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdsync.exe 8.17.12.7642 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.12.7642 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdbat.dll 8.17.12.7642 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdapix.dll 8.17.12.7642 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.12.7642 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvCplUIR.dll 3.7.800.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvCplUI.exe 3.7.800.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSSR.dll 6.14.12.7642 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvWSS.dll 6.14.12.7642 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvSR.dll 6.14.12.7642 NVIDIA Video Server
nvViTvS.dll 6.14.12.7642 NVIDIA Video Server
NVSTVIEW.EXE 7.17.12.7642 NVIDIA 3D Vision Photo Viewer
NVSTTEST.EXE 7.17.12.7642 NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application
NVSTRES.DLL 7.17.12.7642 NVIDIA 3D Vision Module (0)
nvDispSR.dll 6.14.12.7642 NVIDIA Display Server
NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.12.7642 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 6.14.12.7642 NVIDIA Display Server
NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.12.7642 NVIDIA CUDA 4.0.1 driver
nvGameSR.dll 6.14.12.7642 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
nvGameS.dll 6.14.12.7642 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server
I tested an Nvidia app that the driver installs to test opengl stereo rendering (NVStereoUtilityOGL.exe), it goes full screen when you click the “F” key.
So with this app and by clicking “F” the stereo rendering holds.
I went into a bit more detail of my testing and noticed that stereo rendering stops if I click on the “maximize” icon on the window, or if I manually resize the window to have a height a bit larger than 1000 pixels. It does not appear to care for width size.
I then tested my app and stereo holds if I run it full screen from the start (hard coded to show no window borders or title bar), but it stops if I manually re-size as I describe above.
I have never experienced this, just wondering if anybody has had similar performance or could suggest a direction for me to explore that either the driver, video card or OpenGL registers are working correctly.
I just got this fixed with some help from the nvidia developers forum.
I disabled all GDI features via the “Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows” menu. Type “effects” inside the start menu search field and it gets listed. I selected “best performance” settings.
hat got it working correctly, I knew it was going to be a super simple thing. I had tried to deactivate the win aero stuff, but that had not got it working.