| Author | Message | ||
     Werner Spahl Rating: N/A |
Will there ever be updated Wicked drivers with Pageflipping or even Interlacing or is there a principal problem that ties them to Syncdoubling only? | ||
| Andreas Schulz Rating: N/A |
Doesn't look like they will ever change.. Apparently page-flipping involves too much dependance on the different chipsets/drivers, while interlace is inferior w.r.t. flicker (and a sync-doubler is easier to build than a line-blanker - been there, done that, no T-shirt ;-( | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
Usually page-flipping has to be embedded into the graphics driver itself, like ELSA and ASUS did. Wicked3D is a wrapper which sits on top of the graphics driver. It's much easier not to mess with the internal functions of the VGA-chip from there. VR Standard did this for the VR-Joy drivers. They do page-flipping and as far as I know it's a wrapper, not a driver. I think it's time for Metabyte to do the next step. Page-flipping rules. Christoph | ||
| Michal Husak Rating: N/A |
VR-Joy solution based on Winx3D library is realy very interesting. I was just testing this drivers with such monstrosity as 3D Labs Oxygen GVX1 profesional graphic card (two ventilators, texture and geometry cooprocesor  ) and it worked (for 3DMark 2000). The Winx3D library gives the universality to this drivers ... | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
I visited the VRStandard booth at CeBit this year. We talked about the driver/wrapper development. Unfortunately the chipsets by NVidia and 3dfx are those which cause them the most troubles. These chipsets are the most important on the market. I don't know the latest status of the wrappers. Have to check. Christoph | ||
| Werner Spahl Rating: N/A |
On the VR-Joy page they claim to be able to use VRcaddy on the older Voodoo and NVDIA chipsets with the support for the newer ones to come. Is this a page flipping alternative to the Wicked 3D drivers? Are these drivers free to download? How good are they? Comparable to ELSA and ASUS? | ||
| Andreas Schulz Rating: N/A |
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| Kai Rating: N/A |
I wrote to Wicked3D and told them that they need to hurry up and make a page-flipping wrapper. This is what they sent me: "You'll notice that "all other 3D shutter glasses" which support page flipping write specific drivers for specific video card chipsets. We write a (hopefully) universal driver which supports any chipset we enable. Our former VP of Engineering and our former Chief Engineer both came to the conclusion that a universal page-flipping mode was impossible--it would have to be implemented directly in the video card drivers. That being said, one of our engineers recently figured out how to do it in our wrapper ;^>. He's only tested it on a couple of chipsets so far, but it looks really nice. It will probably be incorporated in the new driver re-write, which we're hoping to have ready around January." Sounds good to me. Hopefully they pull it off. | ||
| Werner Spahl Rating: N/A |
This sounds great! Maybe real page flipping will finally see the light for the new Voodoo cards! |
