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     kbta Rating: N/A |
Anyone bought one of these yet ? Any comments ? Reviews ? KB | ||
| kbta Rating: N/A |
Hi all, Can't wait and got it. After several frustrated hours I still can't get any D3D game running stereoscopically. In the process I had to remove the G400, and both Voodoo2 SLI and reinstall the V7700 deluxe drivers more than couple times. Finally I gave up trying to get the games going and plug the camcorder in (Nu-View enhanced) and found great comfort in no flicker stereoscopic footages. I would appreciate any tips on getting this thing running for D3D games since I've got some new ones waiting... Once that gets going I can put my Voodoo2 SLI (by Wicked3d) back in for my GPL and WW2 at override hi-res. Or so I hope. KB | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
It should just work. What is your software configuration? Windows version? DirectX version? ASUS driver version? Which ASUS-VR options have you tried? What happens in the games? No stereo? No OSD? Crash? Black screen? BTW I wouldn't fool around with ASUS driver plus Voodoo driver plus Wicked3D wrapper. In theory it could work, but in practice it's too much of a hassle. Christoph | ||
| kbta Rating: N/A |
Thanks for your reply. After reading your message I realized the driver shipped was an old one (5.33) so I downloaded 5.16. Much better. D3D games started to show stereoscopic effects. But still lots of lockups so finally I bit the bullet and reformat/reinstall win98 SE. At this point all D3D games behave in a predictable way and fewer lockups which I think are something else and not related to the Asus V7700... Regarding games, there are some questions I hope you can help me with. Fisrt, Grand Prix 3: The stereoscopic effects are there but all the cars but mine have their tires running separately about 1 inch (distance on screen) on top of the cars which run with bare axes. Hilarious scene. I've tried to adjust the OSD parameters but that didn't help. I'm thinking except mines, the tires on all other cars are not 3d objects but not certain. Second, Jane's USAF: Once entering the menu to setup options, other games show depth but this USAF does _not_ and when selected to "fly", it either goes black or remain at the menu screen but the sounds indicate that the computer has entered the simulation/game. Cursor is still controllable and I was able to get out of the game. I've tried USAF in normal mode (no stereoscopic) and it works fine. Third game, Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs Hokum: once gotten into the menu, the cursor leaves trails and half of the screen doesnt change making half of the next screen invisible and so I can't select anything except the "exit" button which I know its location in the lower left corner. Again this game works in normal mode. Thanks for your help, KB | ||
| Paul Leonard Rating: N/A |
Yes, I have same problem with GP3. I think this is something at Microprose as I had exact same problem with wheels and much more with Spirit of Speed (a stinker of a game). GP3 uses sprites until the cars get close enough and then it changes over to 3D vehicles. I suspect this has something to do with it. Since every other game works great, including F1 2000, best to pass this one by for stereo. Paul | ||
| kbta Rating: N/A |
Paul, you are probably right on the sprites thing. I've returned GP3 yesterday due to this non-3D artifacts. On a different note, I've found last night that Flanker 2.0 exhibits the same problem as Comanche vs Hohum: in normal 3D it's fine but once stereoscopic is enabled the loading screen shrinks down to about 1/4 of the screen high(but remains the same screen width),the other 3/4 of the screen becomes inactive covering the menu display making selecting buttons impossible. Pretty much by random clicking my mouse buttons, it entered the game and for that narrow strip of screen it does show stereoscopic effect. That make two simulations/games developed in Europe (Enemy Engage:C vs H and Flanker 2.0) non compatible with the V7700 that I just bought. I'd be interested in how other gamers work around this problem of menu screen failure in stereoscopic mode. KB | ||
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Finally found the problem. Driver. The one that comes with Asus is rev. 5.33 but on their web is not listed as a driver for the V7700 so at the beginning when encountering the problem I switched to the older one rev. 5.16 which works for most games except the 3 mentioned on previous posts. F2, EECH, and USAF. Since then I've gone thru trying Eyescream wrapper + Detonator 6.31 + H3D glasses on the V7700. This combo works on the two games that I tried: EECH and USAF. Great I thought, it follows then that the "menu screen" problem is not a problem with the games, it must be the driver from Asus, (that's what my ignorant brain thought anyway). At the same time I appreciated the page flipping quality much more than that of the sync doubler from Wicked3d. So that was an easy choice. I had to re-tried the 5.33 driver that comes with my V7700. So I uninstalled my trusting Wicked3d wrapper, retired the H3D glasses, and reinstalled the Asus driver 5.33 and that did it for both Flanker 2.0 and EECH. Beautiful. But not USAF. Not in stereoscopic mode, it didn't work. I've tried to disable stereo prior to entering the game and invoked OSD in game but the OSD did not even appear. Bottom line is I got 2 out of 3 games work under stereoscopic with the V7700 with 5.33 driver that comes with the V7700. All other games behave well. So far. KB | ||
| Paul Leonard Rating: N/A |
I'm not sure but check that USAF isn't trying to share the OSD keys with its own keyboard mapping. If you haven't already, ensure that you are using the latest patch for USAF. I believe it dealt with a number of D3D issues. On another note, GPL has an unsupported patch that fully supports D3D and it looks great in stereo. It was developed by a one of the programmers on the GPL team. You should be able to find it at Blackhole Motorsports. Paul | ||
| kbta Rating: N/A |
I'm pretty sure I patched it to 1.02F I think. I've tried the D3D patch for GPL and had serious problem in menu screens. Texts are a confusing mess that are on top of each other. Most of the times I can't even got passed these screens because of this. 1 out of 10 times I can get in the game and it would work fine. I love GPL and really want to get it going but man ...the menuscreen problem is just too much. KB | ||
| kbta Rating: N/A |
Over the weekend I've download the 5.33a driver from Asus web page. This driver solves the GPL menuscreen problem and adds the dynamic on/off stereo toggle in game. Somehow I feel the stereo effects of this driver is _much_ better than the 5.33 version in games like Combat Flight Sim 2 and even in EECH which was phenomenal already. GPL is superb in stereo with 5.33a driver and the D3D patch. USAF remains the only elusive one. I hope this saga of mine will help somebody with the V7700 deluxe. KB | ||
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