OK, I'm glad I found this thread. Here's some of my data copied from another post:
7800GTX-185.20/162.50 - does not trigger glasses. Does work in multicore. Lasersight image scrambled.
7800GTX-177.83/162.50 - does not trigger glasses.
7800GTX-177.66/162.50 - triggers glasses. Dual-core works. Lasersight image scrambled.
7800GTX-174.74/162.50 - reboots computer when s3d enabled.
***7800GTX-173.68/162.50 - triggers glasses. Dual-core works. Good Lasersight image but 0 transparency control. Update: dual-monitor mode is missing in this version. Span and Clone modes work normally.
7800GTX-163.71/162.50 - triggers glasses. Does not work in multicore.
What I was looking for was a driver that...
a ) didn't crash in dual-core mode on my AMD athlon64 X2 6400 on winXP-32bit, SP3.
b ) triggered the shutterglasses, and
c ) had a properly functioning lasersight.
d ) has all dual monitor modes available: clone, dual, horizontal and vertical span modes. The nView multi-monitor options only show up after you plug in a second monitor but you don't need to restart your computer, just restart the nvidia desktop control panel with the new monitor turned on. It should detect it on the second try if not the first.
It turns out that Lasersight transparency doesn't work for me in 173.68/162.50 but I think I will still use it and see how good it is otherwise.
Driver sources:
laptopvideo2go and 3dguru are my two main sources for drivers other than nvidia. They have way too many drivers to test. By the way, you can use laptopvideo2go's inf files to install various drivers onto your laptop if it has an nvidia chip that you wouldn't normally be able to install to. You can PM me if you need help with it. You just replace the inf file and do a normal install although there's some risk I guess. You can try the same approach if you encounter a driver that doesn't want to install on your hardware.
the acid test:
I think a good test for driver stability is to set StereoOSDEnable to 1 in the windows registry under Stereo3D and see if that works or crashes (reboots) your computer. 173.68/162.50 passes this test for my 7800GTX card. Fortunately XP is pretty good at recovering from crashes but normal people probably don't want to do these kinds of tests.
Triggering the shutters:
if you're using a combo that does not trigger your shutters and you have an E-Dim dongle that DOES respond to Blue-Line-Code, then you can try these registry entries to use BLC with that combo. In the windows registry under Stereo3D, set StereoViewerType to hex 00000010 and create a dword called "LineCodeColor" and set it to 000000ff for blue or 00ffffff for white. It worked with 185.20/162.50 but not 197.75 so it won't always work. You can make different colors for fun as it's 00rrggbb. After you make the changes, don't run the nvidia control panel or else it will change values back to normal shutterglass mode.
A buzzing quirk:
Now that I'm using multicore mode more, I'm getting a buzzing from the PC speaker in my computer case. I'll post more about that in another thread. Switching to one core fixed it. It might be a power supply issue.
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Later all,
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