Quake3 not rendering in stereo

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Yesterday my first S-3D hardware arrived 8) Unfortunately, when I swapped out my ATI card with my FX5200 I discovered the card was dead. Same with my Ti4200. Guess I should store them in anti-static bags Found a couple of old MX440s from salvaged PCs. While crap, it works and I installed the 91.31 drivers and got the Medical test image and the Nvidia test program both to show in S-3D

So I started digging around for some of my old(GF2 compatable) games, and thought Q3 might be good for a blast, as Ive heard a lot of positive reviews of its S-3D compatability. However, the game wont render in stereo at all. THe only thing that is rendered in stereo are the Laser sight crosshairs, but becasue the rest of the image is 2-D, my brain resolves the laser sight as two dots, so really nothing is 3D

Unreal Tournament works, its by default a D3D game(Q3 is OGL), Ill try it in OpenGL later and see if the problem is with the renderer or not. In the meantime, are there any 'extra' things I have to do in order to make Quake3 work in stereo?

[Likay]

You need a driver that supports opengl. Not everyone does that. Try google for 93.81 forceware and stereo. Think you might have some luck with these.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1689 Stereodriver
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downl ... 93.81.html Forcewaredriver

Tell me if you're having any luck or not.

cheers

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cheers Likay, Ill try them out when I get a chance after the christmas festivities are over

[LukePC1]

Unreal Tournament works, its by default a D3D game(Q3 is OGL), Ill try it in OpenGL later and see if the problem is with the renderer or not. In the meantime, are there any 'extra' things I have to do in order to make Quake3 work in stereo?

So you tried Q3 in D3D mode? If yes, I think changing it to OGL should do the trick. I think even the 'old' 91.31 drivers are supporting Open GL. OGL is better for certain other games, too.

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nah, Q3 cannot be run in D3D

Havent tried much yet though because something managed to screw up my OS and Ive only just got back into my PC

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well, fixed my nvatabus.sys error, installed the 93.81 drivers, but Q3 is still no stereo If the problem is OpenGL, I guess its not so big a deal, as to my understanding, most newer games use D3D anyway. But people have been playing Q3 in stereo for ages though, so Im not sure whats up.

[Likay]

Doom3, Quake4 and Prey works in 3d with newer drivers and those are all opengl. Sounds very strange. I had great with 93.81 combo and i still use it from time to time when newer drivers gives up on newer games. Too bad though. These games are great in 3d and i guess doom 3 is too.

cheers

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Im thinking the problem may be the drivers not fully supporting the old GF2 card. I tried a couple of other OpenGL apps, Roller Coaster sim did nothing, and UT in OGL just went very dark when activating stereo. Im hoping to borrow a 6600GT tomorrow and try it out. Otherwise Ill be buying the best nvidia AGP card I can get ASAP, Im getting sick of being told my card is not supported when I try and run any of my games.

[LukePC1]

If the 6600 doesn't work, newer cards won't, too. If the 6600 works, every series 7 card should, too. (Maybe faster or slower, that depends...)
If you could buy a 8600 or something for AGP, it will not work, until Nvidia releases new drivers for Series 8 cards. Maybe they release a new driver for Series 8 and Vista, but they said the same last year

I thought mx440 was a GF4?
If you want to run it, you might have more luck with OLD drivers.

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the 6600gt worked, but was PCI-E so I had to borrow the entire PC

Youre right, I made a mistake, the MX440s were released with the 4 series cards. However, the GPU is simply a GF2 GPU with DDR ram strapped to it. The GF2 GPU when released was bottlenecked by the ram of its day. It in no way compares to a GF4 Ti.