Old or new gfx card with new drivers and old games (NVIDIA)
- yomer
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Old or new gfx card with new drivers and old games (NVIDIA)
I used to play S-3D games in my old Ati Radeon 64MB card, with a mixture of Win3D, Edimensional, VRcaddy and maybe some other driver I don't remember. I could play Clive Barker's Undying, Collin McRae, Unreal, QuakeGL, Deus Ex, realMyst (you gotta try it) and some other games I can't recall. Today I got the opportunity to buy, for $30, a Dell 24 inch P1130 monitor which achieves about 110-120Hz at 1280x960. I have the old iArt Eye3d 4in1 Wireless glasses, which I believe still work. I want to buy an NVIDIA card for better compatibility, now the question:
If I wanted to play more old and some relatively new games, will the newest NVIDIA drivers be compatible with an older card? FX, 6, and 7 series. How's the compatibility page flipped and line synced? I will be trying to play even directx8 games, I don't remember if any of the games were directx7 also. The best scenario could be to buy a series 7 card, but will the new drivers (before NVIDIAs recent announcement) be compatible even with old games in D3D and OGL? Thanks.
If I wanted to play more old and some relatively new games, will the newest NVIDIA drivers be compatible with an older card? FX, 6, and 7 series. How's the compatibility page flipped and line synced? I will be trying to play even directx8 games, I don't remember if any of the games were directx7 also. The best scenario could be to buy a series 7 card, but will the new drivers (before NVIDIAs recent announcement) be compatible even with old games in D3D and OGL? Thanks.
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Well, officially at least, the new NVIDIA drivers are going to begin as Zalman only. That means your CRT monitor isn't going to do you much good.
HOWEVER, if you spend on an older generation card like a 6 or 7 series card, and use the available stereo drivers, you should have the mix you are looking for until you are ready for an upgrade.
Regards,
Neil
HOWEVER, if you spend on an older generation card like a 6 or 7 series card, and use the available stereo drivers, you should have the mix you are looking for until you are ready for an upgrade.
Regards,
Neil
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By newer drivers I mean the latest working on windowsXP. If I were to buy a geforce 7900GT, on vista, with the latest drivers compatible with XP and directx9; will my LCD shutter glasses still work? If not, which was the last revision which worked with LCD shutters? I really appreciate the time you spend answering my questions. Thanks a lot.
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I used the 91.31 combo to play Call of Duty 2 with DirectX8 (and 9 also) in S-3D (shutterglasses+CRT) if that is any help. All I tried of older DirectX.
I believe some ppl used the 91.31 combo to play a DirectX 7 game called Klingon Academy.
And You can buy new 3D glasses on ebay for 5$ in case Your old ones don't work:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... SA:US:1123
and cheap CRT monitors for ~2$:
http://computer.search.ebay.de/_CRT-Roe ... acatZ19549
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I believe some ppl used the 91.31 combo to play a DirectX 7 game called Klingon Academy.
And You can buy new 3D glasses on ebay for 5$ in case Your old ones don't work:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... SA:US:1123
and cheap CRT monitors for ~2$:
http://computer.search.ebay.de/_CRT-Roe ... acatZ19549
just don't use Vista
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I have been using the 91.31 stereo drivers on my 7900 GT for a while now, and they work just fine on any game I've thrown at it. I am not using the 91.31 forceware though, as I needed HDCP supprt for HDDVD playback on the same machine. I have found that the 91.31 stereo drivers work just fine with the 93.71 forceware (which HAS HDCP support). I have had no reason to change drivers since finding this working combo.
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It used to be free. I got it mixed up, it was the Winx3D drivers from a company called Win3D. But X3D acquired them and they stopped distribution of this free utility. It worked for some games, but I couldn't test it thoroughly because my S3D rig was very limited. If I remember well, it worked mostly with OpenGL games.
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Is it possible that driver still works for some new openGL games? Or maybe for Google Earth in OGL mode -if it has one?
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