Alienware 17 3D Vision laptop with Kepler GPU (GTX 770M) the stereoscopic mode is always enabled on the desktop
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:40 pm
Hi there,
I recently upgraded my Alienware 17 3D Vision laptop (which has a Kepler card - GTX 770M) to Windows 10 (latest version). I used to run Windows 8.1 before.
On Windows 10 I have this one big problem:
When stereoscopic 3D feature is enabled (from the Nvidia Control Panel or 3D Fix Manager), the stereoscopic mode is always enabled on the desktop.
I don't get a depth effect obviously, but the stereoscopic mode is always on (the screen goes darker as it does when going into stereoscopic mode in Alienware laptops). And I do mean it's always on: When no apps are running (and only the desktop is showing), when notepad is running, always. It's not app-specific. Ctrl+T doesn't do anything. Back in Windows 8.1, the screen would go into stereoscopic mode only if it detected a Direct 3D 9/10/11 application running, which is the reasonable thing to expect.
This causes the following problems:
- Games with full-screen optimizations disabled don't cleanly exit to desktop, they exit to a black screen and the PC goes unresponsive to any input immediately afterwards (not even ctrl-alt-del or ctrl-shift-esc works). I temporarily fixed this by making the power button shutdown the system (instead of putting it to sleep) from the Windows power settings, so at least I will get a clean shutdown by pressing the power button
- The 3dtv.at Stereoscopic Player doesn't work unless you disable full-screen optimizations, and even then the depth effect only works in full-screen. This means that I have to shutdown my laptop after I am done watching one stereoscopic video due to the issue mentioned above. Mysteriously 3D Photo Viewer doesn't need full-screen optimizations disabled so it doesn't have this issue.
So, my question is: Is this normal? Does anyone have the same problem of stereoscopic mode being always enabled on the desktop?
Please help me, I have no clue if this behaviour is expected in Windows 10 and whether a fix exists or not, I was happily living on Windows 8.1 until last week.
Couple of extra notes:
- The highest drivers available for my system are 425.31, so no driver downgrade is required (and 3D Fix Manager didn't recommend one).
- I cannot upgrade the GPU to anything higher than Kepler because the 3D Vision-supported cards are whitelisted in the Alienware BIOS/EFI with no way to bypass this restriction, and Kepler is the last GPU architecture supported/whitelisted. Generally, there are no 3D Vision latops with GPUs higher than Kepler. And I already have another Alienware 17 3D Vision laptop with an 880M if I want to experience peak Kepler, so please no "just upgrade mate" comments.
I recently upgraded my Alienware 17 3D Vision laptop (which has a Kepler card - GTX 770M) to Windows 10 (latest version). I used to run Windows 8.1 before.
On Windows 10 I have this one big problem:
When stereoscopic 3D feature is enabled (from the Nvidia Control Panel or 3D Fix Manager), the stereoscopic mode is always enabled on the desktop.
I don't get a depth effect obviously, but the stereoscopic mode is always on (the screen goes darker as it does when going into stereoscopic mode in Alienware laptops). And I do mean it's always on: When no apps are running (and only the desktop is showing), when notepad is running, always. It's not app-specific. Ctrl+T doesn't do anything. Back in Windows 8.1, the screen would go into stereoscopic mode only if it detected a Direct 3D 9/10/11 application running, which is the reasonable thing to expect.
This causes the following problems:
- Games with full-screen optimizations disabled don't cleanly exit to desktop, they exit to a black screen and the PC goes unresponsive to any input immediately afterwards (not even ctrl-alt-del or ctrl-shift-esc works). I temporarily fixed this by making the power button shutdown the system (instead of putting it to sleep) from the Windows power settings, so at least I will get a clean shutdown by pressing the power button
- The 3dtv.at Stereoscopic Player doesn't work unless you disable full-screen optimizations, and even then the depth effect only works in full-screen. This means that I have to shutdown my laptop after I am done watching one stereoscopic video due to the issue mentioned above. Mysteriously 3D Photo Viewer doesn't need full-screen optimizations disabled so it doesn't have this issue.
So, my question is: Is this normal? Does anyone have the same problem of stereoscopic mode being always enabled on the desktop?
Please help me, I have no clue if this behaviour is expected in Windows 10 and whether a fix exists or not, I was happily living on Windows 8.1 until last week.
Couple of extra notes:
- The highest drivers available for my system are 425.31, so no driver downgrade is required (and 3D Fix Manager didn't recommend one).
- I cannot upgrade the GPU to anything higher than Kepler because the 3D Vision-supported cards are whitelisted in the Alienware BIOS/EFI with no way to bypass this restriction, and Kepler is the last GPU architecture supported/whitelisted. Generally, there are no 3D Vision latops with GPUs higher than Kepler. And I already have another Alienware 17 3D Vision laptop with an 880M if I want to experience peak Kepler, so please no "just upgrade mate" comments.