P3D VR Surfers and high color

["H a r o l d B a i z e" <baize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lincoln wrote:

>The only problems I have found with the Vrex shutter glasses are, the
>fact that you can only use them when you set your monitor to 256
>colors, and the other problem is that even on my P2 400mghz computer,
>the drivers won't even load.  I was never able to get it to work, and
>I almost don't even know if I care with the 256 color limitation.

I addressed this in a recent thread on SD3D. The drivers supplied by 
VRex only work well on a few systems. However, very good results can 
be achieved by setting your monitor (and video card) to an interlaced 
mode. Then all you need to do is turn on the glasses and transmitter 
to view interlaced stereo images on the web, or converted with 
DepthCharge to interlaced. With DepthCharge you need to set the default 
stereo viewing to be "left interleaved". 

The irony of this is that for MOST systems it is the HIGHEST 
color/resolution setting that will force an interlaced mode, and 
interlaced modes are more common in less expensive equipment. 
Bottom line is that you shouldn't have to use reduced color with 
VR Surfer.

As a side comment; it seems to me that VRex is reducing efforts and 
support for LCS glasses. I hope I'm wrong.

Harold





>Vrex told me that they would send some beta drivers for my system, but
>of course they never did.

Lincoln


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