Changes between Version 10 and Version 11 of hardware

Timestamp:

Feb 18, 2016, 2:31:42 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

Conrad Huang

Comment:

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hardware

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 - a Microsoft Windows 7 PC with an NVidia Quadro FX 3700 and nVidia 3D Vision glasses and emitter and ASUS or Samsung stereo monitors.
 
-In the past few years, options for stereo viewing have changed. Unfortunately, Apple has chosen not to support stereo.  As of Mac OS X 10.11, there appears to be no stereo support in the Apple graphics driver, so there is no way to use Chimera with stereo glasses on a Mac (except in special full-screen configurations).  The Quadro FX 5600 graphics card that works with older Mac OS versions is reported not to work with Mac OS 10.11.
+In the past few years, options for stereo viewing have changed. Unfortunately, Apple has chosen not to support stereo.  '''As of Mac OS X 10.11, there appears to be no stereo support in the Apple graphics driver.'''  The Quadro FX 5600 graphics card that works with older Mac OS versions is reported not to work with Mac OS X 10.11.
 
 For Microsoft and consumer-grade graphics cards, there is both good news and bad news.  The good news is that ATI released the HD3D in 2013, a feature which enables consumer-grade ATI graphics cards to support quad-buffer stereo.  We have successfully used stereo in Chimera on a Windows 8 PC with an ATI HD7950 graphics card and a Samsung 3D TV.  The 3D TV uses "frame packing" stereo format, but ATI's graphics driver handles all the details and Chimera can be placed into "sequential stereo" mode just like before and everything "just works".  But now for the bad news.  When we upgraded to Windows 10, stereo stopped working. (Actually it works a few seconds at a time, but not continuously.)