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Old 12-14-2001, 11:33 AM   #24
Jim Sachs
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I just tried the new drivers. The Stereo settings tab does appear in Display Settings, and 3D does (sort of) work in Win2000. However, the image is very unstable, dropping several frames every second. The Revelator drivers that I had been using in Win98 were rock-solid.

Also, many of the settings which are in the Revelator drivers are missing from the nVidia drivers. With the Revelator drivers, you can set the foreground plane, background plane, screen width, the "center of depth" and several other parameters. These can all be adjusted using hot keys while looking at the scene.

When programming the new 3D background, I took great pains to make sure the the scene looked right with the default settings of the Revelator drivers. In other words, the front of the sand is right up against the glass of the monitor, and the tank stretches back in to the screen about 18 inches. The nVidia drivers put the whole scene about 6 inches deeper into the monitor, and does not fill the screen horizontally when set for the actual monitor size.
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