Re: [PyMOL] hardware stereo problem

[Steve L. <dr...@rn...>]

Joris:

There is a thread (at least one, anyway) at the nvidia support forum,
that may address this problem:

  http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=85807

Note, however, that the problem the thread addresses is under linux,
not windows.

--
Steve Lane
System, Network and Security Administrator
Doudna Lab
Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Group
UC Berkeley


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:46:02AM -0400, Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS] wrote:
> Joris,
> 
> This is a well known problem with the NVIDIA cards.  It gets better
> with the newer highend cards but does not go away completely. You may
> want to invest in such a card and play around with different drivers.
> 
> Carsten
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pym...@li...
> > [mailto:pym...@li...]On Behalf Of Joris
> > Beld
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:44 AM
> > To: PyM...@li...
> > Subject: [PyMOL] hardware stereo problem
> > 
> > 
> > Dear Pymol users,
> > 
> > We have a problem with one of our hardware stereo equipped PCs.
> > 
> > For some reason, hardware stereo works fine for about 30sec but than 
> > switches to an inverted 3D image. And it keeps switching back 
> > and forth 
> > between the 'normal' 3D image and the inverted one, every 
> > 30sec. This is 
> > pretty annoying and even after reinstalling winXP, the right nvidia 
> > driver and playing around with all possible nvidia settings, 
> > we cannot 
> > find the problem. The problem is not Pymol specific, having the same 
> > problem in DSviewer. Does anybody recognize this problem?
> > 
> > The PC (AMD X2, 4GB, Nvidia quadro4 980XGL) is running winXP 
> > and one of 
> > the latest pymol builds (1.0r2).
> > The monitor is a high-end 21" (EIZO Flexscan T966) and we are using a 
> > stereographics emitter.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot in advance.
> > Best,
> > 
> > Joris Beld
> > ETH Z?rich
> > Switzerland
> > 
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