Delay with NVidia Stereo drivers

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"G Heumer" <gheumer@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Is anybody using the NVidia stereo drivers with games, OpenGL demos or the
> like and experiencing a delay until the stereo mode activates?
>
> I am experiencing a delay with e.g. Quake2 , the Coin3D graphics API
> and a self-made OpenGL demo, but no delay with Windows OpenGL screensavers
> (e.g. tubes) and with Futuremark's 3DMark03. I am wondering, where this
> delay is coming from and how to get rid of it.
>
> A test revealed that (in case of the delay) about 550 buffer swaps have to
> be performed before the stereo mode is activated. So manually performing
> 550 buffer swaps in a for loop in my program reduces the delay to nearly
> nothing (without VSync), but i think there has to be a more elegant
> solution... ;-)
>
> Any hints welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Guido
No, I get no delay! What driver versions are you using? I am using 61.76,
but I did'nt get any delay with 56.64 either...

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

GTS wrote:
>
> No, I get no delay! What driver versions are you using? I am using 61.76,
> but I did'nt get any delay with 56.64 either...
>

The newest version downloadable from NVidia: 61.77.

Cheers,
Guido