nVidia GeForce 3D Vision Driver Installation Tutorial & Setup Guide Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,585 words · ~7 min read
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well I recently did a little video guide on how to install your NVIDIA GeForce
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drivers today I'm going to be doing a quick little guide on how to set up
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NVIDIA stereoscopic 3D so the first
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thing I'm going to do is adjust my white balance so you're actually going to be
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able to read dialogue boxes that are on the screen aha there we go okay so the
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first thing we've got here is the NVIDIA control panel so we're going to go into
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the NVIDIA control panel and we're going to discover something
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when it loads yeah we are going to discover that I do not actually have any
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options in here at all for 3D Vision or
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stereoscopic 3D is what it would be under so the default drivers from NVIDIA
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actually do not include 3D Vision drivers because I mean the reality of it
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is 99% of people don't need it so you go to NVIDIA.com make sure you're always
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downloading the latest drivers for 3D Vision because it is quite complicated
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and they are making updates as often as they can so we select Windows 7 64bit
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the same procedure as with your driver installation search and download it's a
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300 megabyte full driver CD package and
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since I've already downloaded it I'm going to go ahead and just run it so yes
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I would like to run that particular
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program go ahead and install the 3D
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Vision driver so we click next I do not need the stereoscopic 3D viewer
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personally but if you want it it by all means okay so it only takes a little
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while to install actually and then the configuration
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process is quite simple first of all you need to be wearing your I'm going to
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just turn this thing you need to be wearing your 3D Vision
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glasses okay next you need to make sure
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that your IR emitter is plugged in via USB to the back of your computer so you
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should see a dim green light and I'm going to show you the difference so okay
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go ahead and finish okay y all right so
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now we go into the NVIDIA control panel again and there's going to be an option
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that we didn't have
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before oh yeah your glasses should also be charged they charge via USB and the
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uh power button is here so they should
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be charged and on so we do not have an option for ah
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here it is set up stereoscopic 3D so go
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ahead and click there and then we're going to use the setup wizard because
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just clicking enable stereoscopic 3D uh might not configure everything properly
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I don't know I haven't tried but the wizard takes only a couple minutes to
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run and walks you through some of the stuff that you need to know about 3D
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Vision before you use it so first of all it gives you a little checklist for all
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the things that you need to do for either 3D Vision or 3D Vision discover
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which is a a red blue Ana
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anaglyphic yeah I think it's anaglyphic anyway either way it's red blue lens
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system rather than the active shutter glasses so we go ahead and click next
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okay this shows us how to connect the IR emitter which I have already connected
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USB to the back of the computer it's quite straightforward okay we click
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next and then you select the kind of gaming configuration that you'll be
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using so single gaming computer in a
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room running 3D Vision where there are not other consumer IR devices such as TV
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remote control at the same time okay then you've got if you've got
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interfering things in the room and then there's also multiple gaming computers
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in a land gaming environment all running 3D Vision so that's where there would be
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a ton of interference because the IR emitter is actually just blasting out IR
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signals that tell the uh the shutter glasses when to when to shut off when to
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when to blank the frame for one eye versus the other okay so the next step
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now yeah you can't tell but my glasses
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have actually gone quite dark so this is the step the glasses turn on so I'm
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going to go ahead and let you look through the lens you see how dark the
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screen is compared to there it's because
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it's blocking out every other frame the monitor is running at its full 120 HZ it
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is a 3D Vision ready monitor I hope I mentioned that you need one of those and
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so press the onl look for a steady green
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light on the glasses as well as on the emter so that's the bright green light
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that I didn't show you before and there's no steady green light on those
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for whatever reason but they're on trust me they're on okay so I'm going to go
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ahead and put these back on okay so now that that's all figured
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out our glasses are on the emitter is on we are seeing that the image is dark
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this one so if I look close you see you can see both a green hexagon and a blue
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triangle but I'm going to show you something interesting if you look through the right lens you see only a
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blue triangle if you look through the left lens you see only a green hexagon
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so this is how 3D Vision Works there you can see both of them so it's blocking
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every other frame so on the monitor every other frame is displaying that
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green hexagon and every other frame is displaying the blue triangle so it's
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blocking it so my left eye sees the left image my right eye sees the Right image
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so for this part it says look through the right eye with the left eye closed
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so we do that okay select what you see we see a blue triangle if you look
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through the left eye with the right eye closed
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we see a green hexagon so I'm going to go ahead and select those options blue
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triangle green hexagon excellent uh this
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one do I notice a flicker in your peripheral vision okay this helps you
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configure it if you um if you're in a European area where they have 50 HZ
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power or a variety of other things so no I do not notice a flicker in my
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peripheral vision I go ahead and click next this is the last one verify that
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you are able to view stereoscopic 3D content so here I'm going to show you
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something interesting too select which of the following you see one with a box
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popping out or one without a box box popping out right now you see one
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without a box popping out but let's see what happens if we do this yeah that's
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not going to work okay hold on if I hold these far enough away will I be able to
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see the box at all this might be
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tricky hold on okay so what I need is I need the glasses as close as possible to
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where the Box pops up no this isn't going to work okay well you're going to have to trust me then uh I can see it
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this way right here also I have red and understand the
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health and safety information this is one of the reasons I would definitely
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recommend uh running the wizard so that you can make sure that you read and
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understand that I click next and then that's it I don't want to
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create a shortcut for that I don't want to launch a slideshow of 3D games then
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you click finish so once that's done you
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can see that the NVIDIA control panel has gone ahead and configured itself you
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can uh you can change the maximum depth you can also do that with the SC uh
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slider wheel on the back of the IR emitter when you're in game so you don't
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have to change the the maximum depth on the driver level you can set your
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keyboard shortcuts and you can test stereoscopic 3D it launches this
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horrible horrible thing here I'll show you this is so old here it's pretty
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funny actually it's the NVIDIA logo popping
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out at you it actually looks kind of funky on one monitor but when you
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stretch this thing over three monitors it's just just horrible this pink and
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yellow and black and gray thing anyway
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3D Vision is working on this system thank you for checking out my 3D Vision
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setup guide don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech
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tips oh yeah last thing make sure you have a video card that supports 3D
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Vision um here's your first hint if
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you're running one of these it does not support 3D Vision ATI currently does not
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have a stereoscopic 3D uh technology so
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you must be using an NVIDIA card 8800 series or higher in order to take
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advantage of 3D Vision