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Offline silenthunder

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3D vision issues (help please)
« on: November 17, 2012, 04:48:29 am »
I have this laptop (Dell XPS L702X) that has an NVidia GeForce GT 550M and 3D vision and Win7 and all that shit. I upgraded it to Windows 8 Professional, and the drivers for the card got somewhat moved around and weren't working right. TBH, I expected this from the beginning, so no big deal. Reinstalled the drivers and everything, no problem. So now I want to set up my 3D vision again, so I run the setup wizard for it. I get halfway through the wizard (all the way up to the testing stage) and it takes a massive shit and stops responding and the screen sits there and flashes trying to figure out wtf to do. So between flashes I have to slowly move my mouse to the task manager to end the process (which for some reason is running as a 32-bit process on my 64-bit system, thank you windows 8 for including that information).

I know for a fact that the problem is NOT Winblows 8, so please don't suggest anything like that.

I downloaded and installed the drivers from the NVidia website, and they came with the option to make it a clean install and I checked that box. I've read on a few places on google that you should run Driver Sweeper or something similar before you install the new drivers. The drivers I installed are version 306, not the beta 310. I will attempt this tomorrow if I can't think of anything else by then, this is a big issue.

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The website walkthrough on installing the drivers says to begin the setup wizard by running "Enable 3D VISION Discover", this doesn't show up on my computer, so I ran the wizard through the NVidia Control Panel.


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Re: 3D vision issues (help please)
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2012, 08:37:45 am »
Drivers might be incompatible. Can't think of anything else.

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Re: 3D vision issues (help please)
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2012, 03:42:37 pm »
Considered that, so I went to Dell.com to get my drivers instead of the NVidia site because Dell actually had the option to download the Win8 drivers. The Dell site also included a "3D Vision USB Controller" which looked like something I'd probably need. So I downloaded that, installed that, I'll test it as soon as I get on my lunch break, and if it still doesn't work then IDK what to do. I have the option of running the drivers in compatibility mode for Win7, would that help?

EDIT: Got it working. It must have been some configuration issues with the original Win7 drivers. I completely uninstalled and deleted them, downloaded the Win8 drivers from dell and now it's good to go.
« Last Edit: November 18, 2012, 03:31:45 am by silenthunder »


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