To all nVidia users: turn off Stereoscopic 3D

[ratePV]

As Rafael Rivera said in his article:NVIDIA Stereo 3D Vision service bug causes handle leak - Within Windows
All users of drivers 186.xx and up should disable the NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver Service because it is the cause of some memory leaks and crashes.
Even the beta versions are affected with this bug, but nVidia says that it will fix this bug "sometime this month".




p.s. And a BIG HELLO to sevenforum! This is my first post!

 

[zigzag3143]

Hi and welcome to SF. Nice post and thanks for filling out your system specs.

Ken

 

[ratePV]

Hi and welcome to SF. Nice post and thanks for filling out your system specs.

Ken

thx. yeah i figured that it would be smart to fill it out.

 

[lokiundergod]

Nice catch, thanks for the info.

 

[lavanjoy]

Thanks for the information. I am also having an issue with NVIDIA win7 drivers.

I'm using XFX 8500 GT (256 MB) card for the past 9 months with vista wihtout any problem. Last week I switched to Windows 7. After that also ,the display doesn't have any problem. But when watching movies, it looks pixelated. I installed the latest NVIDIA drivers also. Intel onboard graphics works properly with windows 7. I hope NVIDIA people will solve this also.

 

[Vapor]

Kinda sux that you have to install the driver..., bad decision to have to install something that effects real world gameplay

 

[stormy13]

Kinda sux that you have to install the driver..., bad decision to have to install something that effects real world gameplay

How about the fact that it gets installed whether you have Nvidia's special 3D kit (and the monitor to use it) or not,

NVIDIA 3D Vision Buying Options

 

[ratePV]

Yep it comes bundled with Nvidia drivers but its pretty usseles so my advice-disable the service anyway (unless you have 3d glasses or something!)

 

[swarfega]

Thanks for the headsup. Seems pretty useless for most people to have it enabled by default.

 

[ratePV]

Thanks for the headsup. Seems pretty useless for most people to have it enabled by default.

Yep we should have a option to enable/disable it during setup. Its pretty usseles to 80% of people.

p.s. THANKS FOR THE REP.!

 

[dmex]

As Rafael Rivera said in his article:NVIDIA Stereo 3D Vision service bug causes handle leak - Within Windows
All users of drivers 186.xx and up should disable the NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver Service because it is the cause of some memory leaks and crashes.
Even the beta versions are affected with this bug, but nVidia says that it will fix this bug "sometime this month".

Howdy and welcome to the forums

There was a driver update from NVidia last Thursday fixing these issues

Steven

 

[ratePV]

Howdy and welcome to the forums

There was a driver update from NVidia last Thursday fixing these issues

Steven

It seems that i didnt spot the fix for this.
Are you talking about beta drivers cause all i see are the 190.38 drivers?

EDIT: I cant even find the driver update...

 

[pparks1]

I didn't see any newer drivers other than 190.38...which caused issues with my EVGA 9800GT+. (namely, during gaming my video card fan would spin up and then would never spin back down on it's own once the card cooled down). Since the rest of my box is very quiet, this was extremely noticeable. I've gone back to the previous 186 drivers and everything there has been fine.

 

[ratePV]

I didn't see any newer drivers other than 190.38...which caused issues with my EVGA 9800GT+. (namely, during gaming my video card fan would spin up and then would never spin back down on it's own once the card cooled down). Since the rest of my box is very quiet, this was extremely noticeable. I've gone back to the previous 186 drivers and everything there has been fine.

Yes actually i have the same issue but its due to the fact that the gfx
correct its rpm of fan equal to the % of occupation-infact it should measure the temp and then adjust the fan.

 

[pparks1]

Yes actually i have the same issue but its due to the fact that the gfx
correct its rpm of fan equal to the % of occupation-infact it should measure the temp and then adjust the fan.

I'm not really sure what you are trying to say. Even when I finish my game and my machine has sat idle for 10-15 minutes my fans are still running at 70% on my video card...versus the previous driver experiences where after about 2-3 minutes my box was down to 35% on the fan which is almost unnoticeable.

 

[ratePV]

I'm not really sure what you are trying to say. Even when I finish my game and my machine has sat idle for 10-15 minutes my fans are still running at 70% on my video card...versus the previous driver experiences where after about 2-3 minutes my box was down to 35% on the fan which is almost unnoticeable.

Ok, then that means its a driver issue:huh:...but the second I enter a newer game it sounds like a leafblower, and when i exit it stops, i check the tempts and they are about 1 C up.

Conclusion: it blows with no real reason!

 

[pparks1]

Ok, then that means its a driver issue:huh:...but the second I enter a newer game it sounds like a leafblower, and when i exit it it stops, check the tempts and they are about 1 C up. conclusion: it blows with no real reason!

Gotcha. I found the problem on the Nvidia forums after I had posted on the eVGA boards trying to come to a reason why my card was doing this. Once I get my final copy of Windows 7 in Oct, I'll reload the OS and use the newest drivers then and see what happens. For now, the 186 drivers are working quite nicely and I'll just leave well enough alone.

 

[ratePV]

Gotcha. I found the problem on the Nvidia forums after I had posted on the eVGA boards trying to come to a reason why my card was doing this. Once I get my final copy of Windows 7 in Oct, I'll reload the OS and use the newest drivers then and see what happens. For now, the 186 drivers are working quite nicely and I'll just leave well enough alone.

I agree totaly...golder rule:if it works,dont touch iT!

 

[chev65]

This is strange because I'm running the 190.38 and the steroscopic 3D is turned off by default. Having no problems at all with mine.

 

[ratePV]

This is strange because I'm running the 190.38 and the steroscopic 3D is turned off by default. Having no problems at all with mine.

You mean the service is disabled?
That is strange...People with the service on should get ther memory consuption
slightly going up at the coarse of time...especially if you dont turn off your comp
regularly (possibly causing memory overflow and BSOD)