Desktop Dreamscapes (3D desktop) - P banding with it ?

[Admiral]

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It's a 3D Desktop based on the Far Gate game.
Was wondering how it behaves with the Parhelia ?

[UberLord]

Not nice. When you get the big screen sun-flares is very noticeable

[Michel]

I don't see the banding, but then again I don't know how it should look.

But with this 3d-desktop i have another problem: After running it for 10 minutes or enabling the freeze feature the whole system crashes.
After reboot WinXP shows me an error screen saying that the "Matrox Parhelia 128mb caused the problem. Do you want to send an error-report?"

[Peter Aragon]

Hmm, my system freezes after like 10 secs

[XHotKolaX]

I'm using DVI and was able to *finally* reproduce it to screen capture.

banding?

I did no editing to the screen capture. The parts other than the lil screen in the corner look like it's flickering heavily. Like sometimes watching the news, you can see the monitors in back flickering and having horizontal lines moving up and down them.

It doesn't happen often for me. Only when I force 4X FSAA..which I never use anyways.

[Wombat]

I can't see it in the screenshot, and I doubt anybody can. It shouldn't BE in a screenshot.

From what we've seen so far, it appears to probably be interference on the output of the Parhelia, and since screenshots read from the frame buffer (at the latest), the interference doesn't occur yet at that point.

Also, are you using DVI-A or DVI-D? People are already reporting that it doesn't happen at all on DVI-D.

[XHotKolaX]

Yeah, you can't actually see the banding but it's there where the windowed UT isn't.

That is what my picture looks like while it's banding tho'.

I'm using DVI-D. It's very hard reproduce. I did it once with the reef demo, took a screenie and couldn't do it again. It does, however, look the same as the screenie I gave. It's not a big problem for me tho' since it rarely, hardly ever happens.

If it is interference, any pointers on reducing it?

[Wombat]

If it's DVI-D, it's not the banding. What kind/how many monitors are you running.

[XHotKolaX]

Ok, well I called it DVI flickering a while back. That was what it looked like to me. But since the "banding" stuff came up..I figured the horizontal lines looked like "bands" and I thought everyone was seeing the same thing as me finally.

Of course, english isn't my first language so I might not have taken what "banding" means correctly.

I'm running an IBM T85D 18"

It's about 2-3 years old now...I'm having a hard time finding specs for you on IBM's site.

[redgreenbluex3]

i just download it .
never had a 3d desktop before they are great .
it only seems to work on two of my 3 screens though on 1024 x 768 on each and when i drop down to 800 x 600 on each it shows up on 2 and then takes up half of the desktop on the other.
werid.
but i dont think it was design with triple head in mind