I've decided to spend my money on a pair of EDimensional 3d glasses. However, when I try to activate the 3d effect in FS9, it keeps crashing with the message that FS has encountered an error and must close. Are there any users of the glasses that have had this problem and resolved it?Victor

You haven't said what type of video card you have or what drivers your are using. Make sure you are using the latest drivers etc for your card.

Ah yes, quite an important bit of information!I'm using a Radeon 9600 Pro with the 6.14.10.6396 drivers.Victor

I don't have the glasses myself but now that you have given a little bit more info I'm sure you will find your answer....Although technically this is not the forum for this question and the moderators are likely to move it to the correct on....IE the hardware forum.

Oh ok, that makes sense. But where is the Hardware forum?I've just updated to the latest Catalyst drivers (4.2?) but now I get this message when I try starting FS9 "Invalide Hardware or Driver DetectedThe drivers currently installed for your video card may cause your computer to stop responding when FS is running."Victor

If you had scrolled down in the forum list you would have found it. http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=151Did you get that message with the glasses hooked up and installed or not? I have an ATI Radeon 9500 Pro and I have not gotten that message with any driver including the latest. Have you contacted E-dimensional?

Oh yes! I must get my eyes tested!!I'll repost there.Victor

I've reposted on the hardware forum but I haven't had any replies yet. Just in case there is someone here that reads the MSFS forum but not the hardware forum, I'll bring this back to the top. Sorry anybody, if I shouldn't do that!!Just to add, I've used Powerstrip (a program recommended by Edimensional for display problems) to reduce my refresh rate down to 44hz (my absolute minimum is, I understand, 42hz. That still doesn't solve the problem.

Now why the heck would you want to REDUCE your refresh rate down that low. 60hz is painfull enough but 44hz!!??? Plus when using the glasses it effectively reduces that rate in half for your eyes. I used to have an ASUS video card that came with 3D glasses and I would have them at the highest refresh rate possible. I think you need to start from scratch and get everything working right WITHOUT the glasses and then add the glasses back in.

>Now why the heck would you want to REDUCE your refresh rate>down that low. 60hz is painfull enough but 44hz!!??? Plus when>using the glasses it effectively reduces that rate in half for>your eyes. I used to have an ASUS video card that came with 3D>glasses and I would have them at the highest refresh rate>possible. I think you need to start from scratch and get>everything working right WITHOUT the glasses and then add the>glasses back in.Yes 44hz does seem very low but if the glasses double the frame rate, that equates to 88hz. ED suggest 50hz on their help file.As regards getting everything else working right, it already does. The only reason I tried the newer graphics card drivers was the fact that I often see "If it doesn't work, update the drivers". Well I tried but I'll stick with my previous ones.

Well like I said with the glasses that came with my ASUS cardyou set your base refresh rate at the highest you could. Since with the glasses enabled you get two pictures displayed in the same time period, that rate is halved. So it still sounds backwards...Unless the e-dimensional drivers take whatever rate you have without the glasses and then temporiarly doubles that while the glasses are on...Sounds like a poor way to handle things if you ask me, requiring you to have the refresh rate too low while the glasses are not on. It could even cause your monitor to go out of sync if you didn't set the refresh rate low enough prior to enabling the drivers.

Yes, it does seem a bit arse about face. I set my refresh to 85hz and downloaded a game demo (VRally 3) to see if that worked. It did. Obviously (in my system) the problem lies purely between ED's glasses and MSFS

Aaahaaa!!I better look at the Edimensional website shows that ATI support for Flight Simulator 2004 is "coming soon" and a call to their sales line received the response that it was coming "in the next few days". I wonder if that's a real "few days" or a flexible "few days". If the later then I'll be sending them back with the moral that I should check out information on products more thoroughly before I buy them!! :-)Victor

Well, I can tell you this much:I first contacted ED and they told me I needed WinXP. So I bought WinXP Pro. No joy. So then they told me (and this was just after the first of the year) - we'll support it in a week.So, I got to reading more on the system - really picking it apart and discovered that you need a monitor that does at least 100 preferably 120 HZ refresh. So I bought a new monitor. I've screwed around with it with both drivers they sent me via email and that came on the CD.The drivers I got from them - well actually a dll doesn't work. The one that came with the CD (Version 3) does work. Well, sort of. Yes, there is 3-D but now all the trees have black backgrounds around them - obviously a bitmap/colormaping problem.I've learned that it doesn't matter what you set your display to - well, actually it does in my case I need to set it above 800x600 so I just set it back to 1280x1024. Inside MSFS2004 I set the display to 800x600 as that is what my monitor can handle at 120hz refresh. And I do get the three-D albeit with the black backgrounds around the trees.So, It's been over two months since I queried them about supporting MSFS 2004 and I guess they still aren't. Their website is terribly out of date. I think they think it's not a priority. Oh, and one other thing - even though the icon shows up in my task bar - it doesn't work. I have to exit it and manually click the ed icon in the ATI folder.Hope this helps. I've been mucking with this thing for days trying to get it to work.Captain GeoffSenior Captain, Pier Glass Aviation