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After NVIDIA 3d can you go back?
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Don't consider it the next logical step forwards myself, after the first couple of weeks or so I barely use it. The effect is pretty cool but its extra effort setting it up, you have to sacrifice some advanced shadow/shader effects in many newer games which somewhat offsets the extra effect of 3D and for fast paced FPS games, etc. I felt it was holding me back from playing my best.
This through and through. It's a party trick, not a lot more - some great moments but too much work for day to day gaming.
However, a 120hz monitor was a bit of an understated blessing, bye bye vsync and screen tearing.
I tried it for a few days and just sent it back for a refund, I barely noticed the 3d effect in many titles and it's basically like trying to play with vsync on but worse.
Very few games support it without you having to disable settings, basically every game you start a game you will get told what you need to disable in order to experience the best results.
Having to reconfigure most of your games for 3d is a pain, also the crosshairs are a problem, they appear to just hover which looks a bit weird, nvidia have included their own crosshair which you can enable but allot of games don't let you disable the in game crosshair so it's not much use.
If you bearly noticed any 3d effects in games you have to conced that your one of the 10% of the uk population that cant see in 3d its not the kit that doesnt work its you
If you bearly noticed any 3d effects in games you have to conced that your one of the 10% of the uk population that cant see in 3d its not the kit that doesnt work its you
I can see it fine, the effect in games is far to subtle as the games were never designed for it.
3d films for example look awesome, as do some images, I don't think it works very well in games.
Hi,
Whilst i dont have 3D, i have 3 friends who do and after the first two weeks of o my god its wicked i never hear them talk about it again. When asked they are never using it, i think the main reason is they play online FPS and dont feel they play as well with it on, if they get a new game they use it first time then after that back to 2D.
I would be more keen on multi monitor myself to give a bigger sense of scale
Whilst i dont have 3D, i have 3 friends who do and after the first two weeks of o my god its wicked i never hear them talk about it again. When asked they are never using it, i think the main reason is they play online FPS and dont feel they play as well with it on, if they get a new game they use it first time then after that back to 2D.
I would be more keen on multi monitor myself to give a bigger sense of scale
that's the exact opposite of what everyone who's ever used my kit has said about it.
I only used my 3d setup for about 2 weeks when i got it a year ago. It wasn't bad but having incompatibilities with the games i would normally play and making me play like crap in FPS games was a big drawback for me.
Another problem i had was my eyes getting tired looking at the screen even for a short amount of time.
Another problem i had was my eyes getting tired looking at the screen even for a short amount of time.
Subtle?
Lol.....
Wut?
If anything its too much when playing on-line as the time it takes to focus on stuff in the distance usually means you are dead, so for that reason I stick to 2d on-line as there's too many people with razor sharp reflexes as it is without giving them another advantage over me.
Saying that I like a BFBC2 sesh still every now and then for something different.
I tend to stick to single player stuff for 3d..... 100% viewing distance all the way. (Apart from Black ops which looks weird at anything above 50%.)
Funny because everybody who tested my kit pretty much agreed with me, did you try any 3d movies like avatar?
Theres not enough depth in most titiles I played, it just looked weird. Increasing it just gave me double vision.
The floating crosshairs where nice though,
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ebilcake, you need to read up on how to configure 3d vision pal 
It blows your mind at 100% depth with correct convergence.
Took a while for me to get the hang of. But watching ANY movie is MUCH more subtle than what can be achieved with a game. Because, if you think about it.......
The game is being RENDERED by your machine. Hence it can interpolate/converge frames at whatever it likes. I believe blu-rays are preset and thus only react to the depth. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
It takes time to train your eyes nevertheless - but doing so with games is much easier for me than movies. As my brain's expecting a certain vantage point when I move. It's hard to explain; but allows me to lose focus of the specifics and allow each eye to pick up each image correctly.
Practice makes perfect - particually when you're messing with something you've spent learning all your life-- you're now focusing at the same distance but being 'faked out' with eye specific frames to portray 'depth' when in fact your eyes are still looking at a 2d screen..
Long reply is long.. but got carried away
It blows your mind at 100% depth with correct convergence.
Took a while for me to get the hang of. But watching ANY movie is MUCH more subtle than what can be achieved with a game. Because, if you think about it.......
The game is being RENDERED by your machine. Hence it can interpolate/converge frames at whatever it likes. I believe blu-rays are preset and thus only react to the depth. (Correct me if I'm wrong)
It takes time to train your eyes nevertheless - but doing so with games is much easier for me than movies. As my brain's expecting a certain vantage point when I move. It's hard to explain; but allows me to lose focus of the specifics and allow each eye to pick up each image correctly.
Practice makes perfect - particually when you're messing with something you've spent learning all your life-- you're now focusing at the same distance but being 'faked out' with eye specific frames to portray 'depth' when in fact your eyes are still looking at a 2d screen..
Long reply is long.. but got carried away
ebilcake, you need to read up on how to configure 3d vision pal
How exactly do you configure it? you don't have much to adjust.
But it doesnt matter as I sent it back, I won't be using 3d again unless I'm at movies which imo is the best use for it.
Maybe when we have displays that do 3d with no glasses.
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This discussion could go on forever , fact is a lot of people prob cant set it up right and thats a big problem
Playing l4d and the zombie hoards running at you is genuinely scarey, your heart rate gos up as you feel your there !
Very hard to describe i dont care about headshot or kills in fps now for me its all about the complete experiance , but i know some people the kill count is god !
Playing l4d and the zombie hoards running at you is genuinely scarey, your heart rate gos up as you feel your there !
Very hard to describe i dont care about headshot or kills in fps now for me its all about the complete experiance , but i know some people the kill count is god !
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for movies you can just about deal with the extra eye strain for a couple of hours, but sat infront of a 3D monitor playing games is a serious eye workout.