Success now with Tridef at 120Hz using DisplayPort!
I have to disable the crossfire of my 6990 by using RadeonPro (as catalyst drivers don't show a disable option for the dual cards).
I can't get IZ3D to work but I think this is because Tridef and IZ3D are interfering with each other. With the bundled samsung version of tridef you cannot switch it off! Even if you don't start the game from the tridef launcher the Tridef driver still intervenes!
Anyway at least this proves I can get 120Hz 3D working. I agree the ghosting isn't great. I can see some additional sharpness/detail over SBS. I wouldn't say it was Heaven and Earth difference though but I think that maybe because the ghosting partly distracts/removes some of that gain.
LFD2 works quite well if you leave the depth at 50 and then raise the adjustment for infront of screen to 70. Then the guns you hold are infront of the screen as if you are standing outside the screen shooting in...pretty cool.
I mean all of that, there is very little distinction between subtle shades, looking at photographs, everyone looks airbrushed and made of plasticine.
In videos, everything looked bland and flat.
When I got the monitor, I had to check that it hadn't defaulted to a 16 bit colour depth, that's how instantly noticeable it was. The banding in games was atrotious.
When I had both monitors running together, I took a few screenshots in left 4 dead 2 to compare them side by side and the difference was massive. The 950 looked totally washed out, there was lots of banding, a lack of definition, the colours was washed out and less vibrant across the board, even the punchy blue sports car at the start of dark carnival looked muted and dull.
I tried every combination of settings to get this monitor to look good.
One way of making the colours more vibrant and punchy was to lower the gamma slightly in my gpu settings, tilt the monitor back slightly and ramp up the contrast on the display.
The monitor then started to get closer to looking half decent but of course it was useless because these settings totally destroyed the black levels and bright colours from about 26 upwards here - http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/contrast.php were just a block of the same colour.
Yes, I agree, either people are used to bad screens and notice no difference, are exagerating how good the panel is, or I just have a bad egg.
the samsung 245b is by no means a great monitor, a new modern 600 quid job should be blowing it out of the water in every respect.
So far my experience with 120hz has been bad, my 245b has put both the 950 and the lg I tried to shame.
120hz is very nice, I want it, but it's been a real pain in the backside so far
Yeah, it's been all boxed up and ready to go for the last 5 days, just waiting for some parcel paper to arrive.
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did a lot of more 3d tests, so here are my final conclusions (tested with Dragon Age, DX9):
switched to ati driver 11.5b hotfix, so tridef frame sequential with dp or dvi works now with my Radeon 5870, but...
Display Port or DVI 120Hz:
TriDef FS: works, but horrible ghosting and my eyes hurt (no real 3D Image?)
TriDef SBS: works, but horrible ghosting
IZ3D Shutter: works, but horrible ghosting and my eyes hurt (no real 3D Image?)
IZ3D SBS: works, but horrible ghosting
HDMI 60Hz:
TriDef FS: works perfect, no ghosting (but only 1080p/24 or 720p/60
TriDef SBS: works, but horrible ghosting
IZ3D Shutter: works, but horrible ghosting and my eyes hurt (no real 3D Image?)
IZ3D SBS: works, but horrible ghosting
so the only working and really playable mode is the HDMI frame sequential mode from TriDef -> hmm..that was not the reason for buying a 120Hz 3D Monitor
i am now definetly thinking about returning the monitor, looking for an 3DTV (with checkerboard and framesequential modes, like Samsung UE40D7090) or I will make a look to the Acer HN274H 120Hz Monitor.
