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Passive 3D on Nvidia or AMD?

Craterloads

Craterloads

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Hi,

I'm going to buy the LG 47LM670T or 47LM620T and was wondering if either Nvidia/AMD cards are Passive 3D compatible.

A) Standalone 3D games
B) Dual play - Full screen splitscreen multiplayer. So both players see a full screen.
 
Think on the Nvidia you'd need to do an EDID override and use Nvidia's 3D Vision.

AMD's you'd need software such as Tridef.

That'll definitely work with A.
With B, I'm not sure, I don't ever see much splitscreen PC play.
 
Whats an EDID overide?

All ready got Nvidia cards so will try with them first.

B) i think its done on the TV itself. So just set the game into two player mode split screen and then change the settings on the TV. Anyhow thats how they show it on Youtube on the PS3.
 
A) The easiest solution is Tridef, regardless of gpu vendor with a passive 3D unit.

B) I don't know of any titles that do split screen gaming on PC, are there any?
 
Gotta disagree with the easiest.
It's definitely the Nvidia 3d vision given an EDID override is literally a 2 second thing.

It's also free.

He has the Nvidia card already by the sounds of it.
 
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If it works properly martini, then yes the EDID is best, but I tried it on my in laws LG 55LM760T and it wasn't very good at all.

There was a huge dark horizontal band running through the middle of the screen with 3 different EDID's.:(

@op, if it's for BOP'sII, then in W8, afaik, it's native 3D, so it should work out the box, idk if W7 has the option.

It's possible you could get Tridef for free too, if you use the EDID of one of the passive LG's that's supported on the Tridef website and download the software package, that's maybe where the license is acquired, but it's just a 'maybe', no harm trying.
 
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But don't think any splitscreen, I've never seen a splitscreen game on PC.
I've seen hot seat on Civilisation and that's it, and that was an ancient one too.
 
3d gaming is much better on amd :)

For hdtv's anyway.

Amd you just switch on 3d and away you go. 1080p 30fps

Nvidia you download 3dtv play and then the best you get is 720p or 1080p 24fps. On nvidia they have completely ignored the hdtv market and there is no 1080p sbs or 1080p cb.
I have been struggling to get mine going properly and have tried tridef but keeps crashing on loading.

I haven't tried EDID people are talking of yet but I will go try that tonight but to be honest was a lot easier to use and I had better results on amd.

I am nvidia fan boy but there nvidia 3d program seems to be made for monitor only.
 
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Urgh, that doesn't sound good at all Tommy.
At least he has the Nvidia GPU to test first before he buys Tridef.
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Yes, by all means give it a go, you might strike it lucky.

I tried it a few months ago now with the then WHQL driver, a few different betas and a pre-6 series driver but they all had the dark horizontal band.

If it's split screen MP though your after, then I think a 360/PS3 would be a better choice tbh as undoubtedly they have more split screen support due to the console being a sofa machine.
 
I'd just suggest you got a 4k TV considering your sig says 8 x GTX 680 4GB. That would be money well spent. That will also do passive and active without the need for glasses, look at the new Sony range.
 
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