My instructor brought in his gaming rig from home a while back and he was running with a nvidia 270 and running with 3d vision, i was wondering if there was an ati solution for 3d gaming, after doing a little looking it seems that theres only third party drivers/hardware for this. is it any decent or should i save money for a new graphics card. Currently i am running with a radeon HD 4670, made by gigabyte with 1gb ddr3 ram, it runs all my current pc games with no problems and i dont feel like spending a lot of money if i dont have to.

No, I don't believe they do nor do I know if they plan on doing it. Also, you'd also have to take glasses and a 3d capable monitor into account. There's a user in these forums that runs 3dvision with a GTX 295, maybe he can answer questions about how it is, cost, ect if he views this thread.

It requires a lot of computer power though.

Yes they do have a 3d solution but it isn't worth it.  The iz3d driver can in fact turn ANY monitor to 3d using anaglyph (red/cyan).   It causes me eyestrain and headaches.  If you use the iz3d monitor which is about $350 us, then it looks better using the polarized stereoscpoic (keeps colors intact).

i guess it doesn't like my typing

I read that ATI will come up with their own 3D stuff later this year.

yea i heard that ati was gonna rely on third parties to take of their 3d and iz3d was gonna be one of the leaders.

@ghstlyflme was it a stereoscopic moniter? the old red and cyan was an eyestrain and i didnt mind the polarized, but from what ive experienced stereoscopic has the best depth.

ATI 3D solution so far is IZ3D. Its free to try so if you have a 3D monitor (Zlaman) you may as well give it a go. http://www.iz3d.com/

Its not as good as 3D vision but it uses polarized glasses so the glasses are dirt cheap. Its not bad by any means, you just don't get a sense that anyone is updating it or testing games with it. 

@IllegalPaladin

I think you meant me, as I was running a GTX295 and 3D vision  till 3 days ago. I have a GTX470 SLI going now :)

At the same time when I switched to the 470s, I set up a Acer 3D Vision projector and a 92 inch screen. The projector runs at 120 hz but is 720p...so my 3D performance went up by 100 %.

Prior to this I was using a 3D DLP which needed 1080p X 2 processing, but was only showing 720p to each eye (checkerboard) . Now with having 720p resolution shown to each eye, with 720p x2 video processing...I've realised that 1 GTX470 would have been enough.

Indeed I did.

@disolitude wow 2, lol

i was thinking about getting a new card when i get some extra money, i was looking at the gt240 but after looking at specs its hard to get one when i currently have the hd4670, if i got one do you think i would see a performance decrease?

You wouldn't see a performance decrease over 4670 if you picked up gt240, however you wouldn't see much of an increase.

And if you gave 3D gaming a try with either of those 2 cards, frame rates would make you cry...For 3D gaming you need a minimum of HD4870 of GTX260...and even with those things are hurting badly unless you play at 1366x768 resolution or lower.

I suggest looking for a used GTX200 card...users are dumping them in favor of the 400 series and I've seen GTX260s used for sale for 100 bucks.