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Soleron on 02 February 2010
disolitude said:
Soleron said:
"Certified"? Surely all games work with it.

I suppose this is like Nvidia's "certified" power supplies for SLI. The PSU has no effect on SLI as long as it's good quality (obviously) but you can pay Nvidia $50, $100, $200 and they'll allow you to put "SLI certified" on it.

So Nvidia gets cash and a news story mentioning 3D Vision, and the developer gets a shiny Nvidia logo and a news story mentioning the game. Win all around, except for when the cost is passed on to the consumer.


lol, this is slightly different.

The nvidia certified 3D vision games will not have a single non 3D element to them. The games thmselves are designed with 3D vision in mind and the Nvidia 3D Driver is updated before the games release to work semlesly with it.

Other games whicha re not certified may have issues such as 2D crosshair or 2D grass and other non 3D elements.

Still, they could just say that it would work well with 3D Vision rather than getting it Certfied and paying the money. The whole TWIMTBP programme is unethical, just look at the Batman AA issue.



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Sharky54 on 02 February 2010

That is gigantic. Jesus. Why would anyone need a TV that big! Crap. there doesn't seem to be a way for me to get a 1920x1200 3D ready monitor yet huh? I want to be able to play in with a huge res AND 3d! :[ curse you tv makers. So theres no way to get 3D on a normal 60 hz monitor eh?



disolitude on 02 February 2010
Sharky54 said:
That is gigantic. Jesus. Why would anyone need a TV that big! Crap. there doesn't seem to be a way for me to get a 1920x1200 3D ready monitor yet huh? I want to be able to play in with a huge res AND 3d! :[ curse you tv makers. So theres no way to get 3D on a normal 60 hz monitor eh?

This is your only option if you want 1920x1200 - http://legitreviews.com/news/7290/

I don't know if its out.

Nay it wont work with 60 hz LCD monitors but it will work with some old 100 HZ CRT monitors. Some of them support 100 hz.

 



disolitude on 02 February 2010
Soleron said:
disolitude said:
Soleron said:
"Certified"? Surely all games work with it.

I suppose this is like Nvidia's "certified" power supplies for SLI. The PSU has no effect on SLI as long as it's good quality (obviously) but you can pay Nvidia $50, $100, $200 and they'll allow you to put "SLI certified" on it.

So Nvidia gets cash and a news story mentioning 3D Vision, and the developer gets a shiny Nvidia logo and a news story mentioning the game. Win all around, except for when the cost is passed on to the consumer.


lol, this is slightly different.

The nvidia certified 3D vision games will not have a single non 3D element to them. The games thmselves are designed with 3D vision in mind and the Nvidia 3D Driver is updated before the games release to work semlesly with it.

Other games whicha re not certified may have issues such as 2D crosshair or 2D grass and other non 3D elements.

Still, they could just say that it would work well with 3D Vision rather than getting it Certfied and paying the money. The whole TWIMTBP programme is unethical, just look at the Batman AA issue.


What was the Batman issue?



Soleron on 02 February 2010
disolitude said:
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What was the Batman issue?

When Batman AA detects an AMD video card (does so by firmware check alone) it disables all forms of in-game anti-aliasing. When the check is bypassed deliberately, the game runs perfectly fine on that AA mode. Essentially Nvidia paid them not to have in-game AA on AMD cards.



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Slimebeast on 02 February 2010

Great news. I love 3-D, I just haven't experienced it yet.

(when) Will ATI cards work with this?



Soleron on 03 February 2010
Slimebeast said:

Great news. I love 3-D, I just haven't experienced it yet.

(when) Will ATI cards work with this?

Never? They haven't even hinted at a 3D technology for games, only for Blu-ray.



Slimebeast on 03 February 2010
Soleron said:
Slimebeast said:

Great news. I love 3-D, I just haven't experienced it yet.

(when) Will ATI cards work with this?

Never? They haven't even hinted at a 3D technology for games, only for Blu-ray.

Well that sux. I don't understand why they don't. They're gonna miss an opportunity here.



Soleron on 03 February 2010
Slimebeast said:
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Well that sux. I don't understand why they don't. They're gonna miss an opportunity here.

No money in it. Out of all of the tech sites I've visited, I've seen more reviewers with the gear than users who say they own it.

If it becomes more popular it will be trivial to do. Sign up a glasses vendor and a monitor vendor and some driver work and they can do it in 6 months.



Slimebeast on 03 February 2010
Soleron said:
Slimebeast said:
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Well that sux. I don't understand why they don't. They're gonna miss an opportunity here.

No money in it. Out of all of the tech sites I've visited, I've seen more reviewers with the gear than users who say they own it.

If it becomes more popular it will be trivial to do. Sign up a glasses vendor and a monitor vendor and some driver work and they can do it in 6 months.

Yes, I guess it makes sense business-wise. But I don't have 6 months to spare.