Stereoscopic drivers?

[xp3nd4bl3]

This was the closest forum I could thing of to ask this.

I remember years and years ago I bought some 3D shutterglasses and played classic Quake in 3D. I thought that was rad. I remember reading in more recent years nVidia building that functionality into their drivers. Is that still going on? Can I pick up a set of shutter glasses right now and try my games in 3D again? Does anybody still do this?

Thanks!

 

[Red Falcon]

By shutter glasses, do you mean those old school plastic/cardboard glasses with a red shade and a blue shade? I hope not.

I've only heard of this on very old games, like ones from the 80's on the Atari 2600. Like Rad Racer in psuedo-3D.

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I just did some looking around and http://www.dansdata.com/images/v8200d/specs400.jpgthese are what I found. Are these what you are talking about?


EDIT: I don't think this function is around anymore. I could be wrong, but these things are on a GeForce3, so I seriously doubt it; http://www.dansdata.com/v8200d.htm.

BTW, who says "rad" anymore? That's like "radical", an old 80's term... ah, memories!
Um, yeah, your best bet is eBay.

 

[dderidex]

The current state-of-the-art in this tech is eDimensional's stereo glasses.

They even come wireless, now! And they work with both ATI and nVidia cards - although nVidia has built the 3d support into the driver, so works better with them*. Also note that it doesn't even require a CRT any more - the glasses can work with LCD monitors.

(And to the other poster - have you gamed in 3d? It's easy to play around with using the red/blue glasses, as the nVidia driver supports those, too. Granted, the red/blue thing makes it largely a novelty effect - I can't imagine spending a LOT of time doing that - but it really is amazing. Makes your monitor look like a glass window, with the 3d world stretching to infinity behind it. With well designed flight sims, it can be particularly breathtaking, as looking out your 'window' really looks like a 10,000 foot drop.)

Caveat that you usually really want to match the stereo 3d driver to the same WHQL driver. IE., the latest stereo 3d from nVidia is 91.31, so you'd want to pair that with the WHQL driver closest to the 91.31s. If you are cool with betas, then most of the 'driver leak sites' do also have leaked newer releases of the stereo 3d drivers, too.

 

[Nenu]

I'll pretty much go with dderidex.

I have the E-Dimensional wireless glasses and they are excellent fun with the right hardware.
You need an Nvidia card, ATI's support isnt up to much.
The Nvidia drivers are very good, allowing you a fair bit of freedom to set the driver up to suit your eyes.
Staying at the same resolution you will get roughly half the framerate so a 7900GT/GS or higher is recommended. You may have to compromise on your AA setting to keep the framerate up.
You need to turn the brightness up a bit as the glasses shutter effect makes the picture a little darker.

Its worth getting 2 pairs of glasses otherwise your mates will get bored watching you.
Also, get at least 1 pair of wired glasses as you'll not want to use it after a while when the cost of batteries becomes annoying.
I ended up fitting a mains transformer to one of my wireless glasses.

I'm using a CRT so havent any experience with the LCD version glasses.
They were damn good fun though and do just what it says on the tin.
Sadly I have an ATI card at the moment so the glasses arent much use, roll on the 65nM GTX !