Okay... Getting 3D to work has been no easy task; and while several supposedly promising solutions turned up in the forums, none of them seem to work for me... So here I am, with my annoying first-world problem, please hear me out...
The Sony Playstation 3D 24" Monitor was on for $99.99 at Bestbuy last Christmas, so I bought one for the hell of it. Up till this point, I've been using it in conjunction with an AMD Radeon HD 6870 + TriDef 3D. It worked fine, framerates were not great, but it worked. Recently though, I sold the HD 6870 and bought myself a nice Asus GTX 650 Ti BOOST Direct CU 2GB. Initially I decided to go nVidia because it had better native support for stereoscopic 3D. However I did not realize just how incompatible the Sony 3D display was, and I've been trying to get the 3D to work for hours.
I saw a work-around driver that supposedly enabled the GPU accerated 3D with 720p at 60hz or 1080p at 24hz. The driver was also designed specifically to work for this exact Sony display. Unfortunately the work-around driver doesn't support the latest nVidia driver. Coming to the conclusion that native 3D was not gonna happen, I decided to go with the software accelerated route again.
I looked into TriDef, and it supposedly supported nVidia cards. After playing around with it though, I've come to discover that the only reason I was able to get 3D content is because TriDef had an "AMD HD3D" option in its control panel. The Sony 24" Display is not in its compatibility list, and I've hit another dead end. I actually went out of my way and tried EVERY monitor listed in the control panel. Some of them would split the screen into two and activate the glasses, some of them would display the stereoscopic on screen but the glasses won't activate, and some of them would display stereoscopic, and activate the glasses, but they don't mix to provide 3D results.
So I'm stuck. Both methods have yielded no results, and I'm at a loss. Did I have the settings mixed up somewhere? Do I need to play around with the refreshrate some more? I refuse to believe that my combination of hardware-- nVidia 6 Series on the Sony Playstation 3D display, is a rare combination. So if anyone can help shed some light on the situation, it would be greatly appreciated!
The Sony Playstation 3D 24" Monitor was on for $99.99 at Bestbuy last Christmas, so I bought one for the hell of it. Up till this point, I've been using it in conjunction with an AMD Radeon HD 6870 + TriDef 3D. It worked fine, framerates were not great, but it worked. Recently though, I sold the HD 6870 and bought myself a nice Asus GTX 650 Ti BOOST Direct CU 2GB. Initially I decided to go nVidia because it had better native support for stereoscopic 3D. However I did not realize just how incompatible the Sony 3D display was, and I've been trying to get the 3D to work for hours.
I saw a work-around driver that supposedly enabled the GPU accerated 3D with 720p at 60hz or 1080p at 24hz. The driver was also designed specifically to work for this exact Sony display. Unfortunately the work-around driver doesn't support the latest nVidia driver. Coming to the conclusion that native 3D was not gonna happen, I decided to go with the software accelerated route again.
I looked into TriDef, and it supposedly supported nVidia cards. After playing around with it though, I've come to discover that the only reason I was able to get 3D content is because TriDef had an "AMD HD3D" option in its control panel. The Sony 24" Display is not in its compatibility list, and I've hit another dead end. I actually went out of my way and tried EVERY monitor listed in the control panel. Some of them would split the screen into two and activate the glasses, some of them would display the stereoscopic on screen but the glasses won't activate, and some of them would display stereoscopic, and activate the glasses, but they don't mix to provide 3D results.
So I'm stuck. Both methods have yielded no results, and I'm at a loss. Did I have the settings mixed up somewhere? Do I need to play around with the refreshrate some more? I refuse to believe that my combination of hardware-- nVidia 6 Series on the Sony Playstation 3D display, is a rare combination. So if anyone can help shed some light on the situation, it would be greatly appreciated!
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