ATI 3D Anaglyph Drivers (Red/Blue glasses) in here

[Nate--IRL--]

Works very well, a real sense of depth to the DCS world, but requires a beast of a computer to run smoothly in dense areas. Nvidia have this built into their drivers, now ATI users can experience it too.

 

http://www.iz3d.com/driver

 

Nate

[ddahlstrom]

I downloaded and installed these last night, and made a comparison with the nVidia drivers. I found no issues having both these and the nVidia drivers installed side-by-side, as long as they are not bot active at the same time.

 

I haven't actually measured frame rate yet, but the iz3d drivers actually felt more performant than the nVidia drivers. This was a surprise since I figured that nVidia might have an advantage being so close to the hardware. But both work very smooth at 1680 x 1050 on my 8800GTS512 (without the stereoscopic effects turned on, I normally use 1920x1200). For anaglyph glasses use, the iz3d driver seems to have more and better options than the nVidia Discover driver. One nice thing is the ability to choose among multiple types of colored glasses, not just red/cyan. In fact, there are two choices for red/cyan, one is the default, the other is "optimized". When viewing with my nVidia Discover Anaglyph glasses (red/cyan), the default setting looked at first similar to the nVidia driver, but then I noticed that the HUD was completely invisible to the left eye as well as parts of the ABRIS. This was not going to work. However, when using the "optimized" red/cyan view, things were greatly improved. The view is significantly brighter, I could now see the HUD out of both eyes, and overall color was much better; much better than the nVidia drivers in fact. Greens in the landscape were green, and blues lost their shimmer, and were thus much cleaner. I really, really liked this mode, but alas! there was some pretty serious ghosting going on. I tried with another pair of darker glasses, which got rid of some of the ghosting, but it also dampened the color as well. Anyway, going the anaglyph route always involves a tug of war between color fidelity, ghosting, and glasses. These new drivers least provide a way of seeing another option.

 

I have a suspicion that I will probably end up sticking with the nVidia driver since, despite the more muted colors, the display is quite bright with virtually no ghosting. With that said, these iz3d drivers are very welcome, especially for ATI users. They seem to be easily as fast as the nVidia drivers and provide some nice options.

[PeterP]

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Update !

iZ3DDriverSetup.1.10b3 (1.09.0034) is working with DCS 1.1.1.1 64Bit !

Tested with AMD catalyst 12.1

 

(The newest IZ3D 1.12 is not working)

 

 

AA setting in game will not work - you will have to force AA settings with the CCC.

Download iZ3DDriverSetup.1.10b3.exe

[JaBoG32_Prinzartus]

... but requires a beast of a computer to run smoothly in dense areas. ...

 

Nate

 

What is you personal(!) definition of "beast of a computer" for this context? Am I out - with my spex?

[PeterP]

Please look at the Date of Nates post.... >>> 11-05-2009

 

No big problem for modern GPUs any more.

 

I just bumped that thread because I found a driver that works with the 64bit version. (Fixes the Green screen at start-up of DCS)

Try and see yourself :).

Edited April 27, 2012 by PeterP

[JaBoG32_Prinzartus]

Oh, Oh, ooooold. Did not notice that.

Well,I am going to find some Red/Green glasses, then.

 

Guess it's time for 3d movie at the cinema again. *g*

[PeterP]

Good look finding a cinema that still uses anaglyph glasses - they use poly-filter now!!!!:D (seems you where a long time not in contact with the outer world ;))

 

 

Better go to the next optician and as him for some!

Best colour reproduction(but some ghosting): Cyan/amber

 

But red/blue is also OK.