I think the ability to see videos over the Internet is massive but in my thread about 3d stereo, don't think I received a single positive or negative response and find that puzzling. Think the quality is really there and to have windowed 3d stereo is neat and steps forward as 3d stereo is maturing.

What thread about stereo 3D?





Alan Wake never made it to PC; consolitis claimed what was to be a PC exclusive. Condemned: CI is a pretty good game; i never got into it and now it is on my "to play" list along with Jericho.

Nvidia better get it together about their claim of "525 games" validated for 3D Vision. There are a LOT of games that need to be pulled off of that list and a few added. Basically, 3D Vision starts to work well beginning approximately with year 2002.

I have a thread at rage3d, about 3d stereo technologies.

Stickied on top in this forum room:

http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=65

Alright, a positive response: Windowed S3D is a great step forward towards universal integration and compatibility!

But also a negative response: Most people don't game in windowed mode. Many games are not even compatible with windowed mode.

And your thread has like 3,000 replies!

Where the windowed mode makes sense was for online videos, Google Earth and online gaming to me.

That is quite a thread you started over there back in '08. i just tried my old PW and universal forum login, and i guess i am also a member of Rage3D.


. . . last visited Rage3D in 2001 ....

Did i miss anything while i was away?


At any rate, Nvidia's announcement about YouTube mostly fell on deaf ears here also
- there is SO MUCH IGNORANCE and FUD about S3D it isn't funny

(actually it IS funny)

use the movie camera icon in the full editor

Has anyone played DiRT 3 yet?

It is an even better looking game than DiRT 2 (if that is possible). The benchmark is set on a snow covered Aspen track and i am surprised that there are not a lot more accidents


If you just run it in 3D Vision with all the settings maxed out, you will get weird results and a bit of unease watching it. However, drop AA to 2x and turn Post Processing to Low and tweak a few settings and it looks pretty good in S3D. Better than with DiRT 2 which never quite looked right to me.

And it is a different-looking S3D than - for example - Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. With DiRT 3 it is though you are looking at your world inside of a (long) 'aquarium' where all of the action is confined in a 3D area; in LP, the difference is the snow particles seem to come out of the screen and surround the front of your field of vision. Both look good but i much prefer the LP-type implementation and in DiRT 3 the other cars in the background seem to all ride on a 2D plane when they get far away and it will spoil the effect for me.

BtW i managed to DL well over 35GB on my two "unmetered days"


It seems that DiRT 3 and Shogun TW both have a lot of patches from Steam. No sooner than i backed up the files than both started to update again (with significant patches of 500+MB each). i am not 100% sure the Steam back-up is working properly with Shogun. Try try again (and it is nearly 30 days till my next "free" D/L day).

Well, it would be a (recent) TW game if it didn't ship with more bugs than a flea riddled dog and need gigabytees worth of patches.

My issues were with Steam. i D/L everything to my notebook. Then i back up the files to an external HDD and finally i install from the HDD to my other two HDDs.

Well, even though Steam validated my Shogun 2 files and the game actually started on my notebook (everything 'low') and it played the opening cinematic, it couldn't back up more than 12 of 18GB. So i had to copy the installation (data) files from my notebook's HDD to my desktop. With a 50MB d/l it now appears to be working ..