Gaming has always been a passion of mine and I have played every type and variation of game out there, be it board, PC, console or D&D with my friends in high school. I have also dabbled a bit in the 3D gaming arena with the I73D monitor and it was very cool, but not quite ready for prime time. 3D, this is a term we have been hearing since the 1960's when cheesy paper glasses and mildly applicable 3D was introduced in movies and made things appear to be moving in your direction. In reality this entire concept is rather old, but technology is starting to catch up with the ideals of 3D and making it a viable application in the gaming world. The paper glasses have been replaced with some new cool plastic goggles and NVIDIA has incorporated the 3D aspect of gaming in these new goggles and their own drivers.
NVIDIA always known as a trend setter and major player in the VGA game has taken stereo 3D to the next level and bringing it into your home by way of your NVIDIA VGA card a new pair of glasses and IR box that will be known as the GeForce Stereoscopic 3D Vision. One thing NVIDIA has proved is that even if your company, take PhysX for example is failing, NVIDIA has the money and resources to take that idea and turn it into a profitable idea. This whole thing is not a new idea in any way shape or form, but what NVIDIA has done is to make it happen in a new and better way by integrating the 3D spectrum into their VGA platform. One thing that really stopped me dead in my tracks for a day or so was how to convey what my eyes see into a written form that people would be able to grasp, I hope you can translate my words into something that grabs your attention. Let's move forward and see what this is all about as we look at the various aspects of NVIDIA's new 3D Vision.
| Applicable Games | Stereoscopic Rating 1 = Excellent2 = Good 3 = Fair |
| 1701 A. D. | 1 |
| 1701 A. D. - The Sunken Dragon expansion pack | 1 |
| 3D Blitz | 2 |
| 3D Mr. Ball | 2 |
| 3D Pong | 1 |
Age of Empires 3 | 1 |
Age of Empires 3 ‐ Asian Dynasties | 1 |
| Age of Empires 3 - The War Chiefs | 1 |
| Age of Mythology | 2 |
| Age of Mythology | 2 |
| Age of Mythology - The Titans | 2 |
| Age of Mythology The Titan | 2 |
| Alien vs Predator 2 | 1 |
| Alone in the Dark | 2 |
| Alvin and the Chipmunks | 1 |
| ARMA - Combat Operations | 2 |
| Armed and Dangerous | 1 |
| Armies fo Exigo | 2 |
| Army Men RTS | 2 |
| Assassin's Creed | 1 |
| Assault Heroes | 2 |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | 1 |
| Avert Fate | 2 |
| Backyard Baseball 2005 | 1 |
| Bard's Tale, The | 2 |
| Battlefield 1942 | 3 |
| Battlefield 1942 The Road to Rome | 2 |
| Battlefield 2 | 1 |
| Battlefield 2142 | 2 |
| Battlefield 2142 | 2 |
| Battlefield Vietnam | 2 |
| Bee Movie - The Game | 1 |
| Beijing Olympics | 1 |
| Beowulf | 1 |
| Besieger | 2 |
| BioShock | 2 |
| Black and White 2 | 1 |
| Blacksite Area 51 | 2 |
| Blazing Angels 2 - Secret missions of WWII | 1 |
| Boarder Zone | 1 |
| Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 13 | 2 |
| Call of Duty 2 | 2 |
| Call of Duty 4 | 1 |
| Call of Duty World at War | 1 |
| Call of Juarez | 2 |
| Call of Juarez (DX10) | 1 |
| Cars Mater National | 1 |
| Castle Strike | 2 |
| Chrome | 3 |
| Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian | 1 |
| City Life 2008 Edition | 2 |
| Civilization 4 | 1 |
| Civilization 4 - Beyond the Sword | 1 |
| Club, The | 1 |
| Comanche 4 | 2 |
| Command and Conquer - Red Alert 3 | 2 |
| Command and Conquer 3 - Tiberium Wars | 1 |
| Company of Heroes | 1 |
| Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts | 1 |
| Conflict Global Terror | 2 |
| Crazy Machines 2 | 1 |
| Cricket 2005 | 1 |
| Crysis | 2 |
| Crysis Warhead | 2 |
| Crysis Wars | 2 |
| CSI: Hard Evidence | 2 |
| Dark Messiah of Might and Magic | 1 |
| Dark One | 1 |
| Dead Reefs | 1 |
| Dead Space | 3 |
| Devil May Cry 4 | 1 |
| Devil May Cry 4 (DX10) | 1 |
| Diplomacy | 2 |
| Dirt | 2 |
| Dirt Track Racing 2 | 1 |
| Dream Pinball 3D | 1 |
| DRIV3R | 1 |
| Driver Parallel Lines | 1 |
| Drome Racers | 2 |
| Ducati World Championship | 1 |
| Dungeon Runners | 1 |
| Earth 2160 | 2 |
| Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind | 2 |
| Empire Earth II | 2 |
| Empire Earth III | 1 |
| Enter the Matrix | 1 |
| Eragon | 1 |
| Evolva | 2 |
| Experiment, The | 1 |
F.E.A.R. | 1 |
| F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate | 1 |
| Fable - The Lost Chapters | 1 |
| Fallout 3 | 1 |
| Fantasy Wars | 3 |
| Fantasy Wars | 3 |
| Far Cry | 1 |
| Far Cry 2 | 1 |
| FIFA 04 | 2 |
| FIFA 05 | 2 |
| FIFA 06 | 1 |
| FIFA 07 | 1 |
| FIFA 08 | 1 |
| FIFA 09 | 3 |
| FlatOut | 1 |
| Flight Sim X - Microsoft | 1 |
| Flyboys Squadron | 2 |
| Ford Offroad Racing | 3 |
| Ford Street Racing | 2 |
| Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich | 2 |
| Freelancer | 2 |
| Frontlines Fuel of War | 1 |
| Fury | 2 |
| Gears of War | 1 |
| Ghost Recon | 2 |
| Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter | 3 |
| Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 | 3 |
| Godfather, The | 2 |
| Gods LOI | 2 |
| Golden Compass, The | 2 |
| Gothic 2 | 2 |
| Gothic 3 | 2 |
| Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | 2 |
| Ground Control 2 - Operation Exodus | 2 |
| GTI Racer | 2 |
| GTR 2 | 1 |
| Guild Wars | 2 |
| Guild Wars - Eye of the North | 2 |
| Guitar Hero 3 | 1 |
| Guitar Hero Aerosmith | 1 |
| Gun | 1 |
| Half-Life 2 | 2 |
| Half-Life 2 - Episode 1 | 2 |
| Half-Life 2 - Episode 2 | 1 |
| Half-Life 2 - Portal | 1 |
| Half-Life 2 - Team Fortress 2 | 1 |
| Halo 2 | 2 |
| Halo Combat Evolved | 2 |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2 |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 1 |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 1 |
| Hellgate London | 2 |
| Heroes of Might and Magic 5 | 1 |
| Hidden & Dangerous 2 | 2 |
| High Heat Baseball 2004 | 1 |
| Hitman: Blood Money | 2 |
| Hot Wheels Beat That | 1 |
| Hyborian Adventures - Age of Conan | 5 |
| Imperium Romanum | 1 |
| Impossible Creatures | 1 |
| Incredible Hulk | 1 |
| Incredibles, The | 1 |
| Independence War 2: The Edge of Chaos | 2 |
| iRacing | 1 |
| Ironman | 2 |
| Jack Keane | 1 |
| Jericho - Clive Barker's | 1 |
| Kane and Lynch - Dead Men | 2 |
| Kohan II: Kings of War | 2 |
| LA Street Racing | 1 |
| Left 4 Dead | 1 |
| Lego Indiana Jones | 1 |
| Lemony Snickets SUE | 1 |
| Lock on - Modern Air Combat | 2 |
| Loki | 1 |
| Lord of the Rings Battle For Middle Earth | 1 |
| Lord of the Rings Battle For Middle Earth II | 1 |
| Lord of the Rings Return of the King | 1 |
| Lost Planet Extreme Condition | 2 |
| Lost Planet Extreme Condition Colonies | 2 |
| Lost Planet Extreme Condition Europe Edition | 2 |
| LOST Via Domus | 1 |
| Madden NFL 2006 | 2 |
| Madden NFL 2007 | 1 |
| Madden NFL 2008 | 1 |
| Maelstrom | 2 |
| Mafia | 1 |
| Mage Knight Apocalypse | 1 |
| Mage Night - Apocalypse | 3 |
| Manhunt | 1 |
| Mass Effect | 1 |
| Max Payne 2 The Fall of Max Payne | 2 |
| Medal of Honor - Pacific Assault | 2 |
| Medal of Honor Airborne | 1 |
| Medieval 2 - Total War | 1 |
| Meet the Robinsons | 1 |
| Men of Valor: Vietnam | 2 |
| Mercenaries 2 | 2 |
| Micro Machines | 3 |
| Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 | 2 |
| Microsoft Train Simulator | 2 |
| Midnight Club II | 2 |
| Mini Golf Adventures | 2 |
| Mirror's Edge | 1 |
| Monster Jam | 1 |
| Monster Madness - Battle for Suburbia | 1 |
| Motocross Madness 2 | 1 |
| MotoGP 3: Ultimate Racing Technology | 1 |
| Mount and Blade | 1 |
| MVP Baseball 2003 | 2 |
| MVP Baseball 2004 | 2 |
| MVP Baseball 2005 | 2 |
| MX vs ATV Unleashed | 2 |
| NASCAR SimRacing | 2 |
| NBA Live 08 | 1 |
| NBA Live 2004 | 2 |
| NBA Live 2005 | 1 |
| NBA Live 2006 | 1 |
| Need for Speed Carbon | 1 |
| Need for Speed Pro Street | 1 |
| Need for Speed Underground 2 | 2 |
| NHL 07 | 2 |
| NHL 08 | 1 |
| NHL 09 | 1 |
| NHL 2005 | 1 |
| NHL 2006 | 1 |
| No Man's Land | 2 |
| No One Lives Forever 2 | 2 |
| Oblivion | 2 |
| Oblivion - The Shivering Isles Expansion Pack | 2 |
| Obscure | 2 |
| Painkiller | 1 |
| Painkiller Overdose | 1 |
| Paradise Cracked | 2 |
| Perimeter | 2 |
| Phantasy Star Universe | 2 |
| Pirates of the Caribbean - At Worlds End | 2 |
| Polar Express, The | 1 |
| Prince of Persia - The Sands of Time | 1 |
| Prince of Persia - Warrior Within | 2 |
| Psychonauts | 1 |
| Pure | 1 |
| Race 07 | 1 |
| Race Driver Grid | 1 |
| Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 | 2 |
| Real Flight | 1 |
| Red Baron Arcade | 3 |
| Red Faction 2 | 2 |
| Renegade Paintball | 2 |
| rFactor | 1 |
| Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War | 1 |
| Rogue Trooper | 1 |
| Roller Coaster Tycoon | 1 |
| Rome | 2 |
| Roogoo | 2 |
| Sam and Max - Season One | 2 |
| Sega Rally Revo | 1 |
| Serious Sam 2 | 1 |
| Settlers, The - Rise of an Empire | 2 |
| Shrek 2 | 2 |
| Silverfall | 2 |
| Simpsons Hit and Run | 2 |
| Sniper Art of Victory | 2 |
| Soldier of Fortune Payback | 2 |
| Space Siege | 1 |
| Spellforce - The Order of Dawn | 2 |
| Spellforce 2 Shadow Wards | 1 |
| Spiderman 3 | 1 |
| Spiderwick Chronicles | 1 |
| Spore | 1 |
| Spore Creature Creator | 1 |
| STALKER - Clear Sky | 1 |
| STALKER - Shadow of Chernobyl | 1 |
| Star Wars - Empire at War | 2 |
| Star Wars: Battlefront | 2 |
| Star Wars: Battlefront 2 | 1 |
| Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic | 1 |
| Star Wars: Republic Commando | 1 |
| Stranglehold(John Woo's) | 1 |
| Sudden Strike 3 | 2 |
| Supreme Commander | 1 |
| Supreme Commander - Forged Alliance | 3 |
| Surf's Up | 1 |
| Switchball | 1 |
| Sword of the New World | 1 |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 1 |
| Terminator 3 | 2 |
| Test Drive Unlimited | 1 |
| Tiger Woods 2007 | 1 |
| Tiger Woods 2008 | 1 |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 | 2 |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2006 | 2 |
| Time Shift Sunrise | 2 |
| TimeShift | 1 |
| Titan Quest | 1 |
| Tomb Raider - Anniversary | 1 |
Tomb Raider ‐ Legend | 1 |
| Tony Hawk Underground 2 | 1 |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 | 1 |
| Topspin | 1 |
| Torino 2006 | 1 |
| Total Overdose | 2 |
| Turning Point Fall of Liberty | 2 |
| Turok | 1 |
| Two Worlds | 1 |
| Universal Combat | 1 |
| Unreal II - The Awakening | 2 |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 | 1 |
| Unreal Tournament III | 1 |
| Vampires The Masquerade -Bloodlines | 1 |
| Vanguard | 2 |
| Wall-E | 2 |
| Warcraft III Frozen Throne | 2 |
| Warcraft III Reign of Chaos | 2 |
| Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War | 2 |
| Winning Eleven 7 | 1 |
| Witcher, The | 2 |
| Wolverine's Revenge | 1 |
| World in Conflict | 2 |
| World of Warcraft | 1 |
| World of Warcraft Burning Crusade | 1 |
| World of Warcraft Lich King | 1 |
| X Men the Legends 2 | 1 |
The 3D effect is immediately noticeable when the hardware is engaged and shutting off the glasses is a rather sobering experience after being immersed in the 3D world of gaming. We only tried about ten of the titles that NVIDIA has on their list of titles supported, and a few that were not and the results were either out of this world or not really functioning right in the game. The two best games we played for the FPS were Left 4 Dead and COD WAW, and Grid. Mass Effect a game NVIDIA says played excellent did not function so. Age OF Empires 3 was the only RTS game that I thought played well.
Command and Conquer of any variety as well as the Warhammer 40,000 series looked blurry and unplayable with 3D now engaged. When the 3D vision works it works very well and in the games that we played when it did, I was very impressed beyond what I expected. The games do get a little darker in some cases when the 3D vision is turned on, but it's nothing critical to the gameplay experience. I would suggest playing in a room with very low fluorescent lighting 40w or less as the ambient room light does affect the way the screen is viewed and I enjoyed the game immersion more than in a highly lighted room. Overall I think this is a great thing that is really even more fun when combined with a big screen LCD TV, me and my friends had a blast racing on my new Samsung 46'' 120Hz Flat screen, and in truth it was pricey so much so that I had to sell a couple of my guitars to get the cash, but it was most assuredly great to be able to play these new 3D Vision enhanced games on a giant playing field.
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