3d glasses

[james]

I have a new rig and I'm wondering if 3d glasses would be worth
using. It's a quad core 2.8 with 12 gb of ddr3. The graphics card is an
nvidia 9600 overclocked edition with 512mb of ram on it. The
monitor is an acer flatscreen 24" with a 2.5 ms refresh rate.
The monitor goes to 60fps in the game and the lowest I've seen
is around 55 but steady. I have tried searching but most of the posts
have to do with vista or xp. I'm running win7 64 bit home.
If anyone has any pros and cons please post back? Also if
they are worth getting could you recommend which would work
well?

[Jayhawk]

Well that depends on a couple things, are you wanting to do the full Nvidia 3D vision or just the red/cyan glasses?  If you're doing the full 3D thing, you have to buy the special unit and have a 120Hz monitor.  

However you can just download the correct drivers and run stereoscopic 3d with some glasses.  It works in AH, but doesn't really add much, it really messes with color and can make it difficult.  But I went on Amazon and bought a pair of the glasses for $10 just for the heck of it.  It's fun, but I won't use it in MA play.

I think the $10 glasses are worth a little amusement you get out of it.

I have something like this:
http://www.amazon.com/ProX-3D-Glasses-Movies-Gaming/dp/B002T0D81C/ref=pd_sbs_misc_1

[Vulcan]

However you can just download the correct drivers and run stereoscopic 3d with some glasses.

Not true, anything from an Nvidia 8xxx series on only supports 3D Vision. The generic 3D Stereo nvidia used to do stopped at the 7 series cards.

[Jayhawk]

The terminology is all confusing to me, I have a GeForce 9800 GT and just do the red/cyan 3D glasses.

Here's the compatibility list.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Requirements.html

[100Coogn]

I would just get the red/cyan glasses, as mentioned before.  That's what I did.  See if you like it, before you drop the cash for the shutter glasses and all.  I like how the cock-pit looks, but the there are some issues.  Example: Icon over plane, looks fubar'd.  Cross-hairs are a joke.  Mouse pointer stands out way too much.
JMHO.

[james]

I'll try the red/ cyans first. Ran the 3d ready test and all
of that came out ok. Just gotta get my hands on some glasses.
Thanks for the input on this stuff. I can do stuff like change
ram, vid cards, power supplies. It's the different specs on
monitors and 3d stuff that gets me all over the road.

[Vulcan]

I used to run AH on my headset in 3D, damn it was beautiful. Fighting close fights in 3D is a totally different experience.

[jimson]

I used to run AH on my headset in 3D, damn it was beautiful. Fighting close fights in 3D is a totally different experience.

Did you stop? why?

[guncrasher]

hard to get a kill using 3d.  view inside the plane was awesome, but outside everything was blurry, hard to tell friend from foe, from tree.

semp

[Vulcan]

Did you stop? why?

Nvidia stopped supporting 'generic' 3D after the 7 series cards (though some early 8 series apparently do support it). About 6 months ago I got a free GTX285 card which blew the pants off my 7600GT in speed. I am actually considering buying a late 7 series card just for the stereo 3D. I tried flying the 109 recently and found I just could get it right without the depth.