Trainz in 3D

[boat]

Hi,

I'm about to buy a new monitor and see that Passive 3D monitors are now reasonable in price.

I'm running a GTX 660 card so the obvious thing would be an 'Nvidea 3D Vision Optimised' monitor... exept there only appears to be 2 sorts in their 'passive' range... and one of those is too big for me.

I'm therefore considering an LG Passive monitor which comes with Tridef 3D software instead.

Has anyone tried running Trainz in 'virtual' 3D using either 3D Vision or Tridef on a passive monitor? Which is best?

Comments appreciated,

Boat, (Mike)

 

[William0d0]

I would think that because passive 3d only sends half the resolution to each eye that it would be a poor choice for playing games.

Active 3d seems like a better choice, since each eye gets the whole picture.

 

[boat]

I would think that because passive 3d only sends half the resolution to each eye that it would be a poor choice for playing games.

Active 3d seems like a better choice, since each eye gets the whole picture.

Hi William,

Yes, there are good points and bad points about both Passive and Active 3D. However, for reasons I won't bore you with, I have decided to go for the Passive system.

Both 3D vision and Tridef will work with both passive and active systems. Nvidea's 3D Vision is more dedicated to active shutter but they do offer 2 'optimized' passive monitor suggestions. Tridef is a 3rd party software that comes with an LG passive 3d monitor.

My problem is that my card is Nvidea so that would make (passive) 3D Vision an easy option, where it not for the poor selection of optimized monitors. 3D Vision specifies that Trainz is 'excellent' with their system. Tridef doesn't mention Trainz.....

So I'm really after someone who has used Trainz in 'virtual' 3D with Tridef. If I can find good reports for that, then I'll go the LG Tridef route and not 3D Vision's Acer suggestion.

Anyone out there who's been there?

Ta

Boat

 

[Mimes]

Hi Boat,

I run three LG D2542P. They are out of this world awesome, Trainz just would not be the same on a standard monitor. They were excellent price. Yes, you do lose some res but I stop noticing that a few seconds after start of the session. Passive monitors require 1/2 the power to run in 3D, i.e. I can run 3D on older PCs no problems. I believe you will never want to play Trainz in 2D once you play in 3D. My wife does not care about PCs or monitors and considers Trainz her competition for my time with her , but when I got the first monitor and got her to see Trainz in 3D, all she could say was wow. Then she let me to replace my other 2 CRT monitors with 25" LG D2542Ps. Plan to take holidays or suffer sleepless nights, 3D Trainz is so good. Need to run TS2009 min as 2006 is nowhere near as good in 3D as 2009 and up. I believe 23" is smallish for games, on 27" 3D interlacing shows up much more, so 25" appears to be the optimum screen size.

LG D2542P is shipped world wide with incorrect 3D glasses. If you go for one, budget for foldable Zalman 3D Passive Glasses ZM-SG100G. You can pickup a pair for about $20 on Ebay from time to time.

"RealD Glasses don't work, you have more ghosting and purple Ghosts. That's because the Filters in the Glasses are in different rotations. RealD have 0° left and 0° right, the LG Glasses for small TFTs have 145° / 145° (same as Zalman TFTs), that's why RealD Glasses are not compatible with LG small 3D monitors. But its not that easy... bigger LG Cinema 3D TVs have RealD like Glasses, so LG Glasses for bigger LG 3D TVs not working on smaller LG 3D TFTs. That's while small Panels use 145°/145° and bigger Panels use 0°/0°."



Here is a Web link to the discussion:
http://www.tridef.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1471


Here is a link to the relevant photos:

http://www.tridef.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1471&start=30

With LG supplied glasses, sometimes there is purple ghosting on some scenes, it does go away if you tilt your head 45° to the left, gets twice as bad if you tilt your head 45° to the right. Fixable with fine tuning with Alt Shift "[" or "]" and Alt Shift "," "." (without the quotes).



Regards, Mimes

 

[mcguirel]

I have the 660GTX Superclocked using a trial of Nvidia 3dTV. It is connected to a 42 Inch Visio 3DTV that is supported by the software. If I could only figure out how to do custom resolutions like 1080 @ 24hz it suppose to work. Make sure your chipset can handle this card. Unfortunately I have a Core2Duo with P41 Chipset therefore I am now where near getting the performance I should out of the card. When I am able and get other financial stuff in order, I am going to go back to AMD8350 4GHZ Eight Core with the 990 Chipset. Then this card will scream.