Quick Hack Allows True 3D in L4D (And Some Other Games)
Posted 02/07/09 at 01:44:25 AM by Nathan Grayson
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If Dead Rising taught us anything, it’s that donning goofy apparel is par for the course during a potential zombpocalypse. So, of course, as mindless slaves to our media (though not quite “zombies”), we’re thrilled that it’s finally kosher to sport a pair of multi-colored shades while doing our civic, undead-slaughtering duties.
Oh, we guess you also get “true 3D” out of the whole deal or whatever, but it’s not like anyone else benefits from your newfound sight beyond sight. Only you, you self-serving greed-pig.
So here. Here are your dumb means to achieve your selfish ends. After all, it’s not like we’re bitter because the hack won’t work on our PC. No. You’re just a terrible person. Never forget that.
NVidia's not very good about
Submitted by KaylaKaze on Sun, 02/08/2009 - 6:13am
NVidia's not very good about keeping their stereo drivers up to date. Your best course of action would be to use IZ3D's monitor drivers which, not only have analglyph mode that works on regular monitors, but has a color adjustment setting so you can play the game in B&W for best 3D performance or in "Best Colors" mode which shift's the game's pallette to colors more compatible with anaglyph glasses.
Submitted by The Prax on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 10:07pm
I downloaded all of the stuff for XP and executed the hack, but when I go to the nVidia control panel to "enable the stereoscopic settings in the stereo tab" I can't find a stereo tab. Am I in the wrong control panel?
Submitted by willenbrechtal on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 2:05pm
For all you Myopic brethren:
http://www.rainbowsymphony.com/cliponbig.html
Submitted by Vegan on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 11:49am
It's too bad it uses the red & blue tinted glasses. Colors must look pretty odd.
Submitted by Zoomer on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 10:28pm
The colors are very odd...much darker, and not much variation. I wouldn't reccomend using this hack in TF2, 'cause you can't tell the teams apart due to the colors. It's also VERY dissorienting going through the Blood Harvest Finale, as the cornstalks really stand out...as do many objects. Overall, not worth it.
Not sure how much better the "official" Nvidia setup is. Any here who have tried it?
Submitted by grumblemaster on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 10:32am
Yeah, but what about people who wear glasses? Dis sum ol' bo-plop. Accursed VG overlords never thinking about their near/far-sighted brethren. This is an outrage. I'm boycotting all video games ever. </sarcasm>
but seriously, they look really uncomfortable.
Submitted by AndyYankee17 on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 6:57am
this 3D technology is cool, so far I think that nvideas solution would work the best, except it requires an expensive 120 hz monitor and expensive glasses, and an nvidea video card (which I have never owned one bfore in mylife, not b/c I'm a fanboy, b/c I'm cheap and have purchased like 2 v/c in my life).
ATI needs to add support for this somehow, probably a ton of licensing issues, and only require a standard monitor, (i will take a 60 hz 30 FPS)
It doesn't work because
Submitted by dankers on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 6:53am
It doesn't work because everyone at MPC runs XP, or some other reason?
that's not true... there are
Submitted by johnny3144 on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 8:46am
that's not true...
there are many here like myself that run vista, and frankly... love it
P.S: it does work with XP, just not 64bit
Submitted by dankers on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 3:55pm
Thanks for clearing that up Johnny. I had always wondered because all the screenshots I see on MPC have that ugly blue taskbar at the bottom.
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