Sapphire Shows off 3D Gaming With Eyefinity
Sapphire Shows off 3D Gaming With Eyefinity
Posted 06/27/2010 at 9:01am
| by Justin Kerr
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Nvidia has been promising 3D surround gaming for as long as we can remember, but it looks as though Sapphire is going to beat them to market with a home grown ATI based solution. Using a combination of Eyefinity and 3D drivers from iZ3d, the company was able to showcase a working three monitor configuration running games such as Tom Clancy's Hawx, Left for Dead 2, Battle Forge, and even Dirt 2.
"This technology demonstrates that games and applications can be displayed in 3D on multiple screens, and run smoothly, without the need for multiple graphics cards or expensive shutter glasses," said Bill Donnelly, Global PR Director for Sapphire. "This approach uses low cost glasses, and can be run on any system with an ATI-based Sapphire graphics card that has ATI Eyefinity support."
We expect to see more details emerge in the days ahead for the DIY crowd, but you'll still need 120hz monitors to give this a try. Either way this news can't be sitting well with Nvidia's driver team.
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gliscameria
June 28, 2010 at 11:05am
Can someone please say they remember these things back in the days when computer shows were big and using them on their 3Dfx Voodoo card? 'Early' adopters deserve to be bent over and mounted for buying into this stuff now.
I think people have pretty much forgotten about trackballs, maybe someone should start selling $200 uber /337 gaming upside down mice.
//Glis
JohnP
June 27, 2010 at 2:37pm
Using the red/cyan glasses, I can run most games as 3D using either a Nvidia or ATI card (you turn it on in the control center menus for both). World of Warcraft is a good example.
Is it neat looking? Yes. Is it all all useful? No. Are the colors screwed up some and the picture dimmer? Yes. Does wearing the glasses a long time bother my eyes? You bet!
So go order some Hanna Montana glasses in Amazon and try it out for yourself.
Danthrax66
June 27, 2010 at 1:21pm
Drivers that independent card manufacturers release rarely work correctly I would wait for either ati or nvidia backed drivers for multi-screen 3-d.
PawBear
June 27, 2010 at 1:14pm
MPC, it appears 3D gaming is going to become a reality. Because I'm going to have to eventually adapt hardware and such to take full advantage of it, I hope you'll establish a 3D subset in your gaming coverage to make it easier for us.
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