2D performance in Fable 3 when driver service started
Following a tip in the infamous Witcher 2 thread, I tried disabling the 'NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver Service' while playing Fable 3 in standard 2D due to slightly stuttery performance. And guess what? It makes a difference: the game becomes smoother. It's not the framerate that changes, rather the fluidity of the game, reduced stutters etc. Anyone know why this would be the case? The monitor frequency remains the same, incidentally.

I really hope I am not going to have mess around stopping the 3D driver service for every game I wish to play in 2D. Surely even with the driver service started it shouldn't be impinging on 2D service? I know Witcher 2 is a recognised issue but is it the same for other games?

System specs: W7 64 bit, I7 930@3.52GHz, 6gb, 580 GTX.
Following a tip in the infamous Witcher 2 thread, I tried disabling the 'NVIDIA Stereoscopic 3D Driver Service' while playing Fable 3 in standard 2D due to slightly stuttery performance. And guess what? It makes a difference: the game becomes smoother. It's not the framerate that changes, rather the fluidity of the game, reduced stutters etc. Anyone know why this would be the case? The monitor frequency remains the same, incidentally.



I really hope I am not going to have mess around stopping the 3D driver service for every game I wish to play in 2D. Surely even with the driver service started it shouldn't be impinging on 2D service? I know Witcher 2 is a recognised issue but is it the same for other games?



System specs: W7 64 bit, I7 930@3.52GHz, 6gb, 580 GTX.

#1
Posted 06/04/2011 01:30 PM   
Alt+tab on fable 3 when you get stutters. ITs a bug and that fixes it, your comp shouldnt lag on Fable 3 at all, mine is slighly worse and runs it perfect, but i have to alt+tab when it stutters.
Alt+tab on fable 3 when you get stutters. ITs a bug and that fixes it, your comp shouldnt lag on Fable 3 at all, mine is slighly worse and runs it perfect, but i have to alt+tab when it stutters.

#2
Posted 06/04/2011 03:16 PM   
Thanks for the reply although that wasn't the performance issue I was referring to - alt+tab fixes that as you rightly say.

No, mine is related to overall smoothness.
Thanks for the reply although that wasn't the performance issue I was referring to - alt+tab fixes that as you rightly say.



No, mine is related to overall smoothness.

#3
Posted 06/05/2011 02:39 PM   
[quote name='womblingfree' date='05 June 2011 - 03:39 PM' timestamp='1307284775' post='1247700']
Thanks for the reply although that wasn't the performance issue I was referring to - alt+tab fixes that as you rightly say.

No, mine is related to overall smoothness.
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Is it not possible to set the 3D settings for each game to on/off in the profiles for them?
[quote name='womblingfree' date='05 June 2011 - 03:39 PM' timestamp='1307284775' post='1247700']

Thanks for the reply although that wasn't the performance issue I was referring to - alt+tab fixes that as you rightly say.



No, mine is related to overall smoothness.





Is it not possible to set the 3D settings for each game to on/off in the profiles for them?

#4
Posted 06/05/2011 05:45 PM   
Well, whether it is or not, that's not really the thrust of my question. Just seems odd that when playing in 2d, it appears to be affected by the 3d driver service being active; not dissimilar to Witcher 2 although [b]nowhere near[/b] as bad.
Well, whether it is or not, that's not really the thrust of my question. Just seems odd that when playing in 2d, it appears to be affected by the 3d driver service being active; not dissimilar to Witcher 2 although nowhere near as bad.

#5
Posted 06/06/2011 06:21 PM   
It's because you can turn 3D on and off on a whim by pressing the pyramids button, in order to do that the hardware has to be 'ready' for it, so it has to be 'on' but not necessarily seen otherwise you couldnt do that. The only way of fully disabling it is when you go to the Nvidia control panel and untick the checkbox, that should give normal performance. Its really not a particularly hard chore to do for games you want in 2D, although it would have been easier to just set all that once in the profile for each game, however apparently the profiles have all the global options but they have no profile specific option for 3D on/off =/ Maybe Nvidia should add that in.
It's because you can turn 3D on and off on a whim by pressing the pyramids button, in order to do that the hardware has to be 'ready' for it, so it has to be 'on' but not necessarily seen otherwise you couldnt do that. The only way of fully disabling it is when you go to the Nvidia control panel and untick the checkbox, that should give normal performance. Its really not a particularly hard chore to do for games you want in 2D, although it would have been easier to just set all that once in the profile for each game, however apparently the profiles have all the global options but they have no profile specific option for 3D on/off =/ Maybe Nvidia should add that in.

#6
Posted 06/07/2011 10:29 AM   
Wait are you on the new 275 driver? Its a few days old. I read somewhere that when you disable the checkbox in the Nvidia control panel it works like it should, but I think the 270 or 271 driver has an issue where you still get '3D' performance with the 3D unticked in the panel unless you remove the driver/service totally. Try the newest driver then the tickbox option as i said previously should work.

I think this is what you are looking for?
Wait are you on the new 275 driver? Its a few days old. I read somewhere that when you disable the checkbox in the Nvidia control panel it works like it should, but I think the 270 or 271 driver has an issue where you still get '3D' performance with the 3D unticked in the panel unless you remove the driver/service totally. Try the newest driver then the tickbox option as i said previously should work.



I think this is what you are looking for?

#7
Posted 06/07/2011 10:32 AM   
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