3D Vision Discover not working on laptops
I have a Dell Inspiron 7720 with Full HD, non-3d screen. I decided to take this screen, because I didn't need 3D and did prefer the matte display. And I thought I could always attach a 3D television later. Only after a lot of searching on several forums I found out that it will not be possible to attach a 3D screen, because the laptop uses Optimus technology. This wasn't made clear anywhere; neither on the Dell nor on the nVidia websites. To add insult to injury, the nvidia drivers do not enable 3D Vision Discover, which would at least give me simple anaglyph 3D, on any laptops at all. There is no technical reason to not enable this as there is no minimum refresh rate requirement on the screens to get the effect and apparently it works on desktops. So the only reason for this choice is a commercial one; to entice people to invest in a full fledged 3D laptop. For me it will have the opposite effect; my next laptop/tablet will not have an nvidia chip in it, unless they show a more reasonable attitude to costumer support.
I have a Dell Inspiron 7720 with Full HD, non-3d screen. I decided to take this screen, because I didn't need 3D and did prefer the matte display. And I thought I could always attach a 3D television later.

Only after a lot of searching on several forums I found out that it will not be possible to attach a 3D screen, because the laptop uses Optimus technology. This wasn't made clear anywhere; neither on the Dell nor on the nVidia websites.

To add insult to injury, the nvidia drivers do not enable 3D Vision Discover, which would at least give me simple anaglyph 3D, on any laptops at all. There is no technical reason to not enable this as there is no minimum refresh rate requirement on the screens to get the effect and apparently it works on desktops. So the only reason for this choice is a commercial one; to entice people to invest in a full fledged 3D laptop.

For me it will have the opposite effect; my next laptop/tablet will not have an nvidia chip in it, unless they show a more reasonable attitude to costumer support.

#1
Posted 05/13/2013 06:57 PM   
Looks to me like you can disable optimus in the bios. Does that help?
Looks to me like you can disable optimus in the bios. Does that help?

#2
Posted 05/13/2013 07:08 PM   
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