I am a 3D Gamer, and so are you! Let's all get to know one another!
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Mike, the Megadrive was the first console I owned (although I had a hankering for an NES and Duckshoot!) and I used to love playing the main Sega games like Golden Axe and Shinobi, but also really enjoyed the John Madden and NHL games, The Thunderforce series and others like Gynoug and the lesser known games like Assault Suit Leynos - Target Earth in N.A.
Wonder why you called it the Megadrive and not the Genesis? Mine was imported from Taiwan before it was official in the U.K.
It's funny, back then the games used to cost £60 each and I genuinely finished every game I bought. These days with Steam I generally equate the cost of them to x pounds per 30 minutes of play time and just accept that there are too many to finish them all.
Probably in the last few years the games I've enjoyed the most and finished have been the Walking Dead series and the Mass Efect series. Edited as forgot about Far Cry 3, despite the performance issues. Also, Just Cause 2 was epic....
At the moment I'm mainly addicted to Mechwarrior Online.
Stryker, you mentioned Dungeon Master? That has to be one of the all time defining classics... Spent so long playing that and the expansion/follow up on the ST. What a game. Remember the dread of running out of food and the satisfaction of seeing the fireball spells getting bigger and bigger. Wasn't it 6-4-4?
Mike, the Megadrive was the first console I owned (although I had a hankering for an NES and Duckshoot!) and I used to love playing the main Sega games like Golden Axe and Shinobi, but also really enjoyed the John Madden and NHL games, The Thunderforce series and others like Gynoug and the lesser known games like Assault Suit Leynos - Target Earth in N.A.
Wonder why you called it the Megadrive and not the Genesis? Mine was imported from Taiwan before it was official in the U.K.
It's funny, back then the games used to cost £60 each and I genuinely finished every game I bought. These days with Steam I generally equate the cost of them to x pounds per 30 minutes of play time and just accept that there are too many to finish them all.
Probably in the last few years the games I've enjoyed the most and finished have been the Walking Dead series and the Mass Efect series. Edited as forgot about Far Cry 3, despite the performance issues. Also, Just Cause 2 was epic....
At the moment I'm mainly addicted to Mechwarrior Online.
Stryker, you mentioned Dungeon Master? That has to be one of the all time defining classics... Spent so long playing that and the expansion/follow up on the ST. What a game. Remember the dread of running out of food and the satisfaction of seeing the fireball spells getting bigger and bigger. Wasn't it 6-4-4?
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Great thread. :)
Great posts, I didn't realize most of us are as old as me or even older. :)
I'll start from the end - I also think that the people who work fixing the games for all of us, deserve infinite respect. They're awesome. There are games on my "top 10 3D" list that didn't even start in 3D, and now I can play them at 100% perfect 3D. I will be forever grateful for that.
Now let's talk about something less important, which would be me ;)
[u]no info section: ;) :[/u]
- Unfortunately, I used the same nickname too many times and shared too much personal info already, so I cannot give my real name here :( (although I would have no problem with doing it through private messages, it's not a secret, just the problem of several trolls that would do everything to make my life miserable.)
- I feel a little ashamed seeing what you guys are doing and what education you've got, so I'll skip this part too.
OK, let's go then:
- I am 35 years old 3D addict from Poland.
- I play games since I encountered an arcade machine with game similar to Sea Fox on Atari (you viewed a game through a scope and shot at ships passing above your submarine) and Pole Position (steering wheel! woah!) in 1986, and my dad bought a Pong clone. In 1990 after a difficult 2 weeks in hospital, me and my brother received something that was supposed to make up for our suffering (almost whole family got badly ill after eating something with a Salmonella germ). Those two weeks were horrible, but Atari 65XE was so good, that from today's perspective I'm glad I ate that poisoned food and landed in the hospital. Otherwise I wouldn't be one of the first in my town to own a "computer". From this point I was always a gaming and computers enthusiast.
- In 1995 I've found a series of stereoscopic 3D articles. Those stereograms created from dots, you must remember them too, surely. The ones you had to watch with "cross eye" technique, but I was so amazed by the effect, I started to draw simple figures in my notepad while sitting on a boring lessons at school. Finally I got the distance almost right and created something that looked.. erm.. different to 2D, I wouldn't say it looked 3d, but I was really happy nevertheless. :)
- in 2001 or early 2002 I've bought my first 3D glasses for PC. It was a cheaper Elsa Revelator knock-off, from Gainward. I still have them. GF4 4200 64bit was a first card that was really capable of great 3D at 60fps, and since 1994 when I saw Doom on 486DX/2 I am an addict to 60fps and never want to play at lower. But GF 4 was enough to maintain those 60 or 75fps in many great games.
- I wasn't rich enough to have internet until the end of 2003, but I was visiting my friends and internet cafes, and I downloaded as much of [u][b]Stereovision.net[/u][/b] forum pages as I could, posting some things whenever I had a chance. I don't even remember anyone particular. :(
I saw threads about HMDs, saw threads about mirrored 3D, and finally decided to build one. I used two CRT 19" monitors and a bathroom mirror. If it was not for the eyestrain (bathroom mirror hurts the eyes, and surface mirror was nowhere to be found, I wanted to buy one, but never succeeded), I would never got back to 2D. Motion blur free + crosstalk free 100fps Painkiller. THAT.. WAS... MINDBLOWING...So was Mafia 1, Colin 2 and 3 and many, many more. I remember a thread on stereovision.net where people were fighting with then very new Far Cry 1. My GF4 didn't do too well, as you can imagine ;) I got around 20fps with quite a lot of artifacts, but something was displayed properly and I said then: "If playstation 3 has graphics like this, world will never be the same". Unfortunately 3D didn't become a norm, as I expected. LCD monitors were incompatible with 3D, PS3/x360 had almost no games in 3D 60fps, and all the revolution just didn't happen :(
- about my knowledge - I'm not a programmer (apart from a few programs in BASIC and Turbo Pascal), but until the internet era came, I was reading 5 magazines about computers and games every month. I do know a thing or two about how it all works, I still read as much as I can, even semiwiki.com of which, to be honest, I don't understand too much :D when they talk about specific production things. I am a local "PC emergency service" and I am well respected on one particular forum, where in 1% of my 40 000 posts, I helped people with PC/gaming problems/questions. I consider myself a "computer guy" then, and I am an evangelist about 60fps/low persistence and 3D. In 2014 I persuaded 15 people to buy low persistence 120Hz monitors and about 6 people to buy 3D Vision 2. I even sent my monitor and glasses to people I never saw in real life, that's how much I want every gamer in the world to enjoy 3D. I hope there is another 100 people that used what I wrote to decide for 3D or at least 120Hz monitor, since the forum is well positioned at google, so I'd like to think I converted many more people to 3D, besides the ones that registered to say "thank you" or ask me some questions. I'm kinda glad I [s]wasted[/s] invested those hundreds of hours of my life to evangelize 3D. Many skype discussions, tons of posts on forums around the world. I'd like to think I did whatever a person unsignificant
as me could, to inform people about the greatness of 3D gaming.
In recent days I am really sad, because the 3D era, the "PC golden era" and "VR era" won't come as I expected, with Oculus Rift CV1 in 2015/16. The "masses are more important" issue, ruined great thing [u][b]AGAIN[/b][/u]. At least it clearly seems to be the case, I just cannot be naive anymore to hold hope for Rift CV1 to turn out as good as it is needed to be to ignite a revolution. I was one of the VR "believers", got DK2 and praised it, but big money clearly switched Oculus direction to the bad direction. It was a great opportunity to ignite the PC market, to make 3D a standard in PC gaming, to make PC as relevant to developers like it was never before. Also CV1 could be really amazing, but they clearly changed their minds and decided to abandon their promises about focusing on PC platform offering greater performance, and on giving the "best VR a gamer can offer to other gamer below 500$". It's my personal tragedy, because I'm quickly loosing my hearing and vision, I probably won't be able to play games in 2018-2020, and great 3D and VR was my "brightest light on the horizon" to which I turned when feeling blue. I envy healthy and young people. VR will be great in 2030 no matter how hard companies will screw this up.
So there you have it: I'm an old gamer that treats 3D and VR very emotionally and passionately. And as you can see, I tend to write too long, boring posts. ;)
But I'm proud to be one of you guys - computer geeks, loving 3D. Never gave up hope. Miracles happen (like GTA V and 3D - Who would've though that f..g PC gamers in the ass by sitting 2-3 years on the ready-to-ship PC verion of GTA V, would actually be beneficial - it wouldn't have 3D Vision if it was done in 2015 instead of 2012-13, that's the only reason this game will have 3D Vision support, in my opinion).
BTW.
Steam group:
When I played Grid:Autosport today, I was really missing the Amiga times, when I always had a friend sitting by my side. We were saying "look at this! wow! Look how amazing it is!", which boosted the joy from gaming on some next generation hardware. If you don't mind my not perfect English and often playing not 100% sober, I'd really like to play with a voice chat, just so I can say "wow! this looks amazing in 3D" while knowing that a person who I'm playing with, has the same quality of 3D as I do. Therefore I gladly joined the 3DVision group, but there are many different 3D Vision and 3DVision groups. Which particular one we should focus on?
Great thread. :)
Great posts, I didn't realize most of us are as old as me or even older. :)
I'll start from the end - I also think that the people who work fixing the games for all of us, deserve infinite respect. They're awesome. There are games on my "top 10 3D" list that didn't even start in 3D, and now I can play them at 100% perfect 3D. I will be forever grateful for that.
Now let's talk about something less important, which would be me ;)
no info section: ;) :
- Unfortunately, I used the same nickname too many times and shared too much personal info already, so I cannot give my real name here :( (although I would have no problem with doing it through private messages, it's not a secret, just the problem of several trolls that would do everything to make my life miserable.)
- I feel a little ashamed seeing what you guys are doing and what education you've got, so I'll skip this part too.
OK, let's go then:
- I am 35 years old 3D addict from Poland.
- I play games since I encountered an arcade machine with game similar to Sea Fox on Atari (you viewed a game through a scope and shot at ships passing above your submarine) and Pole Position (steering wheel! woah!) in 1986, and my dad bought a Pong clone. In 1990 after a difficult 2 weeks in hospital, me and my brother received something that was supposed to make up for our suffering (almost whole family got badly ill after eating something with a Salmonella germ). Those two weeks were horrible, but Atari 65XE was so good, that from today's perspective I'm glad I ate that poisoned food and landed in the hospital. Otherwise I wouldn't be one of the first in my town to own a "computer". From this point I was always a gaming and computers enthusiast.
- In 1995 I've found a series of stereoscopic 3D articles. Those stereograms created from dots, you must remember them too, surely. The ones you had to watch with "cross eye" technique, but I was so amazed by the effect, I started to draw simple figures in my notepad while sitting on a boring lessons at school. Finally I got the distance almost right and created something that looked.. erm.. different to 2D, I wouldn't say it looked 3d, but I was really happy nevertheless. :)
- in 2001 or early 2002 I've bought my first 3D glasses for PC. It was a cheaper Elsa Revelator knock-off, from Gainward. I still have them. GF4 4200 64bit was a first card that was really capable of great 3D at 60fps, and since 1994 when I saw Doom on 486DX/2 I am an addict to 60fps and never want to play at lower. But GF 4 was enough to maintain those 60 or 75fps in many great games.
- I wasn't rich enough to have internet until the end of 2003, but I was visiting my friends and internet cafes, and I downloaded as much of Stereovision.net forum pages as I could, posting some things whenever I had a chance. I don't even remember anyone particular. :(
I saw threads about HMDs, saw threads about mirrored 3D, and finally decided to build one. I used two CRT 19" monitors and a bathroom mirror. If it was not for the eyestrain (bathroom mirror hurts the eyes, and surface mirror was nowhere to be found, I wanted to buy one, but never succeeded), I would never got back to 2D. Motion blur free + crosstalk free 100fps Painkiller. THAT.. WAS... MINDBLOWING...So was Mafia 1, Colin 2 and 3 and many, many more. I remember a thread on stereovision.net where people were fighting with then very new Far Cry 1. My GF4 didn't do too well, as you can imagine ;) I got around 20fps with quite a lot of artifacts, but something was displayed properly and I said then: "If playstation 3 has graphics like this, world will never be the same". Unfortunately 3D didn't become a norm, as I expected. LCD monitors were incompatible with 3D, PS3/x360 had almost no games in 3D 60fps, and all the revolution just didn't happen :(
- about my knowledge - I'm not a programmer (apart from a few programs in BASIC and Turbo Pascal), but until the internet era came, I was reading 5 magazines about computers and games every month. I do know a thing or two about how it all works, I still read as much as I can, even semiwiki.com of which, to be honest, I don't understand too much :D when they talk about specific production things. I am a local "PC emergency service" and I am well respected on one particular forum, where in 1% of my 40 000 posts, I helped people with PC/gaming problems/questions. I consider myself a "computer guy" then, and I am an evangelist about 60fps/low persistence and 3D. In 2014 I persuaded 15 people to buy low persistence 120Hz monitors and about 6 people to buy 3D Vision 2. I even sent my monitor and glasses to people I never saw in real life, that's how much I want every gamer in the world to enjoy 3D. I hope there is another 100 people that used what I wrote to decide for 3D or at least 120Hz monitor, since the forum is well positioned at google, so I'd like to think I converted many more people to 3D, besides the ones that registered to say "thank you" or ask me some questions. I'm kinda glad I wasted invested those hundreds of hours of my life to evangelize 3D. Many skype discussions, tons of posts on forums around the world. I'd like to think I did whatever a person unsignificant
as me could, to inform people about the greatness of 3D gaming.
In recent days I am really sad, because the 3D era, the "PC golden era" and "VR era" won't come as I expected, with Oculus Rift CV1 in 2015/16. The "masses are more important" issue, ruined great thing AGAIN. At least it clearly seems to be the case, I just cannot be naive anymore to hold hope for Rift CV1 to turn out as good as it is needed to be to ignite a revolution. I was one of the VR "believers", got DK2 and praised it, but big money clearly switched Oculus direction to the bad direction. It was a great opportunity to ignite the PC market, to make 3D a standard in PC gaming, to make PC as relevant to developers like it was never before. Also CV1 could be really amazing, but they clearly changed their minds and decided to abandon their promises about focusing on PC platform offering greater performance, and on giving the "best VR a gamer can offer to other gamer below 500$". It's my personal tragedy, because I'm quickly loosing my hearing and vision, I probably won't be able to play games in 2018-2020, and great 3D and VR was my "brightest light on the horizon" to which I turned when feeling blue. I envy healthy and young people. VR will be great in 2030 no matter how hard companies will screw this up.
So there you have it: I'm an old gamer that treats 3D and VR very emotionally and passionately. And as you can see, I tend to write too long, boring posts. ;)
But I'm proud to be one of you guys - computer geeks, loving 3D. Never gave up hope. Miracles happen (like GTA V and 3D - Who would've though that f..g PC gamers in the ass by sitting 2-3 years on the ready-to-ship PC verion of GTA V, would actually be beneficial - it wouldn't have 3D Vision if it was done in 2015 instead of 2012-13, that's the only reason this game will have 3D Vision support, in my opinion).
BTW.
Steam group:
When I played Grid:Autosport today, I was really missing the Amiga times, when I always had a friend sitting by my side. We were saying "look at this! wow! Look how amazing it is!", which boosted the joy from gaming on some next generation hardware. If you don't mind my not perfect English and often playing not 100% sober, I'd really like to play with a voice chat, just so I can say "wow! this looks amazing in 3D" while knowing that a person who I'm playing with, has the same quality of 3D as I do. Therefore I gladly joined the 3DVision group, but there are many different 3D Vision and 3DVision groups. Which particular one we should focus on?
Ronson, that's an amazing post and don't worry about achievements or what you do, it doesn't define who you are.
Just had to say, when you mention the Amiga I just think the cinemaware games? Wasn't that it? "It came from the desert" and "The Rocketeer"? Bear with me, this is from memory, not google!
Having said that, despite spending hour upon hour playing sensible soccer on the Atari ST, my best memories of the Amiga have to be playing Supercars 2 multiplayer.. Sorry for diverting this post away from 3D Vision btw.
Ronson, that's an amazing post and don't worry about achievements or what you do, it doesn't define who you are.
Just had to say, when you mention the Amiga I just think the cinemaware games? Wasn't that it? "It came from the desert" and "The Rocketeer"? Bear with me, this is from memory, not google!
Having said that, despite spending hour upon hour playing sensible soccer on the Atari ST, my best memories of the Amiga have to be playing Supercars 2 multiplayer.. Sorry for diverting this post away from 3D Vision btw.
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Cool idea! I'm Dan
I'm 55 and can't wait to retire...to be able to have time for RPG ;-) and play with fixes... One needs focus!
I started 3D gaming, anaglyph, in early 2009, then went immediately to the shutter glasses.
I live in Seattle, WA, US
I'm co-owner of a privately held Shipping Agency, basically babysitters for ships when they come in to U.S. and Canadian ports. Ships/Commerce don't stop moving so at it 24/7. Thus my enjoyment of 3D games to take breaks from the day to day, in my recliner with a 360 controller.
My early days, was heavy in to "Basic" and had the first Casio programmable calculator, a Tandy 1000, and an Osborne...
My user name, real creative, my initials, and avatar is a stuffed doll my daughter gave me that she won at a carnival when she was 6.
Yes, I watch this forum as much as I can to keep up and await the fixes that you guys take the time and effort to do.
A pleasure, and Thank You.
Cool idea! I'm Dan
I'm 55 and can't wait to retire...to be able to have time for RPG ;-) and play with fixes... One needs focus!
I started 3D gaming, anaglyph, in early 2009, then went immediately to the shutter glasses.
I live in Seattle, WA, US
I'm co-owner of a privately held Shipping Agency, basically babysitters for ships when they come in to U.S. and Canadian ports. Ships/Commerce don't stop moving so at it 24/7. Thus my enjoyment of 3D games to take breaks from the day to day, in my recliner with a 360 controller.
My early days, was heavy in to "Basic" and had the first Casio programmable calculator, a Tandy 1000, and an Osborne...
My user name, real creative, my initials, and avatar is a stuffed doll my daughter gave me that she won at a carnival when she was 6.
Yes, I watch this forum as much as I can to keep up and await the fixes that you guys take the time and effort to do.
My Name is Sebastian :)
From Tampa Bay, Florida
I'm 34
I work in IT
I used have a SNES. I started PC gaming in 1997 and haven't looked back. Been gaming since the Voodoo 2 days
I'm an nVidia fan now, and started gaming in 3D in 2009 with 3D Vision Discover with a CRT. Then switched to 3D TV play in 2012 I believe until finally buying an ASUS 3D monitor a few months ago. I Love 3D vision but I feel it needs support from nVidia.
I believe the main issue with nVidia is to try demo it to the masses since you can't show it on a video or Screenshot by itself. I used to Work a Best Buy and really tried to get this some exposure by asking management to set up a display computer with 3D vision. However, it never materialized :(.
I want to personally thank all of the contributors of http://helixmod.blogspot.com/ whom without them 3D vision would have died a long time ago. Thank you all for keeping this amazing feature alive.
My Name is Sebastian :)
From Tampa Bay, Florida
I'm 34
I work in IT
I used have a SNES. I started PC gaming in 1997 and haven't looked back. Been gaming since the Voodoo 2 days
I'm an nVidia fan now, and started gaming in 3D in 2009 with 3D Vision Discover with a CRT. Then switched to 3D TV play in 2012 I believe until finally buying an ASUS 3D monitor a few months ago. I Love 3D vision but I feel it needs support from nVidia.
I believe the main issue with nVidia is to try demo it to the masses since you can't show it on a video or Screenshot by itself. I used to Work a Best Buy and really tried to get this some exposure by asking management to set up a display computer with 3D vision. However, it never materialized :(.
I want to personally thank all of the contributors of http://helixmod.blogspot.com/ whom without them 3D vision would have died a long time ago. Thank you all for keeping this amazing feature alive.
[quote="rustyk"]Stryker, you mentioned Dungeon Master? That has to be one of the all time defining classics... Spent so long playing that and the expansion/follow up on the ST. What a game. Remember the dread of running out of food and the satisfaction of seeing the fireball spells getting bigger and bigger. Wasn't it 6-4-4?
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Ha ha, yep...that game did it for me in terms of consuming my time. Chaos Strikes Back was real hard to find at that time and I did get lucky one day in Toronto where a small PC shop had a copy.
Two things are clearly memorable for me. 1.) The giggler creature that would steal your shit. It took me awhile to figure out why the hell I was losing my gear. Finally when I killed one, ah, there is where my shit went...lol
2.) Desperation in a fight when cornered. I would throw everything I had in my inventory at the enemy and I'll never forget killing a monster with a sliver of health left and it was a screamer slice that killed it. Even the food in that game had damage points!
Too funny....
You probably know this already, Legend of Grimrock has brought back this old style of game and there are two mods that are remakes of DM and DM - Chaos Strike Backs. The author has created custom tile sets and used the portraits from the Hall of Champions...pretty dam close to the originals. Also plays great in 3D which is the icing on the cake!
[url]http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104308534[/url]
rustyk said:Stryker, you mentioned Dungeon Master? That has to be one of the all time defining classics... Spent so long playing that and the expansion/follow up on the ST. What a game. Remember the dread of running out of food and the satisfaction of seeing the fireball spells getting bigger and bigger. Wasn't it 6-4-4?
Ha ha, yep...that game did it for me in terms of consuming my time. Chaos Strikes Back was real hard to find at that time and I did get lucky one day in Toronto where a small PC shop had a copy.
Two things are clearly memorable for me. 1.) The giggler creature that would steal your shit. It took me awhile to figure out why the hell I was losing my gear. Finally when I killed one, ah, there is where my shit went...lol
2.) Desperation in a fight when cornered. I would throw everything I had in my inventory at the enemy and I'll never forget killing a monster with a sliver of health left and it was a screamer slice that killed it. Even the food in that game had damage points!
Too funny....
You probably know this already, Legend of Grimrock has brought back this old style of game and there are two mods that are remakes of DM and DM - Chaos Strike Backs. The author has created custom tile sets and used the portraits from the Hall of Champions...pretty dam close to the originals. Also plays great in 3D which is the icing on the cake!
Hello,
My Name is Marcus, 40, from the middle of Germany.
I work for the local city administration IT.
First contact to video games in the early 80´s
In the end 90´s I start with 3D Modeling.
Got my 3D Vision two years ago and now, I cant play w/o.
We know from what we talking, 3D Vision is the best immersion we can get in Videogame and its a shame, that we only a fringe group that fix games by ourselfes.
Hello,
My Name is Marcus, 40, from the middle of Germany.
I work for the local city administration IT.
First contact to video games in the early 80´s
In the end 90´s I start with 3D Modeling.
Got my 3D Vision two years ago and now, I cant play w/o.
We know from what we talking, 3D Vision is the best immersion we can get in Videogame and its a shame, that we only a fringe group that fix games by ourselfes.
I'm George, a Romanian living in Belgium. 40 years old, degree in languages, constant interest in IT and developing technologies.
I've only discovered 3D gaming in 2011 (had heard about 3D possibilities, finally 3D Vision 2 + VG278H's lightboost seemed to address the last big caveats), but I've been gaming for what seems like all my life.
I was lucky to discover Helixmod and convergence quite quickly, since all it took was to take a look at almost any game and then google "why is 3D broken in my game". Ah, the early days, when we thought that just because Nvidia invented such an awesome technology, any game would work with it flowlessly, right?
Anyway, thanks to the 3D community, since 2011 I've been able to live through what I could call the golden age of my gaming years.
BIG THANKS TO YOU, GUYS!!!
If 3D Vision dies off, as it seems to be doing, I will probably abandon gaming alltogether. If it gets jumpstarted into a VR age, and the developers support it (although from all the comments so far, VR does not produce the same toyfication in 3rd person games, and seems suited more to 1st person or simulators - thus not replacing 3D Vision at all) then probably I've got more great 3D gaming years left. :-)
Happy gaming, everyone!
I'm George, a Romanian living in Belgium. 40 years old, degree in languages, constant interest in IT and developing technologies.
I've only discovered 3D gaming in 2011 (had heard about 3D possibilities, finally 3D Vision 2 + VG278H's lightboost seemed to address the last big caveats), but I've been gaming for what seems like all my life.
I was lucky to discover Helixmod and convergence quite quickly, since all it took was to take a look at almost any game and then google "why is 3D broken in my game". Ah, the early days, when we thought that just because Nvidia invented such an awesome technology, any game would work with it flowlessly, right?
Anyway, thanks to the 3D community, since 2011 I've been able to live through what I could call the golden age of my gaming years.
BIG THANKS TO YOU, GUYS!!!
If 3D Vision dies off, as it seems to be doing, I will probably abandon gaming alltogether. If it gets jumpstarted into a VR age, and the developers support it (although from all the comments so far, VR does not produce the same toyfication in 3rd person games, and seems suited more to 1st person or simulators - thus not replacing 3D Vision at all) then probably I've got more great 3D gaming years left. :-)
When it comes to chatrooms we have at least two group options:
The bigger "Nvidia 3D Vision Gamers"
or the smaller "Recommended 3D Vision Games"
I'm idling in both for the time being.
46 vs 274 members
In the smaller Group almost everybody has officer rights and with Helifax as the admin.
Feel free to join the chatrooom of your choice.
edit: finally there is "3D Vision Games" with 17 members.
Simon here, another from the UK, up in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and I'm 40.
Seems like ages since I got 3D Vision, firstly with a Dell 21" CRT (and lots of ghosting) and for about the last 4-5 years I've been using the Asus VG236HE which I'm very happy with overall.
Just upgraded to a GTX970 and this is the first GPU I've had that could run the latest games in stereo. Previously I've been stuck with games that were a few years old due to having mid-range GPUs (260, 460, 560ti and 660).
Some highlights of my stereo 3D gaming life - Kingdoms of Amalur*, Trine 1/2*, Skyrim*, Oblivion, Dead Space 1 & 2*, Assassin's Creed, Batman Arkham Asylum & City*, Thief, Thief 2, Far Cry, Far Cry 3*, Dishonored*, Fallout 3 & New Vegas, Dark Souls 1 & 2*, Left 4 Dead. Many of those were fixed by the awesome people in this small community, so a huge thank you to them.
Looking forward to dividing into Shadows of Mordor, Lord of the Fallen, Assassin's Creed 2 (and beyond), Alien Isolation and many more in the near future...
(* games that were particular stunning in stereo 3D)
Simon here, another from the UK, up in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and I'm 40.
Seems like ages since I got 3D Vision, firstly with a Dell 21" CRT (and lots of ghosting) and for about the last 4-5 years I've been using the Asus VG236HE which I'm very happy with overall.
Just upgraded to a GTX970 and this is the first GPU I've had that could run the latest games in stereo. Previously I've been stuck with games that were a few years old due to having mid-range GPUs (260, 460, 560ti and 660).
Some highlights of my stereo 3D gaming life - Kingdoms of Amalur*, Trine 1/2*, Skyrim*, Oblivion, Dead Space 1 & 2*, Assassin's Creed, Batman Arkham Asylum & City*, Thief, Thief 2, Far Cry, Far Cry 3*, Dishonored*, Fallout 3 & New Vegas, Dark Souls 1 & 2*, Left 4 Dead. Many of those were fixed by the awesome people in this small community, so a huge thank you to them.
Looking forward to dividing into Shadows of Mordor, Lord of the Fallen, Assassin's Creed 2 (and beyond), Alien Isolation and many more in the near future...
(* games that were particular stunning in stereo 3D)
My name is Stefan
I'm 42 years old
I have lived in the German-speaking part of Switzerland all my life, though I was born in Croatia
I went to commercial school and was determined to work in the gaming industry afterwards, so I started in marketing at SEGA's Swiss distributor, during the Saturn era.
Next up was a 9 year stint at Electronic Arts, before founding my own distribution company and representing Konami for 5 years.
My profile name and picture hint at me being a DC Comics nerd and a fan of Konami's original Contra, published as "Gryzor" by Ocean Software in Europe at the time.
If there's anything I love more than games, it's probably pop music and we've had plenty of timeless tunes in the '80s :)
Speaking of timeless... classic 2D games entice me at least as much as the newly discovered 3D stuff, so I enjoy me some GroovyMAME with a proper arcade joystick setup on a lag-free CRT TV.
I first got hooked by Nintendo's Game&Watch version of Donkey Kong in 1982, then played Time Pilot on a mate's Commodore 64. Got an Amiga as a birthday present and soon drooled over the Mega Drive and Super Famicom, before buying my first PC.
Like Fred and Russell, I fondly remember Dungeon Master, as it left the same, lasting impression on me too ^^
Got into 3D only a year ago, after reading a few comments from bedazzled 3D Vision users and figuring that they probably have a point.
Like most of you, I now have a hard time playing polygon-based stuff in 2D, because the artistic level of detail is totally lost, unless you get to view it in proper 3D.
Dragon Age: Inquisition in 3D is pretty much my vanilla medieval fantasy come true, so I'm forever grateful to Mike, Octavian and bo3b for fixing it.
My name is Stefan
I'm 42 years old
I have lived in the German-speaking part of Switzerland all my life, though I was born in Croatia
I went to commercial school and was determined to work in the gaming industry afterwards, so I started in marketing at SEGA's Swiss distributor, during the Saturn era.
Next up was a 9 year stint at Electronic Arts, before founding my own distribution company and representing Konami for 5 years.
My profile name and picture hint at me being a DC Comics nerd and a fan of Konami's original Contra, published as "Gryzor" by Ocean Software in Europe at the time.
If there's anything I love more than games, it's probably pop music and we've had plenty of timeless tunes in the '80s :)
Speaking of timeless... classic 2D games entice me at least as much as the newly discovered 3D stuff, so I enjoy me some GroovyMAME with a proper arcade joystick setup on a lag-free CRT TV.
I first got hooked by Nintendo's Game&Watch version of Donkey Kong in 1982, then played Time Pilot on a mate's Commodore 64. Got an Amiga as a birthday present and soon drooled over the Mega Drive and Super Famicom, before buying my first PC.
Like Fred and Russell, I fondly remember Dungeon Master, as it left the same, lasting impression on me too ^^
Got into 3D only a year ago, after reading a few comments from bedazzled 3D Vision users and figuring that they probably have a point.
Like most of you, I now have a hard time playing polygon-based stuff in 2D, because the artistic level of detail is totally lost, unless you get to view it in proper 3D.
Dragon Age: Inquisition in 3D is pretty much my vanilla medieval fantasy come true, so I'm forever grateful to Mike, Octavian and bo3b for fixing it.
Luis here. I'm from Spain and was born in 1973 (41).
I'm not very active on the forum for the last months, but almost everyday watching around.
I started in this with the first 3D vision Kit (Samsung monitor) seven yaers ago. These days i use a Benq xl2411t, and an Optoma hd67 proyector. But my last toy acquired is a vr headset for mobile devices (lakento MVR), and i have to tell it's amazing for the low cost.
I want to express my gratitude to this small community for keep me informed for the last years.
Although 3d vision is almost dead, stereoscopic 3D has turn in a important "thing" of my entertainment, and obviosly, a part of my life.
Hope this go on xD
Luis here. I'm from Spain and was born in 1973 (41).
I'm not very active on the forum for the last months, but almost everyday watching around.
I started in this with the first 3D vision Kit (Samsung monitor) seven yaers ago. These days i use a Benq xl2411t, and an Optoma hd67 proyector. But my last toy acquired is a vr headset for mobile devices (lakento MVR), and i have to tell it's amazing for the low cost.
I want to express my gratitude to this small community for keep me informed for the last years.
Although 3d vision is almost dead, stereoscopic 3D has turn in a important "thing" of my entertainment, and obviosly, a part of my life.
My name is Shane, 34 years old and I live in Kansas, USA.
I don't have any type of degree or anything like that (or even a job) as I was severely depressed as a teenager (chemical imbalances), and made some poor choices. I did however, have amazing parents and especially my (late) father who taught and showed me how to be a good husband and father. I am a stay-home dad for 12 years now and have 4 kids (I've probably changed 10,000 diapers in my life lol)and an amazing wife who supports all my expensive interests. And here they are.
My three passions are my family, playing guitars, and of course playing video games. The first game I played was Frogger on a Colecovision that my uncle owned, when I was 3 years old and immediately I was hooked. My first actual owned console was the NES, and I've owned pretty much all consoles since, and still have them all. But, my first foray into PC gaming started at the tender age of 5 as my dad was a PC enthusiast. I used to play these education games on his IBM 8088 LOL. But he was always upgrading and buying new machines, so by the time I was about 11 years old, I was already building PCs. I remember wanting to learn how to use MS-DOS so I asked my dad to teach me. Well he did what I think now is the best thing: handed me the DOS manual and said "read it son". HAHA! Needless to say, I learned DOS inside and out, made my own bootup menus and configs and the awesome gaming commenced! But that also taught me that, if I need to know something, I have the ability to seek it out! Because of that I also taught myself to play a mean guitar which is my other big hobby. :)
3d Vision.. Well, back in 2009 I got my new GTX 285 video card, updated my drivers, and noticed a new setting in the NV control panel I hadn't seen before. Set up seteroscopic 3d. My mind went.. wha?? I had always loved anaglyph 3d movies and owned quite a few dvd's. So I went into that setting and turned it on, found a perfect red/blue paper glasses match in one of my daughters barbie dvds (LOL). My favorite game was Oblivion at the time, so I started it up in discover mode. BLOWN AWAY IMMEDIATELY!! I couldn't believe just the added detail revealed in every little object in the game! Regardless of the red/blue off colors. I spent the next few hours messing with depth and convergence settings and going crazy with them. After that I researched what else Nvidia had to offer. Well suffice to say, I got up from my desk, went to my wife and told her my next big gaming purchase was the Samsung 2233 and 3d vision kit bar none. Been loving 3d Vision ever since, and have since upgraded to Vision 2 and all that stuff. I also have a Nintendo 3DS (love it!!) and a 3dtv for watching 3d blu-rays, and my family loves to watch them, and my wife loves to play Guild Wars 2 in 3d on my computer. :)
I don't post too often, but I read these forums every single day, sometimes multiple times a day. I have a HUGE THANK YOU to all you geniuses who make fixes for games! I know that if stereo 3d gaming were to die off, I'd still play games, but admittedly would seriously miss the epic immersion provided by the, what should be obvious to the human race, use of BOTH eyes in a game!
Anyway.. cheers dudes! :D
My name is Shane, 34 years old and I live in Kansas, USA.
I don't have any type of degree or anything like that (or even a job) as I was severely depressed as a teenager (chemical imbalances), and made some poor choices. I did however, have amazing parents and especially my (late) father who taught and showed me how to be a good husband and father. I am a stay-home dad for 12 years now and have 4 kids (I've probably changed 10,000 diapers in my life lol)and an amazing wife who supports all my expensive interests. And here they are.
My three passions are my family, playing guitars, and of course playing video games. The first game I played was Frogger on a Colecovision that my uncle owned, when I was 3 years old and immediately I was hooked. My first actual owned console was the NES, and I've owned pretty much all consoles since, and still have them all. But, my first foray into PC gaming started at the tender age of 5 as my dad was a PC enthusiast. I used to play these education games on his IBM 8088 LOL. But he was always upgrading and buying new machines, so by the time I was about 11 years old, I was already building PCs. I remember wanting to learn how to use MS-DOS so I asked my dad to teach me. Well he did what I think now is the best thing: handed me the DOS manual and said "read it son". HAHA! Needless to say, I learned DOS inside and out, made my own bootup menus and configs and the awesome gaming commenced! But that also taught me that, if I need to know something, I have the ability to seek it out! Because of that I also taught myself to play a mean guitar which is my other big hobby. :)
3d Vision.. Well, back in 2009 I got my new GTX 285 video card, updated my drivers, and noticed a new setting in the NV control panel I hadn't seen before. Set up seteroscopic 3d. My mind went.. wha?? I had always loved anaglyph 3d movies and owned quite a few dvd's. So I went into that setting and turned it on, found a perfect red/blue paper glasses match in one of my daughters barbie dvds (LOL). My favorite game was Oblivion at the time, so I started it up in discover mode. BLOWN AWAY IMMEDIATELY!! I couldn't believe just the added detail revealed in every little object in the game! Regardless of the red/blue off colors. I spent the next few hours messing with depth and convergence settings and going crazy with them. After that I researched what else Nvidia had to offer. Well suffice to say, I got up from my desk, went to my wife and told her my next big gaming purchase was the Samsung 2233 and 3d vision kit bar none. Been loving 3d Vision ever since, and have since upgraded to Vision 2 and all that stuff. I also have a Nintendo 3DS (love it!!) and a 3dtv for watching 3d blu-rays, and my family loves to watch them, and my wife loves to play Guild Wars 2 in 3d on my computer. :)
I don't post too often, but I read these forums every single day, sometimes multiple times a day. I have a HUGE THANK YOU to all you geniuses who make fixes for games! I know that if stereo 3d gaming were to die off, I'd still play games, but admittedly would seriously miss the epic immersion provided by the, what should be obvious to the human race, use of BOTH eyes in a game!
Anyway.. cheers dudes! :D
AsRock X58 Extreme6 mobo
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ASUS DirectCU II GTX 780 3gb
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3d Vision 1 w/ Samsung 2233rz Monitor
3d Vision 2 w/ ASUS VG278HE Monitor
I'm actually genuinely surprised at the average age of people on here, I feel like I'm the youngest guy here.
My name's Artur and I live a bit north of Toronto and am from Canada.
I'm currently 19 years old and am doing my kinesiology degree at york university hoping to get into med school. Although I do like coding a lot and also like puzzles, fixing dx 11 games has a really, really steep learning curve to be of any use which is why I've put it on backburner for now.
Got into gaming seriously 3 years ago, tapered off a bit a year ago and now only prefer to play 3d games when I can. I was seriously impressed at the anaglyph 3d and how it completely changed the way games are played and seen. Which caused me to eventually get a 3D projector which I love.
Also have a very bad habit of graphic whoring, just plain out refuse to play a game that looks bad unless it's had [b]a lot of praise[/b] from people whose opinion I value.
I'm actually genuinely surprised at the average age of people on here, I feel like I'm the youngest guy here.
My name's Artur and I live a bit north of Toronto and am from Canada.
I'm currently 19 years old and am doing my kinesiology degree at york university hoping to get into med school. Although I do like coding a lot and also like puzzles, fixing dx 11 games has a really, really steep learning curve to be of any use which is why I've put it on backburner for now.
Got into gaming seriously 3 years ago, tapered off a bit a year ago and now only prefer to play 3d games when I can. I was seriously impressed at the anaglyph 3d and how it completely changed the way games are played and seen. Which caused me to eventually get a 3D projector which I love.
Also have a very bad habit of graphic whoring, just plain out refuse to play a game that looks bad unless it's had a lot of praise from people whose opinion I value.
Hello my name is Mike !
I am 36 year old and live in Göteborg Sweden at the moment. Worked in various IT jobs (Service , Suppot , Eye tracking , you name it).
We (Me , my big brother en little sister) didn't get a Nintendo NES but got a Commodore PC-I with a whooping 4.77mhz 8088 processor and 512kn RAM for sinteklaas , a Dutch holiday. Those were the days :) I went out of bed in the middle of the night and took thing apart to see what was inside that little box. Mom gave me hell the next day and made me fix it... took me three days but got it worked again and have since that faithful night been hooked PC hardware and gaming ever since. 3D vision came in my life about a year ago and love every second of it.
Hello to you guys and thanks to everyone who is putting in effort keeping S3D Alive !
I am 36 year old and live in Göteborg Sweden at the moment. Worked in various IT jobs (Service , Suppot , Eye tracking , you name it).
We (Me , my big brother en little sister) didn't get a Nintendo NES but got a Commodore PC-I with a whooping 4.77mhz 8088 processor and 512kn RAM for sinteklaas , a Dutch holiday. Those were the days :) I went out of bed in the middle of the night and took thing apart to see what was inside that little box. Mom gave me hell the next day and made me fix it... took me three days but got it worked again and have since that faithful night been hooked PC hardware and gaming ever since. 3D vision came in my life about a year ago and love every second of it.
Hello to you guys and thanks to everyone who is putting in effort keeping S3D Alive !
Wonder why you called it the Megadrive and not the Genesis? Mine was imported from Taiwan before it was official in the U.K.
It's funny, back then the games used to cost £60 each and I genuinely finished every game I bought. These days with Steam I generally equate the cost of them to x pounds per 30 minutes of play time and just accept that there are too many to finish them all.
Probably in the last few years the games I've enjoyed the most and finished have been the Walking Dead series and the Mass Efect series. Edited as forgot about Far Cry 3, despite the performance issues. Also, Just Cause 2 was epic....
At the moment I'm mainly addicted to Mechwarrior Online.
Stryker, you mentioned Dungeon Master? That has to be one of the all time defining classics... Spent so long playing that and the expansion/follow up on the ST. What a game. Remember the dread of running out of food and the satisfaction of seeing the fireball spells getting bigger and bigger. Wasn't it 6-4-4?
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Great posts, I didn't realize most of us are as old as me or even older. :)
I'll start from the end - I also think that the people who work fixing the games for all of us, deserve infinite respect. They're awesome. There are games on my "top 10 3D" list that didn't even start in 3D, and now I can play them at 100% perfect 3D. I will be forever grateful for that.
Now let's talk about something less important, which would be me ;)
no info section: ;) :
- Unfortunately, I used the same nickname too many times and shared too much personal info already, so I cannot give my real name here :( (although I would have no problem with doing it through private messages, it's not a secret, just the problem of several trolls that would do everything to make my life miserable.)
- I feel a little ashamed seeing what you guys are doing and what education you've got, so I'll skip this part too.
OK, let's go then:
- I am 35 years old 3D addict from Poland.
- I play games since I encountered an arcade machine with game similar to Sea Fox on Atari (you viewed a game through a scope and shot at ships passing above your submarine) and Pole Position (steering wheel! woah!) in 1986, and my dad bought a Pong clone. In 1990 after a difficult 2 weeks in hospital, me and my brother received something that was supposed to make up for our suffering (almost whole family got badly ill after eating something with a Salmonella germ). Those two weeks were horrible, but Atari 65XE was so good, that from today's perspective I'm glad I ate that poisoned food and landed in the hospital. Otherwise I wouldn't be one of the first in my town to own a "computer". From this point I was always a gaming and computers enthusiast.
- In 1995 I've found a series of stereoscopic 3D articles. Those stereograms created from dots, you must remember them too, surely. The ones you had to watch with "cross eye" technique, but I was so amazed by the effect, I started to draw simple figures in my notepad while sitting on a boring lessons at school. Finally I got the distance almost right and created something that looked.. erm.. different to 2D, I wouldn't say it looked 3d, but I was really happy nevertheless. :)
- in 2001 or early 2002 I've bought my first 3D glasses for PC. It was a cheaper Elsa Revelator knock-off, from Gainward. I still have them. GF4 4200 64bit was a first card that was really capable of great 3D at 60fps, and since 1994 when I saw Doom on 486DX/2 I am an addict to 60fps and never want to play at lower. But GF 4 was enough to maintain those 60 or 75fps in many great games.
- I wasn't rich enough to have internet until the end of 2003, but I was visiting my friends and internet cafes, and I downloaded as much of Stereovision.net forum pages as I could, posting some things whenever I had a chance. I don't even remember anyone particular. :(
I saw threads about HMDs, saw threads about mirrored 3D, and finally decided to build one. I used two CRT 19" monitors and a bathroom mirror. If it was not for the eyestrain (bathroom mirror hurts the eyes, and surface mirror was nowhere to be found, I wanted to buy one, but never succeeded), I would never got back to 2D. Motion blur free + crosstalk free 100fps Painkiller. THAT.. WAS... MINDBLOWING...So was Mafia 1, Colin 2 and 3 and many, many more. I remember a thread on stereovision.net where people were fighting with then very new Far Cry 1. My GF4 didn't do too well, as you can imagine ;) I got around 20fps with quite a lot of artifacts, but something was displayed properly and I said then: "If playstation 3 has graphics like this, world will never be the same". Unfortunately 3D didn't become a norm, as I expected. LCD monitors were incompatible with 3D, PS3/x360 had almost no games in 3D 60fps, and all the revolution just didn't happen :(
- about my knowledge - I'm not a programmer (apart from a few programs in BASIC and Turbo Pascal), but until the internet era came, I was reading 5 magazines about computers and games every month. I do know a thing or two about how it all works, I still read as much as I can, even semiwiki.com of which, to be honest, I don't understand too much :D when they talk about specific production things. I am a local "PC emergency service" and I am well respected on one particular forum, where in 1% of my 40 000 posts, I helped people with PC/gaming problems/questions. I consider myself a "computer guy" then, and I am an evangelist about 60fps/low persistence and 3D. In 2014 I persuaded 15 people to buy low persistence 120Hz monitors and about 6 people to buy 3D Vision 2. I even sent my monitor and glasses to people I never saw in real life, that's how much I want every gamer in the world to enjoy 3D. I hope there is another 100 people that used what I wrote to decide for 3D or at least 120Hz monitor, since the forum is well positioned at google, so I'd like to think I converted many more people to 3D, besides the ones that registered to say "thank you" or ask me some questions. I'm kinda glad I
wastedinvested those hundreds of hours of my life to evangelize 3D. Many skype discussions, tons of posts on forums around the world. I'd like to think I did whatever a person unsignificantas me could, to inform people about the greatness of 3D gaming.
In recent days I am really sad, because the 3D era, the "PC golden era" and "VR era" won't come as I expected, with Oculus Rift CV1 in 2015/16. The "masses are more important" issue, ruined great thing AGAIN. At least it clearly seems to be the case, I just cannot be naive anymore to hold hope for Rift CV1 to turn out as good as it is needed to be to ignite a revolution. I was one of the VR "believers", got DK2 and praised it, but big money clearly switched Oculus direction to the bad direction. It was a great opportunity to ignite the PC market, to make 3D a standard in PC gaming, to make PC as relevant to developers like it was never before. Also CV1 could be really amazing, but they clearly changed their minds and decided to abandon their promises about focusing on PC platform offering greater performance, and on giving the "best VR a gamer can offer to other gamer below 500$". It's my personal tragedy, because I'm quickly loosing my hearing and vision, I probably won't be able to play games in 2018-2020, and great 3D and VR was my "brightest light on the horizon" to which I turned when feeling blue. I envy healthy and young people. VR will be great in 2030 no matter how hard companies will screw this up.
So there you have it: I'm an old gamer that treats 3D and VR very emotionally and passionately. And as you can see, I tend to write too long, boring posts. ;)
But I'm proud to be one of you guys - computer geeks, loving 3D. Never gave up hope. Miracles happen (like GTA V and 3D - Who would've though that f..g PC gamers in the ass by sitting 2-3 years on the ready-to-ship PC verion of GTA V, would actually be beneficial - it wouldn't have 3D Vision if it was done in 2015 instead of 2012-13, that's the only reason this game will have 3D Vision support, in my opinion).
BTW.
Steam group:
When I played Grid:Autosport today, I was really missing the Amiga times, when I always had a friend sitting by my side. We were saying "look at this! wow! Look how amazing it is!", which boosted the joy from gaming on some next generation hardware. If you don't mind my not perfect English and often playing not 100% sober, I'd really like to play with a voice chat, just so I can say "wow! this looks amazing in 3D" while knowing that a person who I'm playing with, has the same quality of 3D as I do. Therefore I gladly joined the 3DVision group, but there are many different 3D Vision and 3DVision groups. Which particular one we should focus on?
Just had to say, when you mention the Amiga I just think the cinemaware games? Wasn't that it? "It came from the desert" and "The Rocketeer"? Bear with me, this is from memory, not google!
Having said that, despite spending hour upon hour playing sensible soccer on the Atari ST, my best memories of the Amiga have to be playing Supercars 2 multiplayer.. Sorry for diverting this post away from 3D Vision btw.
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I'm 55 and can't wait to retire...to be able to have time for RPG ;-) and play with fixes... One needs focus!
I started 3D gaming, anaglyph, in early 2009, then went immediately to the shutter glasses.
I live in Seattle, WA, US
I'm co-owner of a privately held Shipping Agency, basically babysitters for ships when they come in to U.S. and Canadian ports. Ships/Commerce don't stop moving so at it 24/7. Thus my enjoyment of 3D games to take breaks from the day to day, in my recliner with a 360 controller.
My early days, was heavy in to "Basic" and had the first Casio programmable calculator, a Tandy 1000, and an Osborne...
My user name, real creative, my initials, and avatar is a stuffed doll my daughter gave me that she won at a carnival when she was 6.
Yes, I watch this forum as much as I can to keep up and await the fixes that you guys take the time and effort to do.
A pleasure, and Thank You.
From Tampa Bay, Florida
I'm 34
I work in IT
I used have a SNES. I started PC gaming in 1997 and haven't looked back. Been gaming since the Voodoo 2 days
I'm an nVidia fan now, and started gaming in 3D in 2009 with 3D Vision Discover with a CRT. Then switched to 3D TV play in 2012 I believe until finally buying an ASUS 3D monitor a few months ago. I Love 3D vision but I feel it needs support from nVidia.
I believe the main issue with nVidia is to try demo it to the masses since you can't show it on a video or Screenshot by itself. I used to Work a Best Buy and really tried to get this some exposure by asking management to set up a display computer with 3D vision. However, it never materialized :(.
I want to personally thank all of the contributors of http://helixmod.blogspot.com/ whom without them 3D vision would have died a long time ago. Thank you all for keeping this amazing feature alive.
Ha ha, yep...that game did it for me in terms of consuming my time. Chaos Strikes Back was real hard to find at that time and I did get lucky one day in Toronto where a small PC shop had a copy.
Two things are clearly memorable for me. 1.) The giggler creature that would steal your shit. It took me awhile to figure out why the hell I was losing my gear. Finally when I killed one, ah, there is where my shit went...lol
2.) Desperation in a fight when cornered. I would throw everything I had in my inventory at the enemy and I'll never forget killing a monster with a sliver of health left and it was a screamer slice that killed it. Even the food in that game had damage points!
Too funny....
You probably know this already, Legend of Grimrock has brought back this old style of game and there are two mods that are remakes of DM and DM - Chaos Strike Backs. The author has created custom tile sets and used the portraits from the Hall of Champions...pretty dam close to the originals. Also plays great in 3D which is the icing on the cake!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=104308534
My Name is Marcus, 40, from the middle of Germany.
I work for the local city administration IT.
First contact to video games in the early 80´s
In the end 90´s I start with 3D Modeling.
Got my 3D Vision two years ago and now, I cant play w/o.
We know from what we talking, 3D Vision is the best immersion we can get in Videogame and its a shame, that we only a fringe group that fix games by ourselfes.
I've only discovered 3D gaming in 2011 (had heard about 3D possibilities, finally 3D Vision 2 + VG278H's lightboost seemed to address the last big caveats), but I've been gaming for what seems like all my life.
I was lucky to discover Helixmod and convergence quite quickly, since all it took was to take a look at almost any game and then google "why is 3D broken in my game". Ah, the early days, when we thought that just because Nvidia invented such an awesome technology, any game would work with it flowlessly, right?
Anyway, thanks to the 3D community, since 2011 I've been able to live through what I could call the golden age of my gaming years.
BIG THANKS TO YOU, GUYS!!!
If 3D Vision dies off, as it seems to be doing, I will probably abandon gaming alltogether. If it gets jumpstarted into a VR age, and the developers support it (although from all the comments so far, VR does not produce the same toyfication in 3rd person games, and seems suited more to 1st person or simulators - thus not replacing 3D Vision at all) then probably I've got more great 3D gaming years left. :-)
Happy gaming, everyone!
The bigger "Nvidia 3D Vision Gamers"
or the smaller "Recommended 3D Vision Games"
I'm idling in both for the time being.
46 vs 274 members
In the smaller Group almost everybody has officer rights and with Helifax as the admin.
Feel free to join the chatrooom of your choice.
edit: finally there is "3D Vision Games" with 17 members.
Thanks to everybody using my assembler it warms my heart.
To have a critical piece of code that everyone can enjoy!
What more can you ask for?
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Seems like ages since I got 3D Vision, firstly with a Dell 21" CRT (and lots of ghosting) and for about the last 4-5 years I've been using the Asus VG236HE which I'm very happy with overall.
Just upgraded to a GTX970 and this is the first GPU I've had that could run the latest games in stereo. Previously I've been stuck with games that were a few years old due to having mid-range GPUs (260, 460, 560ti and 660).
Some highlights of my stereo 3D gaming life - Kingdoms of Amalur*, Trine 1/2*, Skyrim*, Oblivion, Dead Space 1 & 2*, Assassin's Creed, Batman Arkham Asylum & City*, Thief, Thief 2, Far Cry, Far Cry 3*, Dishonored*, Fallout 3 & New Vegas, Dark Souls 1 & 2*, Left 4 Dead. Many of those were fixed by the awesome people in this small community, so a huge thank you to them.
Looking forward to dividing into Shadows of Mordor, Lord of the Fallen, Assassin's Creed 2 (and beyond), Alien Isolation and many more in the near future...
(* games that were particular stunning in stereo 3D)
I'm 42 years old
I have lived in the German-speaking part of Switzerland all my life, though I was born in Croatia
I went to commercial school and was determined to work in the gaming industry afterwards, so I started in marketing at SEGA's Swiss distributor, during the Saturn era.
Next up was a 9 year stint at Electronic Arts, before founding my own distribution company and representing Konami for 5 years.
My profile name and picture hint at me being a DC Comics nerd and a fan of Konami's original Contra, published as "Gryzor" by Ocean Software in Europe at the time.
If there's anything I love more than games, it's probably pop music and we've had plenty of timeless tunes in the '80s :)
Speaking of timeless... classic 2D games entice me at least as much as the newly discovered 3D stuff, so I enjoy me some GroovyMAME with a proper arcade joystick setup on a lag-free CRT TV.
I first got hooked by Nintendo's Game&Watch version of Donkey Kong in 1982, then played Time Pilot on a mate's Commodore 64. Got an Amiga as a birthday present and soon drooled over the Mega Drive and Super Famicom, before buying my first PC.
Like Fred and Russell, I fondly remember Dungeon Master, as it left the same, lasting impression on me too ^^
Got into 3D only a year ago, after reading a few comments from bedazzled 3D Vision users and figuring that they probably have a point.
Like most of you, I now have a hard time playing polygon-based stuff in 2D, because the artistic level of detail is totally lost, unless you get to view it in proper 3D.
Dragon Age: Inquisition in 3D is pretty much my vanilla medieval fantasy come true, so I'm forever grateful to Mike, Octavian and bo3b for fixing it.
I'm not very active on the forum for the last months, but almost everyday watching around.
I started in this with the first 3D vision Kit (Samsung monitor) seven yaers ago. These days i use a Benq xl2411t, and an Optoma hd67 proyector. But my last toy acquired is a vr headset for mobile devices (lakento MVR), and i have to tell it's amazing for the low cost.
I want to express my gratitude to this small community for keep me informed for the last years.
Although 3d vision is almost dead, stereoscopic 3D has turn in a important "thing" of my entertainment, and obviosly, a part of my life.
Hope this go on xD
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I don't have any type of degree or anything like that (or even a job) as I was severely depressed as a teenager (chemical imbalances), and made some poor choices. I did however, have amazing parents and especially my (late) father who taught and showed me how to be a good husband and father. I am a stay-home dad for 12 years now and have 4 kids (I've probably changed 10,000 diapers in my life lol)and an amazing wife who supports all my expensive interests. And here they are.
My three passions are my family, playing guitars, and of course playing video games. The first game I played was Frogger on a Colecovision that my uncle owned, when I was 3 years old and immediately I was hooked. My first actual owned console was the NES, and I've owned pretty much all consoles since, and still have them all. But, my first foray into PC gaming started at the tender age of 5 as my dad was a PC enthusiast. I used to play these education games on his IBM 8088 LOL. But he was always upgrading and buying new machines, so by the time I was about 11 years old, I was already building PCs. I remember wanting to learn how to use MS-DOS so I asked my dad to teach me. Well he did what I think now is the best thing: handed me the DOS manual and said "read it son". HAHA! Needless to say, I learned DOS inside and out, made my own bootup menus and configs and the awesome gaming commenced! But that also taught me that, if I need to know something, I have the ability to seek it out! Because of that I also taught myself to play a mean guitar which is my other big hobby. :)
3d Vision.. Well, back in 2009 I got my new GTX 285 video card, updated my drivers, and noticed a new setting in the NV control panel I hadn't seen before. Set up seteroscopic 3d. My mind went.. wha?? I had always loved anaglyph 3d movies and owned quite a few dvd's. So I went into that setting and turned it on, found a perfect red/blue paper glasses match in one of my daughters barbie dvds (LOL). My favorite game was Oblivion at the time, so I started it up in discover mode. BLOWN AWAY IMMEDIATELY!! I couldn't believe just the added detail revealed in every little object in the game! Regardless of the red/blue off colors. I spent the next few hours messing with depth and convergence settings and going crazy with them. After that I researched what else Nvidia had to offer. Well suffice to say, I got up from my desk, went to my wife and told her my next big gaming purchase was the Samsung 2233 and 3d vision kit bar none. Been loving 3d Vision ever since, and have since upgraded to Vision 2 and all that stuff. I also have a Nintendo 3DS (love it!!) and a 3dtv for watching 3d blu-rays, and my family loves to watch them, and my wife loves to play Guild Wars 2 in 3d on my computer. :)
I don't post too often, but I read these forums every single day, sometimes multiple times a day. I have a HUGE THANK YOU to all you geniuses who make fixes for games! I know that if stereo 3d gaming were to die off, I'd still play games, but admittedly would seriously miss the epic immersion provided by the, what should be obvious to the human race, use of BOTH eyes in a game!
Anyway.. cheers dudes! :D
AsRock X58 Extreme6 mobo
Intel Core-i7 950 @ 4ghz
12gb Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600
ASUS DirectCU II GTX 780 3gb
Corsair TX 950w PSU
NZXT Phantom Red/Black Case
3d Vision 1 w/ Samsung 2233rz Monitor
3d Vision 2 w/ ASUS VG278HE Monitor
My name's Artur and I live a bit north of Toronto and am from Canada.
I'm currently 19 years old and am doing my kinesiology degree at york university hoping to get into med school. Although I do like coding a lot and also like puzzles, fixing dx 11 games has a really, really steep learning curve to be of any use which is why I've put it on backburner for now.
Got into gaming seriously 3 years ago, tapered off a bit a year ago and now only prefer to play 3d games when I can. I was seriously impressed at the anaglyph 3d and how it completely changed the way games are played and seen. Which caused me to eventually get a 3D projector which I love.
Also have a very bad habit of graphic whoring, just plain out refuse to play a game that looks bad unless it's had a lot of praise from people whose opinion I value.
I am 36 year old and live in Göteborg Sweden at the moment. Worked in various IT jobs (Service , Suppot , Eye tracking , you name it).
We (Me , my big brother en little sister) didn't get a Nintendo NES but got a Commodore PC-I with a whooping 4.77mhz 8088 processor and 512kn RAM for sinteklaas , a Dutch holiday. Those were the days :) I went out of bed in the middle of the night and took thing apart to see what was inside that little box. Mom gave me hell the next day and made me fix it... took me three days but got it worked again and have since that faithful night been hooked PC hardware and gaming ever since. 3D vision came in my life about a year ago and love every second of it.
Hello to you guys and thanks to everyone who is putting in effort keeping S3D Alive !