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ATI Radeon Rant - No Stereo 3D Support
ATI Radeon Rant - No Stereo 3D Support
Why is it that the most expensive video boards on the market , ATI, have zero support for true stereo 3D graphics? You spend $300-$400 and then find out there are no stereo 3D drivers support of any kind. NVidia has released dozens of drivers for true stereo 3D. In fact, it's well known in the 3D groups that if you want to do stereo 3D you almost have to get an NVidia graphics card. You can go on all you want about few people using stereo 3D, or that there are third party drivers you can buy, but what it comes down to is that the NVidia company is offering more features for less money. Having said that, I will say I think the ATI Radeons are great. But I think they are taking advantage of us, in fact ripping us off, by not offering a 3D stereo driver for the Radeon cards. My next video card will be an NVidia unless ATI resolves the problem. P.S. What all this means is that if your going to use 3D shutter glasses, VR HMD's (Virtual Reality Head mounted displays), or other stereoscopic devices you should buy an NVidia card because ATI gives no support at all for stereo 3D. It's ashamed. |
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... ATI Radeon Rant - No Stereo 3D Support Why is it that the most expensive video boards on the market , ATI, have zero support for true stereo 3D graphics? You spend $300-$400 and then find out there are no stereo 3D drivers support of any kind. NVidia has released dozens of drivers for true stereo 3D. In fact, it's well known in the 3D groups that if you want to do stereo 3D you almost have to get an NVidia graphics card. You can go on all you want about few people using stereo 3D, or that there are third party drivers you can buy, but what it comes down to is that the NVidia company is offering more features for less money. Having said that, I will say I think the ATI Radeons are great. But I think they are taking advantage of us, in fact ripping us off, by not offering a 3D stereo driver for the Radeon cards. My next video card will be an NVidia unless ATI resolves the problem. P.S. What all this means is that if your going to use 3D shutter glasses, VR HMD's (Virtual Reality Head mounted displays), or other stereoscopic devices you should buy an NVidia card because ATI gives no support at all for stereo 3D. It's ashamed. So buy an NVidia card. ATi knows perfectly well that the revenue and sales they may lose from not having 3D software is minimal - might even be less than the cost of developing it! - so they're unlikely to bother. So vote with your wallet. You think ATi cares? ;-) patrickp |
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:53:44 +0100
"patrickp" - take five to email me wrote: wrote in message ... ATI Radeon Rant - No Stereo 3D Support Why is it that the most expensive video boards on the market , ATI, have zero support for true stereo 3D graphics? You spend $300-$400 and then find out there are no stereo 3D drivers support of any kind. NVidia has released dozens of drivers for true stereo 3D. In fact, it's well known in the 3D groups that if you want to do stereo 3D you almost have to get an NVidia graphics card. You can go on all you want about few people using stereo 3D, or that there are third party drivers you can buy, but what it comes down to is that the NVidia company is offering more features for less money. Having said that, I will say I think the ATI Radeons are great. But I think they are taking advantage of us, in fact ripping us off, by not offering a 3D stereo driver for the Radeon cards. My next video card will be an NVidia unless ATI resolves the problem. P.S. What all this means is that if your going to use 3D shutter glasses, VR HMD's (Virtual Reality Head mounted displays), or other stereoscopic devices you should buy an NVidia card because ATI gives no support at all for stereo 3D. It's ashamed. So buy an NVidia card. ATi knows perfectly well that the revenue and sales they may lose from not having 3D software is minimal - might even be less than the cost of developing it! - so they're unlikely to bother. So vote with your wallet. You think ATi cares? ;-) Personally, I got a board that supported that crap many years ago and played with it for a while. Decided that it was pretty much a worthless gimmick and it sits on a shelf somewhere now. And that capability has never been a consideration since. If this was really important to a significant portion of the market, then somebody would have put it in the standards a long time ago. patrickp -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Umm, ok - will do!
wrote in message ... ATI Radeon Rant - No Stereo 3D Support Why is it that the most expensive video boards on the market , ATI, have zero support for true stereo 3D graphics? You spend $300-$400 and then find out there are no stereo 3D drivers support of any kind. NVidia has released dozens of drivers for true stereo 3D. In fact, it's well known in the 3D groups that if you want to do stereo 3D you almost have to get an NVidia graphics card. You can go on all you want about few people using stereo 3D, or that there are third party drivers you can buy, but what it comes down to is that the NVidia company is offering more features for less money. Having said that, I will say I think the ATI Radeons are great. But I think they are taking advantage of us, in fact ripping us off, by not offering a 3D stereo driver for the Radeon cards. My next video card will be an NVidia unless ATI resolves the problem. P.S. What all this means is that if your going to use 3D shutter glasses, VR HMD's (Virtual Reality Head mounted displays), or other stereoscopic devices you should buy an NVidia card because ATI gives no support at all for stereo 3D. It's ashamed. |
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