Originally posted by: nRollo
Originally posted by: Extelleron
Regardless though, it doesn't matter how good the effect is if it doesn't work in a large number of gamers or it has problems in a lot of games. And that is what I am getting out of the early reviews. There are only a few games where this effect is really executed perfectly without too many rendering errors or horrible performance.
Could you link to these reviews?
You see, I'm actually using it and I've played about 20 games now and found problems with very few of them.
I've also found the performance to be very good, as you undoubtedly would with 280 Sli.
For one, the Anandtech review.
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In many games we tested there were some serious drawbacks. Even games that NVIDIA rated the experience as "excellent" we felt were subpar at best.
Fallout 3 had some ghosting effects that we couldn't fix, and it just didn't feel right for example. Games with an excellent rating most of the time still require reducing some settings to a lower level like FarCry 2 where the lower quality shadows really take away from the experience. If anyone is going out of their way to buy a 120Hz LCD panel, a high end NVIDIA graphics card and a $200 bundle of active shutter glasses, they are not going to be happy when told to reduce any quality settings. But thats just how it is right now.
Other games, like Crysis Warhead, that received a rating of "good" were nothing if not unplayable with stereoscopic effects. Even turning shadows, shaders, postprocessing, and motion blur and using NVIDIA's stereo crosshairs didn't help when there was any fire, smoke, explosion, or water anywhere around. When those effects pop up (which is all the time)
everything goes to hell and you can't focus on anything. It just destroys the experience and you get reduced image quality. A great package."
I am sure that the effect is great when it works and that if I ever get to see it that I will be impressed. But that doesn't stop the fact that this product is not ready for mainstream use, it is not ready for the kind of "plug it in and play" kind of gameplay. It is, right now, for people on the bleeding edge who want to try the newest toy. It's not something that you are going to be able to utilize when you pop in the newest game on launch day and expect to play without issues. Someday, when the cost comes down, the product becomes widely available, and the drivers improve substantially, perhaps it will become a reasonable product.