| Author | Message | ||
     mchild Rating: N/A |
Which 3d system is the best way to go? Asus video card and their glasses, or the I-art eye3d premium glasses and existing video card. I wish someone would answer this question once and for all. Which one is king? Thank you. | ||
| M.H. Rating: N/A |
I-art eye3d premium. More euniversal + comfortable. | ||
| mchild Rating: N/A |
But what about 3D video? Is there a way to view non(less)flicker 3D video with i-art like the Asus does? | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
Don't confuse glasses and boards. ASUS boards are the best for stereo. Eye3D Premium is the best consumer glasses system. If you combine them both you can do anything. The ASUS glasses are O.K., but have limited compatibility. What bugs me the most about the ASUS on-board glasses controller is the below average sync-accuracy, which often causes dark stripes, double-images or flicker at the top or bottom of the screen. This effect may vary from board to board and from graphics mode to graphics mode. I've tested the 3800 and the 6600. Concerning video it depends on the video source. For 3D-VHS tapes an ASUS deluxe board with video-input and ASUS 3D-video player is optimal. For above-below format MPEG/AVI 3D-video a sync-doubler is required which the ASUS-controllers doesn't have. Christoph | ||
| kb Rating: N/A |
I posted a repy to this topic just yesterday. Curiously it disappeared, or was it even made it here. Testing. KB | ||
| Tom Rating: N/A |
Get your eye3D Premium at http://www.demensional.com | ||
| mchild Rating: N/A |
So, to get the best of both worlds one should get the ASUS board AND: 1. Just get a wired pair of eye3D glasses and plug them into the ASUS card or... 2. Get the whole eye3D system and patch the video from the ASUS card into the eye3D controller and use eye3D glasses? Sorry to be so stupid, but I just want to make sure that I'm understanding everything correctly. Thanks. | ||
| kbta Rating: N/A |
You can actually use #2 and the Asus pair together, if you got eye3D premium and Asus deluxe you end up with 3 pairs, all would work simultaneously: 1 wireless, and 2 wired. The one from Asus is wired and plug direct to its input on card, the wired one from Eye3d plug in its transmitter which is also used to communicate with the Eye3D wireless. Just got my Eye3D premium and all 3 pairs work for me. KB | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
Any of the 3 mentioned combinations work, but in my experience some wired glasses plugged into the Eye3D-Premium controller gives the best sync-accuracy. Christoph | ||
| Mike Massee Rating: N/A |
Christoph, you said this: > The ASUS glasses are O.K., but have limited > compatibility. What bugs me the most about the > ASUS on-board glasses controller is the below > average sync-accuracy, which often causes dark > stripes, double-images or flicker at the top or > bottom of the screen Is this the ASUS board or the ASUS glasses causing this? If it's the board, why then above that do you say that the ASUS board is the best one to have? Are you saying that the ASUS board with the I-art glasses will not have the inaccurate sync problem? I now have the I-Art glasses and am having a terrible time with my Voodoo5. Where can I buy the ASUS board? | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
The compatibility and quality of a stereo-system is determined by several factors, which are: VGA-chipset VGA-board brand glasses-controller glasses monitor 3D-driver Obvioulsy there are infinite combinations. The ASUS boards are the most compatible, because it supports all 3D-drivers on the market: ASUS, Wicked3D, VRCaddy, Revelator. Personally I like the ASUS driver and it only works on ASUS boards. The glasses-controller is another story. You can use the onboard controller of the ASUS or connect some other glasses-controller externally. From my experience the i-Art controllers are more accurate, but the ASUS-onboard controller may have improved. If you already own the i-Art glasses you can buy an ASUS Pure board, which has no glasses and video connectors, but is way less expensive. The problems with your Voodoo5 is a 3d-driver problem. Get the latest version of the Wicked3D driver. Use the 3dfx reference driver as a basis. Check the support forum on the i-Art website. You can also give the VRCaddyMe driver from http://www.vrstandard.com/ a try. Christoph | ||
| John Rating: N/A |
I have a Voodoo4 board and i-art's 4-1. I am way pleased with the combo. I have a monitor that will do 1600x1200 at 120hz. The picture quality at high resolutions are great. Granted you lose half of your vertical resolution, when you play at the 1600x1200 it's 1600x600. But there is very little frame rate degradation. I did try the VRCaddy drivers that do page-flipping yesterday and they just couldn't compare to the sync-doubling of the Wicked3d drivers. So if your going to make the investment in the i-art system I would recommend keeping the Voodoo5, at least for the time being. Also most of the games out there support Glide which is a 3Dfx exclusive API, and quite frankly it rocks. John | ||
| John Rating: N/A |
By the way. Kenny over at Dimensional .com is great to deal with and very helpful if you have any problems at all. John |
