3D Vision Surround drivers are out!

[Tamlin]

Stolen from tineras post as a punishment for not reading sticky before creating thread.... :twisted:

Since no one else has made a new thread, I decided to. Yes, there is bezel management. :rockout

NVidia 3D Surround Subforum:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=210

System Requirements and Hardware Compatibility:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3dv-system-requirements-surround-technology.html

Supported Display Modes
http://www.nvidia.com/object/LO-94912.html

Main 3D Vision Surround Page:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-surround-technology.html

Driver Version:
258.69

Release Notes:
New in Release 258.69

Adds support for NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround technology. Learn more about this technology including the hardware and software requirements here.
Includes numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release notes on the documentation tab for information about the key bug fixes in this release.
Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.
New in Release 256 Drivers

Adds support for Blu-ray 3D with NVIDIA 3D Vision technology. Learn more about the hardware and software requirements here.
Increases performance for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs in several PC games. The following are examples of some of the most significant improvements measured with GeForce GTX 480. Results will vary depending on your GPU and system configuration:
Up to 14% in Aliens vs. Predator (1920x1200 noAA/AF – Tessellation on)
Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham Asylum (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF PhysX=High)
Up to 5% in BattleForge (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Very High settings)
Up to 5% in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF)
Up to 4% in Crysis: Warhead (1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Enthusiast setting)
Up to 24% in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (1920x1200 no AA/AF)
Up to 9% in Far Cry 2 (2560x1600 8xAA/16xAF)
Up to 25% in Just Cause 2 (2560x1600 no AA/AF - Concrete Jungle)
Up to 7% in Metro 2033 (1920x1200 no AA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
Up to 40% in Metro 2033 with SLI ((1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF – Tessellation on)
Up to 8% in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (1920x1200 no AA/AF – Day)
Up to 110% in Stone Giant with SLI (2650x1600 – Tessellation on, DoF on)
Up to 6% in The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena (2560x1600 no AA/AF)
Up to 9% in Unigine: Tropics (2560x1600 no AA/AF – OpenGL)
Up to 5% in 3DMark Vantage (Performance and Extreme Presets)
Up to 19% with Transparency AA (1920x1200 4xTrSS – measured in Crysis)
Upgrades PhysX System Software to version 9.10.0223.
Adds support for OpenGL 4.0 for GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs.
Adds support for CUDA Toolkit 3.1 which includes significant performance increases for double precision math operations. See CUDA Zone for more details.
Adds support for new extreme Antialiasing modes for 3-way SLI PCs, including up to SLI48x AA for GeForce 200 series GPUs and up to SLI96x AA for GeForce GTX 400 series GPUs.
Adds support for a new ‘Quality’ mode for NVIDIA’s Ambient Occlusion control panel feature.
Adds a new NVIDIA Control Panel setup page for SLI and PhysX for ultimate control over multi-gpu configurations.
Adds a new NVIDIA Control Panel feature for ultimate control over CUDA GPUs, allowing the user to effectively choose which GPU will power each CUDA application.
Additional Information:

Installs HD Audio driver version 1.0.10.1 (for supported GPUs).
Supports the new GPU-accelerated features in Adobe CS5.
Supports GPU-acceleration for smoother online HD videos with Adobe Flash 10.1. Learn more here.
Supports the new version of MotionDSP's video enhancement software, vReveal, which adds support for HD output. NVIDIA customers can download a free version of vReveal that supports up to SD output here.
Supports DirectCompute with Windows 7 and GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenCL 1.0 ( Open Computing Language) for all GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports OpenGL 3.3 for GeForce 8-series and later GPUs.
Supports single GPU and NVIDIA SLI technology on DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 11, and OpenGL, including 3-way SLI, Quad SLI, and SLI support on SLI-certified Intel X58-based motherboards.
Supports GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring by installing NVIDIA System Tools software.

[Delphium]

1 day after I rip out my nvidia cards and install a single watercooled 5870 E6, typical.

May have to try these out on the girlfriends pc instead x]

EDIT: 151mb version of the driver (version 258.69 BETA) instead of the 354mb cd, for those that wont be running 3D (Vista/Win7 64bit).

[bowenac]

Woot woot, lets see some numbers people, looking for GTX470 SLI @ 5760X1200. Also is there bezel compensation?

Also would like to see tri sli GTX260's haha. One card for each monitor.

[Tamlin]

Woot woot, lets see some numbers people, looking for GTX470 SLI @ 5760X1200. Also is there bezel compensation?

Also would like to see tri sli GTX260's haha. One card for each monitor.

There is bezel compensation. :)

And, another thing you'll love:

That leads to the really big upside to all of this and that is the fact that GTX 480 SLI scales incredibly well and all that pixel pushing power is realized when you start turning on all the eye candy at 5760x1080 resolution.

http://hardocp.com/article/2010/06/29/nvidia_3d_vision_surround_experience/5

[H] review is up already! :rockout

[Delphium]

Anyone know if you have to switch display profiles between extended and span mode like you do with eyefinity, which even after having the card for 2 days is already getting old having to switch profiles all the time.

Would be interesting to know how seemless it is to go from 3 desktop monitors in extended mode, to 3 spand monitors when gaming.
This is one of the things I have liked about SoftTH that all monitors are extended and the game then spans 3 screens fairly seemlessly, least no change of display profiles each time.

[bowenac]

Anyone know if you have to switch display profiles between extended and span mode like you do with eyefinity, which even after having the card for 2 days is already getting old having to switch profiles all the time.

Would be interesting to know how seemless it is to go from 3 desktop monitors in extended mode, to 3 spand monitors when gaming.
This is one of the things I have liked about SoftTH that all monitors are extended and the game then spans 3 screens fairly seemlessly, least no change of display profiles each time.

Not really sure how that would work. When in extended it treats each monitor as a single monitor, so say a res of 5760X1200 I doubt would even show up as an option.

All you have to do is create a shortcut it only takes a couple seconds. I don't see how that is getting old.

[Delphium]

All you have to do is create a shortcut it only takes a couple seconds. I don't see how that is getting old.

Im still new to the ati drivers having used nvidia for the past decade, I just noticed the hotkeys option, which is a few clicks less, looking now to see if the drivers will automaticly switch to a different profile when loading a game instead and then back to extended mode when it finishes, this would be more ideal.

This is why I wonder about nvidia's solution, are there profiles the user needs to switch between, or are there automatic profiles that do the switching? :)

The more seemless the switching, the better :)

At worse I am now thinking of replacing game shortcuts with .bat files that switch to span mode, launch game, when game exits, it switches back to expanded mode.

[bowenac]

[quote]All you have to do is create a shortcut it only takes a couple seconds. I don't see how that is getting old.

Im still new to the ati drivers having used nvidia for the past decade, I just noticed the hotkeys option, which is a few clicks less, looking now to see if the drivers will automaticly switch to a different profile when loading a game instead and then back to extended mode when it finishes, this would be more ideal.

This is why I wonder about nvidia's solution, are there profiles the user needs to switch between, or are there automatic profiles that do the switching? :)

The more seemless the switching, the better :)

At worse I am now thinking of replacing game shortcuts with .bat files that switch to span mode, launch game, when game exits, it switches back to expanded mode.

Well if you get that working let me know, it does sound like a good idea.

[Skid]

Does this work on Vista? If not I'm going to be pretty pissed at NVidia.

[Delphium]

Does this work on Vista? If not I'm going to be pretty pissed at NVidia.

No Vista im afraid, something to do with the WDDM layer I am lead to beleive.

[matrices]

Just crossposting to give people here information:







2xGTX 470 on water, 800 core, 1950 memory.

I could only tinker for a half-hour before bailing for work so I only had the time to try BC2, World at War, and Serious Sam HD. Everything seemed to work, though I had the wrong version of Widescreenfixer so World at War was stretched out like mad.

I averaged 45-60 FPS (Vsync and triple buffering on) in BC2 single player on the jungle map when it came to the actual shooting and fighting and smoke, but in the part preceding that, where you maneuver a boat through some rapids, the FPS tanked into the teens. Probably something to do with all the effects of water sloshing around. This was using 5760x1200 at 4xMSAA, everything max.

Serious Sam was unplayable at 8xAA, everything max, but I don't know what kind of 8xAA mode it tried to enable since that option doesn't even exist anymore in Nvidia drivers. Going to 4xAA smoothed things out considerably and I got 50 to 60 FPS.

I'm glad Nvidia has finally gotten this thing out the door. I went with Nvidia because there was no way I was going to play on three monitors with only one GPU, so the SLI requirement was a bonus, not a problem, for me, since it meant that Nvidia had to get multi-GPU Surround right, whereas ATI's implementation seems hit or miss. The SLI scaling hopefully proves itself superior to CF even moreso than in regular gaming, especially with the extra video RAM. And finally, yes, no Display Port.

Can't wait to go home and give it a more thorough run. Great to have coincided with the Steam sale!

[Skid]

[quote]Does this work on Vista? If not I'm going to be pretty pissed at NVidia.

No Vista im afraid, something to do with the WDDM layer I am lead to beleive.

I did see that post, but if thats the case how come TH2G doesn't have a problem?

[tepescovir]

can anyone confirm that vsync works properly with nvidia surround? vsync with ati dosent work with eyefinity or trys to cap the framerate at 120 instead of 60 for 60hz monitors.

[MountedConcepts]

All I need is a new Video Card Now!

[Delphium]

Well if you get that working let me know, it does sound like a good idea.

Seems to work :)
You need to work out all your profiles first including making a desktop shortcut, I then simply take the path in the shortcut and copy it into a .bat file.

Code: Select all

"C:Program Files (x86)ATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-StaticCLI.exe" Start Load profilename="span"

   "U:gamesSteamSteamAppscommonleft 4 dead 2left4dead2.exe"

   "C:Program Files (x86)ATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-StaticCLI.exe" Start Load profilename="extend"

   "C:Program Files (x86)ATI TechnologiesATI.ACECore-StaticCLI.exe" Start Load profilename="extend"

When switching back to expand mode I need to do it twice for it to set back correctly otherwise the outside 2 monitors are switched around :doh .

I did see that post, but if thats the case how come TH2G doesn't have a problem?

Its hardware driven.

[tineras]

:oops: Whoops! I am very embarassed. You are right. I did not read the sticky at the top. I got so accustomed to coming to this subform and bypassing the sticky threads looking for new posts. :doh

If my tiny brain can help it, I won't do that again!

[Skid]

[quote]I did see that post, but if thats the case how come TH2G doesn't have a problem?

Its hardware driven.

Yes but its still NVidia and Windows that drives the 5040x1050 to it, the TH2G is effectively seen as a monitor by the OS and drivers, the TH2G really doesn't do any graphics work it just splits the image.

[wazoo]

Working PERFECTLY with a pair of 280GTX's with three HP LP2065's (1600x1200).

I took my TH2Go Digital out of the mix and it is now going up for sale.

The bezel management works fantastically. It created bezel adjusted resolutions for the entire spectrum of resolution options.

For example, I've been playing Metro 2033 at 3840x1024 with my TH2G0 (averaging in the 40's on DX9 with settings to High) and bezel management on. This, of course, made me lose the sides of the picture on the outside monitors. Now, however, with the new drivers, I have not only 3840x1024 available in-game, but also 4015x1024 which corrects for the bezels AND maintains the edges of my picture! Great stuff! (BTW - I tried running at 5019x1200 but Metro dropped me into the 20's making it unplayable for me).

I'm so far VERY pleased with this new feature.

[MaxDarklighter]

+1 to vsync quastion!
And adition I am interested in DX1011 compability.

And the main quastion: if it's K to throw TH2GO in a can and start using nVidia surround? Or is there some problems still in nVidia Surround drivers?

[bowenac]

Working PERFECTLY with a pair of 280GTX's with three HP LP2065's (1600x1200).

I took my TH2Go Digital out of the mix and it is now going up for sale.

The bezel management works fantastically. It created bezel adjusted resolutions for the entire spectrum of resolution options.

For example, I've been playing Metro 2033 at 3840x1024 with my TH2G0 (averaging in the 40's on DX9 with settings to High) and bezel management on. This, of course, made me lose the sides of the picture on the outside monitors. Now, however, with the new drivers, I have not only 3840x1024 available in-game, but also 4015x1024 which corrects for the bezels AND maintains the edges of my picture! Great stuff! (BTW - I tried running at 5019x1200 but Metro dropped me into the 20's making it unplayable for me).

I'm so far VERY pleased with this new feature.

Great to hear.

Lets see some more numbers people.