3D DOES Work With Nvidia Optimus!

You just have to connect to an hdmi 1.4 capable 3DTV as your PRIMARY/ONLY monitor using the hdmi output on the laptop. It won't work if your using the TV as a secondary display in extended mode. If you are playing a game that supports 3D Vision you don't have to enable anything beforehand, the pop-up alerting you to "turn on 3d glasses" from your TV will come up automatically. For EVERYTHING ELSE as far as I can tell though, you need to go into nVidia control panel and "enable stereoscopic 3d" manually. All this 3D terminology that nVidia throws around can be very confusing. When playing games you can turn 3d on by pressing CTRL+T, again if the game has "3D Vision" support it will alert you automatically. In my start menu I do have an option to "enable/disable 3D Vision" but this doesn't seem to do anything at all.

I was able to play 3D Blu-ray via TotalMediaTheatre 5 with lossless surround (bitstream) by selecting "original primary audio only" which now makes my lappy the place to go for 3D movies since the PS3 can't do lossless audio and 3D at the same time. I was UNABLE to get PowerDVD 9.6 to work...there was audio, but just a black screen/no video. List of 3D compatible games is HERE. Obviously unless you have a high end mobile gpu, 3d gaming is pointless. I am using a Plasma 3DTV, not a 3D LCD monitor so you can only do a max of 720p anyways (1280x720 @ 60FPS -OR- 1920x1080 @ 24FPS) under hdmi 1.4 spec. You would need a 120Hz monitor to get full 1080p (60Hz to each eye). I have the GT525m and was able to play Left4Dead2 fine but there seems to be a lot of ghosting/crosstalk. Mass Effect and Bad Company were pretty much unplayable though once 3d was enabled. I am gonna try out Gears of War and Halo 2 (if I could get Halo 2 to work on Windows 7 ugghh). At the very least I'm glad I got it working, and now I know more about nVidia 3D and how to use it when I eventually get my new gaming desktop.

nVidia 3D Vision - Term for any PC that is 3d capable with an nVidia GPU. 3D Vision is labelled on all compatible products (3DTV's, Monitors, Active-Shutter Glasses & Games). There are few games which have true "3D Vision" support.

nVidia 3DTV Play - Term for nVidia software that allows you to use 3D. Most of the games that don't have native 3D support are converted to 3D with this software. 3DTV play has to be enabled manually from the nVidia control panel under "stereoscopic 3d". Apparently in some circumstances you need to purchase this software? Only certain laptops come with it included.

nVidia 3D Vision Surround - Equivalent to ATI's Eyefinity, support for 3D Vision across three monitors with up to 1080p resolution on each monitor. Probably not gonna happen when using a notebook though just thought I'd list it if anyone was curious.

 

Does your laptop have a built-in 3d screen? Because optimus doesn't work with the 120hz screen; I'm pretty sure even if you made the tv your screen optimus still wouldn't apply.

Pretty much all of nvidia's latest gpus are 3d capable, you just need to buy the 3d kit.

 

The HDMI port is part of the dedicated graphics card, and as such any output from it is independent of the integrated card (which is not compatible with 3D Vision output). This is why, technically, HDMI output from a 3D Vision capable graphics card should work with a 120Hz screen, even on an Optimus capable computer.

 

True, but 3d via hdmi has been long determined...

And most nvidia gpus are 3d capable, it just a matter of them not having the juice to properly run 3d content.

optimus with a built-in 120hz screen is what I would like to see, and that won't be capable until ivy bridge at the earliest.

 

wasnt this what I said in the other thread that he made? find a I/O port that is wired directly to the dgpu so that the info wont pass in the igpu controller thus leading to no 3d content?

 

Tbh, you could probably even patch in the IGP so you could run 3d content at 60Hz instead of 120Hz. That way you'd be able to watch films just as you would normally, the only downside is that you'd never be able to get above 30Hz in-game frame rate.

Afaik, provided the connection to the GPU can handle the data rates the you should be fine with 3d. There's nothing "special" about 3d that defines it from standard content other than the frame rate.