3D Gaming Mobility

Anyone play 3-D games on their notebook? If so, how is it?

I know the new Call of Duty Black Ops is 3-D ready. I only know of a few 3-D laptops. Asus, Toshiba, and Lenovo make some.

I will be investing in a notebook within the next 2 months, so I'm wondering if I should future-proof myself by buying a 3-D notebook.

I would really like to know about people's experience with 3-D notebooks, thanks!

 

Future proof? Errr using 3D on laptops will make your GPU obselete immeidately.

 

Lolwut? I play Borderlands regularly on my laptop in 3D.

Keep in mind though that you'll need a 3D monitor or projector (120Hz). I use the Acer H5360. Also you'll need the NVIDIA 3D Vision glasses with the emitter.

This is unless of course you're getting something like the G51J-3D, which already has a 3D screen (albeit only 15.6") and comes with glasses (I think). Otherwise a regular old NVIDIA notebook will still let you play in 3D via HDMI.

 

There's a quick fix that lets you use any monitor.

 

I said this before, the implementation in 3D notebooks have come far in a short period of time with integration of that huge emitter in screens which is impressive. I would recommend the 1080p Asus G73JW-3DE its the only laptop that currently supports 1900x1080 resolution in 3D.

This technology is implemented very well and should be taken like your getting something that pushed technology forward when buying a 3D notebook like the asus because its implemented so so well. I Would very much agree your future proofing your self with a great buy such as the asus G73jw-3de.

 

Doesn't doubling the FPS kill performance? Wouldn't you have to render twice as many frames? So if you got 60FPS on a game you would then get 30FPS? (assuming that there's no framelimiter when you get 60)

 

Using Nvidia 3D, or any stereoscophic 3D solution cuts performance around half. So no, I do not recommend a 3D gaming laptop right now, unless you plan on using it for other stuff.

 

Really? If so, I'll hold off on buying the Viewsonic 22" monitor for games.

Or are you talking about using NVIDIA's 3D Vision Discover (with red/cyan glasses)? I used that until last month but finally switched to 120Hz 3D Vision because of the complete lack of accurate colour in the former case.

 

Even a desktop 580GTX will be bent to its knees when playing modern games in 3D with max settings and full HD resolution, 3D on laptop doesn't make much of a sense, you have to turn the settings and resolution all the way down to get a playable frame rate, which defeats the point of 3D gaming already, which is a more immersive experience, it's not going to be more immersive when you are looking at ugly, low definition models and textures. I would personally rather have the settings and resolution at max without 3D than playing on 3D with everything on low.