3D Vision Blog

Thanks to Acer and one of their local distributors today I was able to get a hold of a test sample of the new Acer GD245HQ 120Hz 3D-capable Gaming Display that has just arrived. It will take another month before the actual units for sale are available on my local the market, but I’ll be ready for when that happens and you’ll also have more information if you are interested in this particular display for 2D gaming at 120Hz or for Stereoscopic 3D gaming with a pair of 3D Vision active shutter glasses from Nvidia. Expect my first impressions and an in depth review in the next days and meanwhile you can take a look at the unboxing video above. Also feel free to ask anything you want me to check or test on the monitor, of course besides the obvious things like input lag and ghosting that I’m going to check anyway… ;)

Earlier this month the first 3D Vision compatible laptop – the Asus G51J 3D started appearing on the market and it also seems that in the last few days in Asia the first Acer GD245HQ 3D Vision ready monitors are also starting to become available. This however rises one interesting issue that is related to the 3D Vision drivers that add the support for these products and it seems that there is some confusion going on around with people having trouble and not knowing what drivers to use to make their new hardware work. So here goes a little clarification on the topic…

For ASUS G51J 3D laptops there is a separate 3D vision driver available based on the normal 195.62 driver version. You can find it already available on Nvidia’s website in the drivers download section in a section called 3D Vision ASUS Laptop Driver that is also available in a separate form of CD v1.17.

The situation with the Acer GD245HQ monitor is quite similar and this is making a bit of a confusion. Both the 195.62 and 195.81 drivers for 3D Vision do not offer support for the Acer, you’ll need to download the driver version 195.66 that will add the support for the Acer GD245HQ monitor and this driver is also only available as a full package release.

- To Download NVIDA 3D Vision CD v1.17 driver for Asus Laptop (32/64-bit)…
- To Download NVIDA 3D Vision CD v1.18 driver for Acer Monitor (32/64-bit)…