3D Vision Blog

It seems that iZ3D has decided to phase out of their 3D hardware business and this means that they are going to cease selling iZ3D monitors and instead from now on will focus on the development of their 3D driver that will work with hardware from other vendors. Of course all owners of iZ3D displays do not need to worry as the support for the monitors will still continue to be available in the drivers in the future too. More details about that are available on iZ3D’s official blog post published today that is available here.

Meanwhile the company has made available a second release candidate (RC2) of their 3D driver version 1.11 with some fixes and improvements like for example the new ColorCode anaglyph output support and improved performance on Nvidia-based GPUs. The new iZ3D version 1.11 RC2 driver is available for download here.

As we know iZ3D is one of the software partners for the upcoming stereoscopic 3D support with shutter glasses produced by BitCauldron and compatible with ATI GPUs and working with 120Hz LCD monitors currently a territory reserved only for Nvidia’s 3D Vision. And while there is still no official word on when the complete solution will be available from ATI or actually AMD and their partners, we are already seeing some hints coming from iZ3D. Like for example the dedicated page with details about MSI All-in-One 3D PC that uses ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 video card and the apparently new and still kind of mysterious 120Hz Viewsonic 3D LCD Display that should work with both AMD (ATI) and Nvidia-based GPUs.

It has been a while now since iZ3D have last updated their drivers and since the iZ3D version 1.11 beta was first introduced. Now there is a fresh RC1 version of the 1.11 driver available for download that has some improvement and fixes along with new game profiles, maybe the most significant thing is the much better working now support for DirectX 10 games. Have in mind however that this is still a release candidate driver and not a final one, so there can be some other issues and some things still not working perfect. Unfortunately there is still not a word regarding the anticipated 120Hz shutter glasses support for the ATI-based GPUs, so the wait for that is still not over yet and ATI is probably gearing up for the end of the year holiday season availability and not the expected summer release, but we’ll have to wait and see.

- To download and try the newly released iZ3D 1.11 RC1 stereoscopic 3D driver….

Don’t ask me why I did not do this check earlier since I have the iZ3D monitor available for quite some time now, anyway here are a few comparison shots between the 22-inch iZ3D Monitor and the Samsung 2233RZ for which we already know that does not have any input lag. The iZ3D monitor is on the left and the Samsung is on the right on the photos below with both monitors connected to a single VGA output by using a DVI splitter cable as this is the right way to get correct results…

As you can see from the comparison photos there is very little to no difference between what is being displayed on both monitors at the same time. The first two photos show very slight shadow from the previous numbers being displayed, but that is most likely due to slower response time than to actually having input lag on the display. Anyway, I can pretty much say that the 22-inch iZ3D monitor does not have problem with the input lag and thus is a great for gaming for both plain 3D and stereo 3D without compromising with the player’s performance by introducing additional delays when displaying the image on the screen…