3D Vision Blog

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is celebrating its one-month anniversary and Blizzard has announced that the first feature and balance patch for the game should be completed and available by the middle of September. Patch 1.1 will contain a number of improvements including additional mod features, Editor improvements and bug fixes, some custom game improvements, support for NVIDIA’s 3D Vision, and more… And I’m pretty sure that most of you are expecting especially the 3D Vision support part, although StarCraft II already looks quite well in stereo 3D mode with the latest beta 3D Vision drivers. However the official patch 1.1 should fix all of the remaining small things like 2D crosshair along with other HUD elements rendered in 2D and maybe some other glitches that the game has when rendered in stereo 3D mode. So maybe in two weeks time StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will become an official 3D Vision Ready game title.

- To read all of the available details about the upcoming StarCraft II patch 1.1…

Last Friday Nvidia has silently released a new beta driver CD version 1.33 for 3D Vision users after previously releasing a 1.33 CD with WHQL drivers and that kind of confused the users as the version of the drivers included was the same as with the WHQL release. However in the new beta driver there are some improvements regarding the 3D Vision profiles and one of them is targeted for StarCraft II players, along with updated Mafia II profile (the game is finally coming very soon) and TRINE profile with both getting certified as 3D Vision Ready. And while normally there is no need to update (this is beta driver after all) if you play StarCraft II and want to finally be able to play in stereo 3D mode with good results then you should update the drivers as they do a good job in fixing most of the issues the game has in S3D mode. However this driver update brings the game to a “Good” 3D Vision status according to the profile and does not make it perfect in stereo 3D mode, for that we are still waiting for a patch for the game itself coming from Blizzard (like fixing the 2D crosshair etc.). One thing regarding the 3D Vision profile for the StarCraft that kind of surprised me was that the convergence level in the profile was a bit messed up, so I did some tweaking and here is a custom convergence profile that should fix things for you should you experience the same problem. So if you the the new driver and the custom convergence settings for StarCraft II please report how they work for you.

- Download the custom convergence settings for the game StarCraft II…
- Download the new 3D Vision driver CD version 1.33 beta with the updated profiles…