Nvidia Ends 3D Vision And Mobile Kepler Support

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/11/2019 09:46 AM | source: | 56 comment(s)

If you bought a 3D Monitor (many) years ago, then much like most such technologies it is ending the way of the dodo. NVIDIA is halting support for 3D Vision. NVIDIA will also halt supporting Mobile Kepler products and is moving the driver to legacy status.

GeForce Game Ready drivers starting at 418 will have lacking support. 3D Vision in was introduced back on 2009 but never really became popular. Nvidia will make its 3D Vision Video Player available until the end of 2019.

Critical updates will continue to be provided by the company until April 2020. With driver version 418, Nvidia also supports support for mobile Kepler GPUs . The Kepler architecture can be found in a large number of laptop cards from Nvidia, from the 600 series to even some 800 and 900 models.

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Undying
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#5648483 Posted on: 03/11/2019 10:29 AM

Why stop there nvidia. Halt the maxwell support too when you are at it. Dont forget the desktop cards.

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#5648485 Posted on: 03/11/2019 10:37 AM

I've never known anyone personally who had an Nvidia 3d vision setup and I've not seen it advertised in many years!
I wonder if we'll get some nostalgic youtubers testing it out in 2019...

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#5648487 Posted on: 03/11/2019 10:41 AM

Why stop there nvidia. Halt the maxwell support too when you are at it. Dont forget the desktop cards.

Well it is the same release period with HD7000 series. With Navi release AMD will also move HD7000 series into legacy. Don't forget AMD is one generation behind NVIDIA.

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#5648500 Posted on: 03/11/2019 11:47 AM

I play every game in 3D when possible and just bought a new 3D Vision monitor this year.

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#5648504 Posted on: 03/11/2019 12:03 PM

I do not have a 3D vision monitor but I played a lot of games with the red/blue glasses which 3D vision allowed you to do on a regular monitor. Some games didn't work great, but others worked extremely well, it was pretty awesome. Sad this tech is gonna die out. 3D vision is a great middle ground between standard gaming and VR.

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#5648506 Posted on: 03/11/2019 12:12 PM

I have an old 3D vision setup. Games were ok, but 3D photography is amazing. You get so much more from some pictures in 3D.

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#5648509 Posted on: 03/11/2019 12:13 PM

Have never seen a 3D monitor.

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#5648518 Posted on: 03/11/2019 12:45 PM

I still have Asus G51J 3D "capable" laptop with GTX 260M. Even without 3D it was struggling to play newer games and with 3D something around 20 fps. It came with 3D glasses but they have been sitting in the bag now for nine years.

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#5648526 Posted on: 03/11/2019 12:59 PM

Well isn't any 120 hz monitor capable of 3d? it should.
I bought my first 3d monitor and i bought 3d monitor only since that day, because of the higher refresh.
I thought that high fps gaming monitor was just a new name for the 3d.

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#5648534 Posted on: 03/11/2019 01:27 PM

I play every game in 3D when possible and just bought a new 3D Vision monitor this year.

Well dont you feel silly right now.

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#5648540 Posted on: 03/11/2019 01:40 PM

Are they going to halt RTX support soon as well?

On a serious note, it's kinda sad they are dropping 3D Vision support, but understandable. It's too bad for those that still use and enjoy it regularly, but the 3D craze has died down, there are almost no monitors or TVs sold with 3D tech anymore, etc..
My 3D TV that worked with 3D Vision died a couple of years back, too, haven't used it since then.
I'm just hoping the 3D movie craze in cinemas will be halted soon, too, so I can go watch any film without my eyes getting sore again (that or use high-framerate 3D, that Hobbit movie that used that tech didn't hurt my eyes at all).

Ending Mobile Kepler support is a bit rough for those with Kepler-based latpops, but at least if the Desktop version still remains in the drivers, they might be moddable for the affected mobile parts as well.

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#5648544 Posted on: 03/11/2019 02:00 PM

I bought a 3D monitor and nvidia glasses back in the day. I used the 3D mode 4 times in total then sacked it off and just used 2D 120hz instead

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#5648549 Posted on: 03/11/2019 02:12 PM

My (3 year old?) Asus VG248QE (144hz) is apparently a 3D monitor. Big "3D" logo on the pedestal. I've never used that feature and I'm honestly not even sure how I would go about it. lol

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#5648552 Posted on: 03/11/2019 02:17 PM

Kepler was their flagship in 2012 and 2013, and sure has aged by now, but I do hope they won't drop desktop Kepler anytime soon. I wonder why they do drop mobile though if still supporting desktop officially.

Fermi never got another Legacy driver either during its one year Legacy support.

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#5648559 Posted on: 03/11/2019 02:50 PM

Just seems like removing a feature, a niche feature but nonetheless it's still a feature that some might still use, personally I haven't played with 3d vision for years but all my screens support 3d vision2 as well as Gsync, honestly I don't see the point of ending support if it means they are removing 3d vision from the drivers, it's like what's next Physx I mean it was hardly successful and only supported in a hand full of games and if you compare Physx support to 3d Vision there's actually more games that support 3d vision out of the box than supports Physx right now so shall we scrap Physx next and hairworks shall we scrap that too? How about we just scrap everything apart from RTX that should get people upgrading, seriously whats the point?

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