Did you know that the most recent Battlefield 3 patch introduced stereoscopic 3D support, both for Nvidia 3DVision as well as AMD HD3D? I didn’t, but that’s just because I don’t have any of the fancy gizmos required to play PC games in 3D.
By rendering each frame twice, (once for each eye), the Frostbite 2 engine can now create the illusion of an 3D image with players with the required hardware.
Battlefield 3 is a pretty resource hungry game as it is, so bear in mind that playing games in 3D requires additional image rendering and therefore more hardware resources. EA advises that players consider lowering their graphics settings when playing in 3D in order to ensure a steady framerate.
“Rendering each frame twice is quite performance heavy, though, so take that into consideration if you want to play with Stereoscopic 3D enabled. To improve performance, you may want to reduce graphics quality or resolution compared to what you normally would use when playing without Stereoscopic 3D.
“Using a multi GPU setup will also improve performance, as each GPU can share the work load” reads the announcement on the official Battlefield blog.
DICE’s guide to activating stereoscopic 3D in Battlefield 3
Before starting, remember to make sure that your system is up to date with the latest graphics card drivers.
Nvidia 3D Vision
Nvidia 3D Vision is a combination of 3D Vision wireless glasses and 3D Vision Ready monitors.
Enable 3D Vision by going to the NVIDIA control panel, and in the Stereoscopic 3D tab, make sure “Enable stereoscopic 3D” is set. Battlefield 3 will use the standard 3D Vision settings and hotkeys.
Adjust the amount of depth effect using the scroll wheel on the 3D Vision IR emitter or by using the keyboard shortcuts. The default shortcuts are CTRL-F4 to increase the depth, and CTRL-F3 to decrease the depth. You can customize these shortcuts in the Stereoscopic 3D control panel.
AMD HD3D
Again you will need an AMD graphics card and monitor that supports stereoscopic 3D. Most HD5000 series and HD6000 series Radeons support HD3D, but you can double check your card here.
Enable HD3D by starting Battlefield 3 and go into the options menu. In the video options tab, change STEREOSCOPIC 3D to ON. Adjust the depth using the slider in the menu.
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