Is SOW BOB going to be sterescopic 3D compatible?

[distant]

The game would look fantastic in S-3D for sure, and I'm so disappointed to read that it's written in OpenGL which is not supported by any of the current S-3D solutions that I know of.

I'm very interested in knowing for sure whether there is any development effort towards S-3D compatibility?

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9) My question is: on what operatiing system SOW-BOB will run?
Will it be based on OpenGl as Il2 was or DirectX?
Will it be DirectX9 or 10? Or both?

OpenGl - still main.

[genbrien]

I'm not sure but I think Oleg changed his statement, saying that the pic he showed us was in dx9 ,and it was plan in the future to use dx11.... but I may be wrong....

[drafting]

If they do make SoW 3D compatible, they have to make the projected gunsight sit out at infinity instead of on the cockpit glass...

When flight sims are in 2D, you'll never know the difference, but in 3D, you'll see two gunsights to the left and the right of the target, which makes it a big headache to aim.

It'd also help to have range/plane icons sit at same distance as the plane... otherwise, you can't see both at the same time and it's headache inducing, too.

I've seen the above two problems in another flight sim I've tested with nVidia's 3D drivers, and they make it nearly impossible to dogfight. Otherwise, the 3D effects are mindblowing when just flying around!

[distant]

Don't know about you chaps, but I no longer play any game/sim in flat 3D and if SOW BOB is not S-3D compatible then it's going to be my huge loss.

[drafting]

That's taking it a bit far isn't it? That'd be quite a loss to miss out on Storm of War, and you'd probably have a good long wait before another WWII sim of the same caliber came out.

[distant]

It's been that way for me the past 15 years, absolutely no flat 3D games. IL2 was an OpenGL game but was supported by Nvidia S3D driver up to its sudden 2006 abandonment. When Nvidia 3D Vision became available at the beginning of 2009, its stereoscopy driver no longer supports OpenGL games and because of that until now I still haven't pulled it off the shelf (its DirectX version was not enabled for S-3D either, probably by developer.)

The way things go, S-3D is the 'future' of gaming, 1C should have a longer term vision for their business and incorporate S-3D compatibility with all their future games, starting with this title - to not missing the train.

[von_Rodg]

I agree! Stereoscopic 3D support is my biggest wish for SOW. Might still buy it without,... but unlikely to play it nearly as much.

IL2 was awesome until compatability with NVidia stero drivers fell apart. Once you've played in stereo 3d there's no going back.

von_R

[13th Hsqn Protos]

Originally Posted by distant

Don't know about you chaps, but I no longer play any game/sim in flat 3D and if SOW BOB is not S-3D compatible then it's going to be my huge loss.

Well while your busy watching Avatar and dreaming of the possible future ....waiting for your 3d sim extravaganza ....
99.9% of the rest of community will be flying.
Have fun watching from the sidelines

[distant]

You seem to have assumed that none other flightsims work in S3D? On the contrary, except IL2 and its derivative Wings of Prey, all other sims ever published work in S-3D gloriously including the latests ie Blackshark, Rise of Flight.

In general, all games that are DirectX8 and above work with 3DVision. There are literally hundreds of games of all genres that can be enjoyed in S-3D at any one time that I honestly don't have time to play them all.