Last Updated: November 14, 2020
I like to share an application with you I’ve been working on for a while. It’s called "3D Fix Manager" and the reason I developed it is that I wanted to have a more comfortable way for installing 3D Vision Fixes and a user-friendly approach for editing hotkeys in order to quickly change 3D related settings like 3D depth and convergence while gaming.
So which features does 3D Fix Manager provide?
- Clear GUI with multi-language support (Englisch, French, German, Portuguese)
- Auto restores 3D Vision compatibility with Win 10 > 1809 and Geforce drivers beyond 425.31
- Detection of installed 3D Vision games (Steam, Uplay, Origin, GOG and many more supported)
- Download, install and uninstall 3D Vision fixes with only 1 click
- Installed 3D fixes are automatically kept up to date
- Simple configuration of 3D fixes. Adjust 3D hotkeys for changing 3D depth and convergence and much more. Configs are automatically backuped and restored when reinstalling 3D fixes.
- Launch games directly with 3D Fix Manager either in 2D or stereo 3D mode. For 2D mode 3D fixes are automatically disabled as not needed then.
- Graphics settings of games are automatically optimized for playing in stereo 3D
- Nvidia driver profiles are automatically installed and optimized for stereo 3D
- Options for individually editing the global Nvidia driver profile for both 2D and stereo 3D mode
- Up to 3 display profiles provided - optimize settings for your display devices and load them easily by selecting the respective profile
- No need to use Nvidia Control Panel any more - all stereo 3D related settings are directly integrated into 3D Fix Manager. Additionally all settings can be backuped and restored.
- Simple activation of Compatibility Mode (also known as fake / depth buffer 3D) for any DirectX 11 game
- Highly customizable - fine tune a lot of settings for each game profile. Easily create new profiles for games not supported by 3D Fix Manager yet.
- Performance for stereo 3D automatically improved by using RivaTuner Statistics Server
- Automatic updates for game profiles which include new 3D fixes
- Automatic updates for the application itself which add new features and bugfixes
Currently more than 900 3D fixes from helixmod.blogspot are supported by 3D Fix Manager. This includes fixes using Helix Mod (DirectX 9), 3dmigoto (DirectX 11), Vulkan Wrapper and OpenGL 3D Vision Wrapper.
Technical support and discussion:
- The main thread about 3D Fix Manager can be found in Geforce forum
- Future discussion about 3D Fix Manager should be done on MTBS3D as Nvidia made Geforce forum useless with their last update
- In discord you will find a sub topic about 3D Fix Manager here
Donation:
- If you want to support this project you can donate to this PayPal account: duselpaul86@gmx.de
Download:
- Preferred download: Portable 7z Version 1.81 (file size: 30 MB)
- Or choose installer or portable zip version:
- Download: Portable Zip Version 1.81 (file size: 60mb)
- Download: Installer Version 1.81 (file size: 60mb)
- Alternatively you can visit my Download Page
- Optional: Download RivaTuner Statistics Server for accessing all features of 3D Fix Manager. RTSS eliminates micro stuttering, reduces input lag and improves frametimes for stereo 3D mode.
Instructions:
- Installer version: Start the setup wizard and simply click on continue. Adjust install directory to your liking. A desktop shortcut and entry in start menu folder are created by the setup wizard.
- Portable zip version: Extract the downloaded file archive. Neither start menu entries nor a desktop shortcut are created by using the zip version.
- Start the application with "3DFixManager.exe" or use the desktop shortcut created by the installer.
Requirements:
- Windows 7 / 8 / 10
- .NET Framework 4.6 or higher
- Nvidia graphics card
- 3D display compatible to 3D Vision, 3DTV Play or Optimized for Geforce
- Note: If you have a Nvidia graphics card but not a 3D display device you can still fully use this application with anaglyph mode (3D Vision Discover). You need anaglyph red / blue glasses for this (e.g. available on Amazon for not more than 5$).
- If your card is AMD this application serves as a simple game launcher only (all Nvidia related settings locked then)
Known Issues:
- When double clicking on "3DFixManager.exe" and nothing happens it 's very likely that your AntiVirus software is blocking the application from being started. Easiest fix is to copy the application from protected places like C:\Program Files (x86) to other places like D:\3D Fix Manager. You can also try to add the folder of the application to the whitelist of your AntiVirus software but this does not always fix the issue.
- Detection of games might fail if no info about the game is available in Windows registry. When this happens 3D Fix Manager tries to find the game via search paths but this might fail as well when no according search paths have been added to the application. In this case please make sure that all paths to your game libraries are listed in the search paths option (you find this in "Settings" tab -> "Application Setting" tab -> "Detecting installed Games")
- If a game is still not listed you can force detection by setting up a custom install path for the individual fix profile (you do this by changing the search filter from "Installed Games" to "All Games" in the upper left corner. After that double click on the game in the list and navigate to "Custom Root / Game Path")
Manual:
- A detailed manual can be found here. Please have a look at the section "Problems and Solutions" if you experience any issues
GitHub:
- The application is not available in your language yet? Please feel free to translate this language file on GitHub and your language will be added to the application with the next update.
Notes:
- Please help me to improve this application by reporting bugs, wrong / outdated fix profiles or if you have any suggestions. Thank you.
- I tested the application a lot and I think it’s in a good state. However I take no responsibility if any damage should occur on your machine by using this application. Use at your own risk. :)
Change Notes Version 1.81 (November 14, 2020):
- New: Added focus handling for game start. The game window is automatically forced into foreground 6 seconds after the game process was launched. Without this the user sometimes had to bring the window manually into foreground.
- Changed: Removed local driver hack for Vulkan fixed games as the latest Vulkan stereo driver uses DirectX 9 API for accessing the Nvidia 3D Vision hardware. This also means that Nvidia RTX 3070 / 3080 / 3090 cards work with Vulkan games in stereo 3D now.
- Changed: Adjusted uninstall procedure and ini file detection for Vulkan 3D fixes. The directory structure of the fixes changed with the latest update of the Vulkan stereo driver.
- Changed: Removed auto restore of 3D depth and convergence as this is not longer working with the latest version of the Vulkan stereo driver.
- Changed: Set 7zip as the default extractor when creating new fix profiles as it's much faster than the old extractor SharpCompress.
- Bugfix: CMU wasn't closed automatically after the game was terminated.
- Bugfix: 'Additional exe' wasn't created any more although enabled in fix profile. This prevented e.g. AoE 3 from working as this game needs a renamed copy of the original game executable.
- Bugfix: When a game process couldn't be shut down properly it could occur that "Play 2D / Play 3D" buttons were disabled permanently for all games.
- Bugfix: Hardware acceleration for the GUI wasn't disabled on next startup if the user has set hardware acceleration to off previously.
Change Notes Version 1.8 (October 31, 2020):
- New: 3D Depth and Convergence are saved persistently for Vulkan fixed games. Just press the usual keys CTRL + F3 / F4 to change 3D depth, CTRL + F5 / F6 to change convergence. CTRL + F7 saves convergence.
- New: Geforce driver can be installed via controls on "Driver" tab when no Geforce driver is installed yet.
- New: Added a toggle for enabling / disabling hardware acceleration for the application's GUI. Disable HW accleration if you experience abrupt crashes.
- New: Add a check whether a same-named third party DLL is already installed to the game directory. The check is processed before installing the 3D fix.
- Changed: When replacing DCH driver with default drivers in "Driver" tab Windows Update is prevented from wiping the freshly installed standard driver and replacing it with an old DCH driver.
- Changed: More obvious option in "Nvidia 3D Settings" tab to show global driver hack toggle.
- Changed: Re-enabled hardware rendering for the GUI. HW acceleration is disabled temporary while 3D is being enabled / disabled to avoid crashes.
- Bugfix: Fixed a potential crash on startup when the xml settings file got corrupted with illegal characters.
- Bugfix: Fixed wrong stereo on / off detection for non-3D Vision laptops using built-in monitor.
- Bugfix: Fixed wrong plattform detection for VulkanWrapper fixes. X32 was returned instead of x64.
- Bugfix: Wrong primary display name was shown in "Driver" tab when more than one display was connected to the PC.
- Bugfix: Intel or other graphics adapters were shown on "Driver" tab although it's only interest graphics adapter is Nvidia.
- Bugfix: Fixed broken translation for Ir Emitter in "Driver" tab.
- Bugfix: Fixed crash when Resorep DLL is installed to game directory.
- Bugfix: Compact GUI mode was broken
Change Notes Version 1.79 (October 11, 2020):
- New: Added error dialog when user clicks on the 3D toggle and a 3D driver component is missing or not set up.
- Bugfix: Application hang when trying to close it. This happened when auto-disable 3D on application exit was enabled.
- Bugfix: Undoing Windows Mixed Portal fix didn't work any more.
- Bugfix: Stereo toggle wasn't reset to "off" when activation of stereo 3D failed.
Change Notes Version 1.78 (October 10, 2020):
- New: Added stereo 3D support for Vulkan games (currently 4 games supported... more are incoming). Big thanks to Helifax for developing the Vulkan stereo 3D driver!
- New: Added "Drivers" tab. Here you can install both Geforce and 3D Vision driver and check for driver health.
- New: Whenever you click on "Play 3D" button and the stereo 3D driver is not installed you are redirected to the "Drivers" tab to show which 3D component is still missing. The tab provides a simple button to install driver components or fix things.
- New: Added error handling when latest Geforce driver is installed. Any Geforce driver beyond version 452.06 is currently unsupported regarding stereo 3D in DirectX 11 games. We apologize for any inconvenience and work on a solution.
- New: Added error handling when people use a laptop 2D monitor for showing anaglyph 3D mode. Nvidia for no reason forbids anaglyph 3D on a laptop monitor. This error case is caught now. For fixing the issue please connect an extra monitor to you PC.
- New: Added a new loading spinner when clicking on the "Play 2D", "Play 3D" buttons
- Changed: Updated 7zip wrapper and 7zip DLL - heavily improved performance for extracting 7zip compressed 3D fixes. E.g. Watch Dogs 2 requires only 30 seconds for extracting the 3D fix now. Formerly it took about 5 minutes to extract the heavily compressed 10 MB file to uncompress it to tje final large size of 1 GB. (Measurements were done a SSD)
- Changed: When installing the stereo driver or enabling 3D the application does not hang any more.
- Changed: Location of Steam client is detected in any case now. This is very important to auto-detect installed games.
- Changed: Framerate limiter is auto removed on app close. This ensures that the framerate limiter is removed at any case. It would formerly fail when people closed 3DFM while the game was still running.
- Changed: Windows Mixed Reality Portal fix is only processed when it is required. Formely it was done / undone no matter if a WMR headset was used.
- Bugfix: Some games showed HUD only while the rest of the screen was black. This bug happened because Nvidia encrypts the convergence driver setting and 3DFM wrote the encrypted setting back to the driver profile which resultat in insane high numbers for the convergence. Driver profiles with a wrong convergence are getting automatically repaired to make 3D work again.
- Bugfix: Fixed a bug where 3dmigoto got not updated on newer Windows 10 versions.
Change Notes Version 1.77 (August 18, 2020):
- New: Custom convergence and 3D depth ingame settings get auto saved to 3DFM and won't get lost after each Geforce driver update any more. The settings are saved individually for each display profile.
- New: You can filter games for the most popular game engines now which are: Unreal Engine 3/4 and Unity.
- Changed: Improved auto update mechanism for 3D fixes. Update notification for a single 3D fix is only showed to the user when the files on the server have been indeed updated. So far the notification popped up every time when the blog was updated which does not necessarily mean that the files got updated as well.
- Changed: Removed hangs / freezes when switching between tabs.
- Changed: Removed profile selection dialog on game start when user hasn't enabled a single option in any of the display profiles. It's senseless to show the dialog then.
- Changed: 3D fix / local driver hack do not get auto-disabled on game exit any more. This let's you the choice if you want to start games manually via Steam & co.
- Changed: The games list auto-scrolls down to the selected game after changing filter settings.
- Changed: Added PayPal.me addresses to make sending donations easier for the user.
- Bugfix: CMU didn't work any more when using local driver hack.
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