Around two and a half years ago Helix introduced Helixmod wrapper. Many people including myself got involved in the project and we have released around 250 patches to date. Patching a game is a difficult process that very few people are familiar with and was always meant to be a supplemental. Our aim was to show NVIDIA how much of a demand there was for 3D gaming and gain more 3D Vision titles. Unfortunately, as time progressed we had less and less titles.
As we had less and less support I questioned NVIDIA as to why we are having less support. They said in short, That I didn't understand and that developers are not likely to want to implement because it will not effect sales enough. The fact remains though that NVIDIA is not offering any incentive to developers. They blame them for the lack of support but they sponsor developers to support their technologies such as PHYSX, TXAA, ETC.
Not surprisingly the modders of Helixmod have been treated poorly. As most know, we are not employee's of NVIDIA. Nor are we paid for our time/contributions. We do not do this for NVIDIA but to help the community often at great costs. All we ask is that NVIDIA supports 3D Vision ~ which they haven't. Not get in our way ~ which they've done several times.
This may come as a shock to many people since we have been almost the sole method of support for 3D vision. NVIDIA has broken our patches on multiple occasions and frankly made our lives more difficult. Such as...
-Breaking Helix's patches for Mass Effect 3 and Kingdom of Amalur [Took 6 months of constant requesting to resolve]
-Breaking patches for DMC / Mass Effect 2. [Gained around 150 signatures requesting aid. Never resolved. I had to spend my time making changes that harmed the patches to get them compatible]
-Made several requests to change profiles on games we patched. [We learned to not bother, these requests get ignored]
-Helix made a request that they look into fixing the issue that occurs via 3D vision that causes distant lights to cut off in Bioshock Infinite.
NVIDIA has done many other things that upset all of us ranging from Negligence to False Advertising. To the point many games including ones we added support to are claimed to be 3D Vision supported.
-The ratings have always been considered a joke but the Geforce Page is notorious for claiming support on titles that are even rated unsupported.[This has improved as of late]
-They even made a special advertisement of a game that was patched by myself and is otherwise unplayable.
-Depth buffer/Fake 3D is a cheap method to easily gain support of virtually every title. NVIDIA is giving these games high ratings to attract new users.
-Since they are no longer contacting developers about support. Any game with depth buffer support and is sponsored by NVIDIA will be claimed as 3D Vision supported.
Not surprisingly, over the years many modders decided it was time to move on. Not that I or anyone could blame them. Patching is a difficult process that takes many, many hours. Not to mention we constantly run into issues with SLI/NON-SLI/Patches to want to deal with NVIDIA BS. So we went from a few modders to two, Mikear69 and myself[Eqzitara].
Its mainly been the two of us for a year and though we have done our best many have grown frustrated with the lack of our support of certain titles. Unfortunately it has become clear to everyone not to rely on NVIDIA so in turn this puts all the pressure on us. We do not entirely blame these individuals but its become clear that as time goes on more and more people will become frustrated.
Both Mikear69 and myself agreed that its time to move on. We will be continuing for a time but we both will be leaving sometime during the Fall season.. Please keep in mind that I speak for both of us in saying this was not an easy decision. I have patched around 100 titles and given support to 1000's of users. Despite my work 3D vision has long since become a product I can not recommend to others. Its gotten to the point that whenever I speak to a new user I honestly feel sorry for them.
We would like especially thank..
Helix, who did so much for 3D Vision.
All modders who have contributed.
People who donated towards costs of web server. Which will keep the web-site/file server up for many years.
3DVision-Blog , 3DVisionFR , 3DSolutiongaming , S3DGamerZone
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Comments are disabled. If you wish to discuss go to NVIDIA forums
If you wish to contact me please contact my email Eqzitara@yahoo.com and I will try to reply . Please keep in mind that the decisions made here are final however. Do not contact on NVIDIA forums since I am no longer using it.
I can't make any promises but I plan to last till Fable Anniversary and Borderlands Pre Sequel [if possible] but afterwards I will be moving onto Oculus Rift and recommend the same to all others.
As we had less and less support I questioned NVIDIA as to why we are having less support. They said in short, That I didn't understand and that developers are not likely to want to implement because it will not effect sales enough. The fact remains though that NVIDIA is not offering any incentive to developers. They blame them for the lack of support but they sponsor developers to support their technologies such as PHYSX, TXAA, ETC.
Not surprisingly the modders of Helixmod have been treated poorly. As most know, we are not employee's of NVIDIA. Nor are we paid for our time/contributions. We do not do this for NVIDIA but to help the community often at great costs. All we ask is that NVIDIA supports 3D Vision ~ which they haven't. Not get in our way ~ which they've done several times.
This may come as a shock to many people since we have been almost the sole method of support for 3D vision. NVIDIA has broken our patches on multiple occasions and frankly made our lives more difficult. Such as...
-Breaking Helix's patches for Mass Effect 3 and Kingdom of Amalur [Took 6 months of constant requesting to resolve]
-Breaking patches for DMC / Mass Effect 2. [Gained around 150 signatures requesting aid. Never resolved. I had to spend my time making changes that harmed the patches to get them compatible]
-Made several requests to change profiles on games we patched. [We learned to not bother, these requests get ignored]
-Helix made a request that they look into fixing the issue that occurs via 3D vision that causes distant lights to cut off in Bioshock Infinite.
NVIDIA has done many other things that upset all of us ranging from Negligence to False Advertising. To the point many games including ones we added support to are claimed to be 3D Vision supported.
-The ratings have always been considered a joke but the Geforce Page is notorious for claiming support on titles that are even rated unsupported.[This has improved as of late]
-They even made a special advertisement of a game that was patched by myself and is otherwise unplayable.
-Depth buffer/Fake 3D is a cheap method to easily gain support of virtually every title. NVIDIA is giving these games high ratings to attract new users.
-Since they are no longer contacting developers about support. Any game with depth buffer support and is sponsored by NVIDIA will be claimed as 3D Vision supported.
Not surprisingly, over the years many modders decided it was time to move on. Not that I or anyone could blame them. Patching is a difficult process that takes many, many hours. Not to mention we constantly run into issues with SLI/NON-SLI/Patches to want to deal with NVIDIA BS. So we went from a few modders to two, Mikear69 and myself[Eqzitara].
Its mainly been the two of us for a year and though we have done our best many have grown frustrated with the lack of our support of certain titles. Unfortunately it has become clear to everyone not to rely on NVIDIA so in turn this puts all the pressure on us. We do not entirely blame these individuals but its become clear that as time goes on more and more people will become frustrated.
Both Mikear69 and myself agreed that its time to move on. We will be continuing for a time but we both will be leaving sometime during the Fall season.. Please keep in mind that I speak for both of us in saying this was not an easy decision. I have patched around 100 titles and given support to 1000's of users. Despite my work 3D vision has long since become a product I can not recommend to others. Its gotten to the point that whenever I speak to a new user I honestly feel sorry for them.
We would like especially thank..
Helix, who did so much for 3D Vision.
All modders who have contributed.
People who donated towards costs of web server. Which will keep the web-site/file server up for many years.
3DVision-Blog , 3DVisionFR , 3DSolutiongaming , S3DGamerZone
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Comments are disabled. If you wish to discuss go to NVIDIA forums
If you wish to contact me please contact my email Eqzitara@yahoo.com and I will try to reply . Please keep in mind that the decisions made here are final however. Do not contact on NVIDIA forums since I am no longer using it.
I can't make any promises but I plan to last till Fable Anniversary and Borderlands Pre Sequel [if possible] but afterwards I will be moving onto Oculus Rift and recommend the same to all others.