Monday Mods 10th August: 3D Fix Manager

Remember NVIDIA 3D Vision? The GPU giant ended support for stereoscopic hardware and drivers in mid-2019, leaving fans in a lurch as all Game Ready drivers from version 425.31 onward are no longer feature 3D Vision updates. Despite this, there’s a vibrant community of 3D fans who work tirelessly to ensure 3D Vision continues to work with games, albeit without NVIDIA’s blessing.

One modder has taken it upon themselves to plug the gap by conjuring up a nifty tool called 3D Fix Manager that allows users to install 3D Vision fixes with incredible ease.

As creator Paul Pauldusler explains:

“I’d 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.”

Notable features include:

• 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

3D Fix Manager is free to download, although Pauldusler welcomes donations for those wanting to donate some spare cash for their efforts. You can download the necessary files right here. Naturally, you’ll need an NVIDIA GPU and compatible display. Otherwise, the app is pretty forgiving in terms of requirements, even running on Windows 7 and 8 for those with older machines.

Pauldusler is regularly updating the app with improvements and fixes, so check back for updates. For a list of known issues, you can check the dedicated 3D Fix Manager site right here.