Aliens vs Predator multiplayer demo Fix for 3D Vision users
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:08 am
The Multiplayer Demo of scheduled for February 16th release game Aliens vs Predator has been released yesterday over Steam and a lot of people (including myself) tried to play it with 3D Vision. It turned out however that the 3D Vision drivers contain a profile for an older AvP game and load it and that results in totally messing up the image on the screen when you turn on the stereoscopic 3D mode. Turns out that the convergence level is the thing that totally messes up the image on the screen, but even after lowering the convergence with the help of CTRL + F5 key combination the game is not in a true stereo 3D mode…
The solution turned out to be to use an additional launcher and changing the actual executable name so that the 3D Vision profile for the old games is not loaded and the things aren't getting messed up. So here is a short guide on what to do along with the launcher you need to make things work. I've tested it on Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit and it was working without problems. This might also be useful for the final game when it is available as it will most likely have the same executable name and if you downloaded it over STEAM instead of getting a retail copy things might again be problematic if you want to play it in stereo 3D mdoe with the 3D Vision.
Instructions:
1. Open the folder containing the game files you downloaded from Steam: \Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\aliens vs predator demo\
2. Rename the AvP.exe executable file to AvPx.exe
3. Extract the avp.exe and avp.ini files from this archive to the aliens vs predator demo folder
4. Run the AvP game demo from the Steam client or your desktop shortcut
5. Thats it, you are ready...
Download:
The solution turned out to be to use an additional launcher and changing the actual executable name so that the 3D Vision profile for the old games is not loaded and the things aren't getting messed up. So here is a short guide on what to do along with the launcher you need to make things work. I've tested it on Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit and it was working without problems. This might also be useful for the final game when it is available as it will most likely have the same executable name and if you downloaded it over STEAM instead of getting a retail copy things might again be problematic if you want to play it in stereo 3D mdoe with the 3D Vision.
Instructions:
1. Open the folder containing the game files you downloaded from Steam: \Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\aliens vs predator demo\
2. Rename the AvP.exe executable file to AvPx.exe
3. Extract the avp.exe and avp.ini files from this archive to the aliens vs predator demo folder
4. Run the AvP game demo from the Steam client or your desktop shortcut
5. Thats it, you are ready...
Download: