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I'm Dan Akron we are here take a look at the toshiba qosmio f 755 3d this is actually a flight ly updated version of the original f 755 3d that we looked at about halfway through 2011 what made that laptop and this one special is that they have auto stereoscopic 3d screens that means you can watch a 3d movie without having to wear those cumbersome active shutter 3d glasses the way it works is the laptop uses its webcam to keep an eye on your face and use the special eye tracking software to adjust the different levels of the stereoscopic image so that it always stays kind of instinct for you the downside of course is that it really only works for one person at a time because it has to track your eye movements and of course the original version only worked with 3d blu-rays and a couple of downloadable videos did not work with video games which seemed like a fairly big omission the reason why we're excited to check this out again is because this new version thanks to some updated drivers from nvidia actually does work with 3d video games and well we loaded up a whole bunch of games tried it out worked about as well as any system with nvidia 3d vision does unfortunately the catcher is and you knew there had to be one there's a really underpowered GPU in here it's fine for regular casual gaming but once you move into 3d mode it just doesn't have the horsepower it's an nvidia GT 540m and it just can't play game smoothly in 3d mode because it requires that the games come up at the full 1920 x 1080 resolution which you normally wouldn't deal with a mid-level graphics card if you're just doing casual mainstream gaming now turn the three day off in 2d it actually plays games just fine but turn that 3d on because you're stuck at higher resolution even though it knocks it down to 1366 x 768 in 3d mode because it's doubling so much of the information and it's just too choppy to play we tried Skyrim we tried battlefield 3 a portal actually worked okay in our review we've got some more frames per second breakdowns of how different games work in 2d and 3d mode one of the things I'm pleased about with this update though is the blu-ray performance is actually better on the original you put a disc in and you go and get a sandwich to come back and it still wouldn't be loaded up this time the the custom toshiba player used to watch the blu-ray movies in 3d it's still a little bit sluggish but it's actually a lot better and it stayed in 3d mode the entire time we didn't have to mess around with a lot to get it to work so if you're just a huge fan of 3d everything and you want to watch 3d blu-ray movies without glasses on it's actually kind of fun if more games would work on the system it would be a lot more fun because I think 3d gaming on a PC is actually a lot more flexible than let's say 3d gaming on a console but until they get a more powerful GPU in here this is still