Nvidia GTX280/260 and 9800GTX/+ 177.39 Beta Driver with PhysX-Support

jbloggs · 20 Jun 2008 at 13:35

Got this working on my 8800GTS 512MB, my original 3DMark Vantage score was 6501:

With PhysX-Support, it increased to 7871

helmutcheese · 20 Jun 2008 at 13:36

FreeStream · 20 Jun 2008 at 13:43

Heh, how very **** for ATi users.

Doesn't bother me at all

Andeh · 20 Jun 2008 at 13:44

oh oh oh oh oh, i wanna get home from work just to try these!!!

Hamoodii · 20 Jun 2008 at 13:54

Screenshot of the drivers running under 64-bit vista w/ 8800gt:

Rroff · 20 Jun 2008 at 13:54

Installed the physx driver with 175.16 drivers installed on my 8800GT and its enabled the Geforce PhysX option in the PhysX control panel... need to find something to test that its actually working with these drivers now...

Enabled on 175.16s (untested to see if it actually wotks in games yet).

helmutcheese · 20 Jun 2008 at 14:09

Well I got a G80 so don't suppose it works, unless someone else gets it to work as peep above did not

Andeh · 20 Jun 2008 at 14:16

doesnt look like the physx support is meant for the G80 cards

Nymins · 20 Jun 2008 at 14:18

Andeh said:
doesnt look like the physx support is meant for the G80 cards

It will definitely come out for the G80 in a few weeks. These drivers are press leaks and were not meant for the public just yet.

Devil_Spawn · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:20

any chance of a working inf for the 8800gt?

Greebo · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:21

Devil_Spawn said:
any chance of a working inf for the 8800gt?

Their out there on the net already, google it.

Its_Me · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:27

Got mine working with 8800GT (vista32).
Thanks for heads up, demo's look amazing.

Andeh · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:29

Nymins said:
It will definitely come out for the G80 in a few weeks. These drivers are press leaks and were not meant for the public just yet.

hmm i dunno, it certinly wouldnt suprise me if they dont...

Nymins · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:31

Andeh said:
hmm i dunno, it certinly wouldnt suprise me if they dont...

I dunno, but i think it would annoy a lot of people if they didn't. Going by the OP's post it really should:

Today, NVIDIA officially launched GPU acceleration for PhysX when they released the PhysX driver version 8.06.12 which enables PhysX acceleration for the following cards :
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GTX

You will need to install the latest 177.39 ForceWare driver in addition to the PhysX driver. At this moment, PhysX support has only been enabled for those four GPUs. NVIDIA will progressively enable PhysX support in the other GeForce 9 and GeForce 8 graphics over the next few weeks

Greebo · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:34

Nymins said:
I dunno, but i think it would annoy a lot of people if they didn't. Going by the OP's post it really should:

But they might just mean G92 8 series????

J.D · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:35

Nymins said:
I dunno, but i think it would annoy a lot of people if they didn't. Going by the OP's post it really should:

That could be the 8800GT and GTS (G92).

Edit: Greebo beat me to it

hernaldo · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:37

Nice as it is, its abit of a cheek they didn't release this stuff ages ago soon after aquiring AGEIA's PhysX nonsense in the first place. But damn impressive nontheless, will this actually transfer to games though in real use or just for those PhysX "tech demo" type scenes?

Greebo · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:37

J.D said:
That could be the 8800GT and GTS (G92).

Edit: Greebo beat me to it

I cheated and just put G92 8 series as it was quicker than putting what you posted

Nymins · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:40

Greebo said:
But they might just mean G92 8 series????

J.D said:
That could be the 8800GT and GTS (G92).

Edit: Greebo beat me to it

But why would they just do it for the G92? All the 8 series supports CUDA and function basically the same. The only main difference is the small chips for the G92 (65nm) compared to the G80 (90nm).

J.D · 20 Jun 2008 at 15:44

hernaldo said:
Nice as it is, its abit of a cheek they didn't release this stuff ages ago soon after aquiring AGEIA's PhysX nonsense in the first place. But damn impressive nontheless, will this actually transfer to games though in real use or just for those PhysX "tech demo" type scenes?

Well with the acquisition of Ageia I reckon that Nvidia will use it to their advantage. There's quite a few PPU enabled games out there (seen the list yesterday) and also UT3 with this new driver is meant to be pretty great. I'm sure it was about double of the FPS with Physics enabled compared to the old driver. It's a decent addition but with Ageia and how it all worked out before it seems as if the majority don't really care for this. However, with Nvidia having their fingers in so many game developers pies I wouldn't be surprised if this actually takes off.

So there is proof that it's already making an impact on UT3 so that shows it's not just a 3dmark thing

. Now it's going to be exciting what AMD and Havok come up with

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