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dedicated physics card

wingnuttzz

wingnuttzz

wingnuttzz

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hi guys

i got a nvidia 8600 gts (i think) off a mate today for helping out build his PC (and he didn't need it anymore) and i was thinking about putting it in my PC as a dedicated physics card

would this work and how would i go about setting it up??

thanks
Grant (wingnuttzz)
 
Just slap it in the 2nd/spare PCI-e port, boot up install drivers, open control panel and in nvidia physx->settings make sure GeForce Physx is ticked on the right of this option a button should appear with the option to select which card to use for physx.
 
AFAIK firstly find out if any of the games you play support PhysX. Make sure you have the drivers. If you use vista then I think you need to connect the card to your monitor with another input ie s-video.
When I have time I'll try it myself.
 
oOo, that easy

will give it a shot over the weekend

and i now there is pretty much nothing that supports PhysX, but i'm a big Unreal Tournament fan and i have the card, so why not, lol
 
Rroff said:
Just slap it in the 2nd/spare PCI-e port, boot up install drivers, open control panel and in nvidia physx->settings make sure GeForce Physx is ticked on the right of this option a button should appear with the option to select which card to use for physx.
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just tried this, and i can't see any physX opition, have you got a screen shot or something please???
 
You need the graphics card and the physix drivers... both can be found at nvidia :)

Also... my physix doesnt show in control panel, but it is in the Start, All Programs, Nvidia Corporation! Just in case yours is there!
 
Monkeynut said:
Is it not? That' a bit of an oddity. Can you run PhysX on 3 cards if all of them are doing Tri-SLI?
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Not sure on that, i know with normal SLI you can either have both cards do GFX + Physx, or one do GFX the other do PhysX

Maybe the newer drivers will allow this
 
yay, i've got it working, at least its set-up to work anyway :p

installed the new beta drivers (180.10) and ran window's updates (missing outing the 9800gtx/gtx+ opition as that reverts the drivers to 178.93 or something old).
got it set-up to have the physX running on the 8600.
 
turns out i'm using a 8600GT with 256mb of DDR3 ram, and tbh, i doubt i or you will notice any difference by dedicating it to physics, but if you can why not...

will be running vantage later, see if my score has gone up since adding the 8600gt
 
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