• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

5870 + 8800GTX

I believe at the moment you can get the 8800 to do the PhysX alongside the ATi card with , however Nvidia will be stopping this if not already. You may get away with this with an older driver.
 
Does PhysX really make much of a difference? Also am I right in thinking only some games actually make use of it?

Also with the power of the latest cards, it's probably not worth having a 2nd card just for PhysX. The one card should be fine
 
I would not want a power guzzling 8800GTX just sat by doing nothing 99% of the time. If you MUST have a physx card get something 55nm based like a 9800GT or 9800GTX/GTS 250.

Still pointless though, IMO.
 
Other than Batman AA and 2 or 3 levels for UT3, is there really any other application that makes use of physX?
 
mirrors edge was stupid. The game was boring and physx slowed stuff down noticeabley with my old GTX 280
 
Martini1991 said:
Nvidia have no grounds stopping it imo.
Click to expand...

How about because they paid a lot of money and it's a way of differentiating themselves. Yes it's annoying but hey ho! That's competition for ya. Now all nvidia need to do is release a decent ***kin card haha

There is a way of doing it and yes, it does make a difference to all games. If even only tiny
 
Khrest said:
Mirror's Edge, but its broke anyway. 1fps per second when the glass starts flying on my GTX260...
Click to expand...

Even my 4850s which have no PhysX didn't act like that, I've recently been playing Mirror's Edge again with PhysX on to see how it performed.

It'd drop to around 10fps where there was a lot of glass getting smashed.
 
BaDBoY_uK said:
How about because they paid a lot of money and it's a way of differentiating themselves. Yes it's annoying but hey ho! That's competition for ya. Now all nvidia need to do is release a decent ***kin card haha

There is a way of doing it and yes, it does make a difference to all games. If even only tiny
Click to expand...

They still have no grounds. It's PhysX being calculated using an nVidia GPU, just as they designed it.

The issue they have is people who use an nVidia secondary card for PhysX with a primary card that isn't nVidia.

No grounds.
 
BaDBoY_uK said:
How about because they paid a lot of money and it's a way of differentiating themselves. Yes it's annoying but hey ho! That's competition for ya. Now all nvidia need to do is release a decent ***kin card haha

There is a way of doing it and yes, it does make a difference to all games. If even only tiny
Click to expand...

So, if I buy an 8800GTX, and they update drivers which disable PhysX because my main card is a 5870, how is that fair?
 
Martini1991 said:
So, if I buy an 8800GTX, and they update drivers which disable PhysX because my main card is a 5870, how is that fair?
Click to expand...

PhysX wont be disabled because your main card is a 5870, it will be disabled because you have a non Nvidia graphics card in your system. So if you had a GTX295 as your main card and added a cheap ati card to connect up to a projector so you can watch movies on it then its bye bye PhysX.

This also includes Ageia cards btw so you have people who bought an Ageia card to run PhysX, Nvidia then buyout Ageia and stop the hardware from working if it isnt used with an Nvidia card.

The stupid thing about this is though Nvida are missing out on sales because of this. They could easily rebrand a 9800GT as a dedicated PhysX card and sell it for £80 and people would buy it. It wouldnt need any outputs and could get away with passive cooling system
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom