Nvidia Releases PhysX 3.0

[TAC4U]

I'm all for innovation but nVidia merely bought out another company and imposed huge restrictions on the technology, then threw money at developers to disadvantage the competition. Unless physics is implemented through DirectX, like the DirectCompute spec, it won't get anywhere. We just end up with the silly Glide / S3TC style wars of yesteryear.

I'm all for manufacturers supporting developers, like AMD did with Dirt2/3 and STALKER. I just don't like it when it disadvantages the competition, like nVidia did with Batman:AA. On the otherhand, nVidia has done a much better job of supporting 3D for gaming.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

I'm all for innovation but nVidia merely bought out another company and imposed huge restrictions on the technology, then threw money at developers to disadvantage the competition. Unless physics is implemented through DirectX, like the DirectCompute spec, it won't get anywhere. We just end up with the silly Glide / S3TC style wars of yesteryear.

I'm all for manufacturers supporting developers, like AMD did with Dirt2/3 and STALKER. I just don't like it when it disadvantages the competition, like nVidia did with Batman:AA. On the otherhand, nVidia has done a much better job of supporting 3D for gaming.

Imagine one company buying out another and using/restricting their technology to only work with their products.
Imagine on a larger scale like say, AMD buying out ATI and releasing ATI type products under the AMD brand...

I do get the feeling that Nvidia are sort of the Intel of the graphics market though. But it's business (for them) so I don't really see anything wrong with trying to give your product an advantage. I can't imagine that if AMD come up with a breakthrough in graphics technology that they'd say "This is really good, but we don't want any games to include it as Nvidia can't use this technology so it would be unfair". I suspect they'd do the same thing if they had the chance. They probably could've bought the PhysX technology from Aegis (was it?) when Nvidia did, but didn't see it as being all that important. Bet they're feeling pretty silly now...

 

[MichaelM]

Imagine one company buying out another and using/restricting their technology to only work with their products.
Imagine on a larger scale like say, AMD buying out ATI and releasing ATI type products under the AMD brand...

I do get the feeling that Nvidia are sort of the Intel of the graphics market though. But it's business (for them) so I don't really see anything wrong with trying to give your product an advantage. I can't imagine that if AMD come up with a breakthrough in graphics technology that they'd say "This is really good, but we don't want any games to include it as Nvidia can't use this technology so it would be unfair". I suspect they'd do the same thing if they had the chance. They probably could've bought the PhysX technology from Aegis (was it?) when Nvidia did, but didn't see it as being all that important. Bet they're feeling pretty silly now...

Imagine AMD buying ATI, then with their latest 900 chipset introducing support for Nvidia SLI...

Crafty ******** using reverse psychology to hurt their competitors?

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

Imagine AMD buying ATI, then with their latest 900 chipset introducing support for Nvidia SLI...

Crafty ******** using reverse psychology to hurt their competitors?

I think this is more to sell their own motherboards than to sell more Nvidia graphics cards

Is this an indication of how good AMD think their 7000 cards will be that they have to add in multi GPU support for a competitor's product to make their new motherboards attractive?