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PhysX games worth buying Nvidia for?

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A few threads recently have been asking about PhysX and is it worth it or is it justified. I personaly wouldn't buy Nvidia GPUs because of it (very nice effects though) and did some research into what games actually used it. I was quite surprised at a couple of them like Metro 2033 and Alice: Madness returns (I am noob to PhysX).

Games coming out with PhysX are:

Hawken (I think looks sweet)


Lost Planet 3


Planetside 2


and Arma 3 (looks gorgeous)


I am curious to know if any of you with or without Nvidia cards feel the effects that come with PhysX are actually worth going for? Even to the point of what Tommybhoy does and run a hybrid system (AMD GPU + Nvidia GPU dedicated to PhysX).

No fanboy talk please, just thoughts on PhysX.
 
Physx is simply not worthwhile unless you can get a physx card cheap and actually intend to play physx games predominantly.

It'll just add heat to the case, i suppose it'd be pretty worthwhile if watercooled though
 
The only games I've played so far that left me feeling glad that I had an Nvidia card was Borderlands 2, and to a lesser extent, Mafia 2 and Batman AA. It's nice to have the option of it, but it wouldn't sway my choice of purchase. :)
 
Arma III just looks stunning! Excuse my ignorance (as I didn't have the volume on or have a really good look at it) but which parts in that video are physx enabled?

Physx is growing, some games use it well (borderlands 2) some games its quite pointless (batman games). Which I suppose is more down to the developers then Nvidia.

Is the hybrid setup a pain to set up?
 
For me the effects look sweet in some games but it is also something if I didn't have it, I could live without but the hybrid system I liked the idea of and heat would be a factor but in bigger cases, I could see it not being a problem.
 
PhysX games worth buying Nvidia for?

Only if it's priced competitively with it's counterpart or very little more.

I really do enjoy it most of the time, after all, don't we spend a lot of cash for the candy(yes, I'm looking at you greg;))?

The new Alien game has PhysX too iirc, but I don't have a clue if it's cpu or gpu PhysX.

I'm still waiting for this though:

tommybhoy said:
Star Wars: 1313 Gameplay is seriously looking the business(straight to the good bit!):


Looking like the devs are getting geared up for the next gen consoles, so they are using the PC to get some pretty pretty going on at long last!

The dev said that the demo was developed on the PC using Nvidia hardware and noticed that it's looking like a lot of PhysX is going on.

Since I'm a sad SW's fan(that can't be bothered with mmo's at all), if it is indeed full of PhysX goodness, then it looks like I'll be going to the 'green side' next time(don't really care if PhysX is worth it or not, I'll want it and I'll have it god damn it!)!

May the force be with you...
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tommybhoy said:
PhysX games worth buying Nvidia for?

Only if it's priced competitively with it's counterpart or very little more.

I really do enjoy it most of the time, after all, don't we spend a lot of cash for the candy(yes, I'm looking at you greg;))?

The new Alien game has PhysX too iirc, but I don't have a clue if it's cpu or gpu PhysX.

I'm still waiting for this though:
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Absoloutely Tommy. I bought my 680 purely as it was the best at the time and PhysX was down the list of priorities but after seeing some of the effects, I am not so sure I should have PhysX that low. I also love Star Wars and CBA with MMO style games (I don't have the time) but so not a fan of the 3rd person shooters. That does look awsome though and will be buying :)

majnu said:
PhysX is beautiful


:D
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Last light looks stunning Majnu. I bet it requires some serious GPUage to run it though.
 
I look forward to trying StarWars and Last Light. Heck I've still not played Metro2033, Crysis 2/Warhead and a load of others. PhysX while I couldn't care less about it, I'll use it if possible but I doubt I'm going to be experiencing much of it. Nice feature but useless without the support and is why I've never bought regarding the use of PhysX and I don't think I ever will. Nvidia buying Agiea was pointless IMO as Nvidia have never really tried to make much use of it. They can twist dev's arms for DX10.1 spec, even Microsoft with Vista DX10 spec but they won't push dev's to make use of this Nvidia feature? :confused:.

Regardless, for those who like PhysX and enjoy it, I'm not trying to take away anything you've said. I'm only stating my opinion that I'm not a fan or even bothered about it.
 
Borderlands 2, been playing this with a friend and had to turn physx to low because at times it was getting in the way of the action with so much stuff flying around because im sure the baddies are not hindered visually by the stuff flying around putting me at a big disadvantage.
 
erm great so hawken which ill be using with my oculus rift uses physx! gadddddamnit im team red. Well might as well cancel that oculus rift and hawken preorder until nvidias 7 series comes out because i am not switching away from amd on this round of cards nooo way.
 
If GX670 drop to 7950 price range then may be; until then no way.

Or since this gen is going to be EOL soon, I certainly wouldn't want AMD do the next gen with the same approach of "cards on the shelf first, drivers performance later". If AMD can launch their new cards with reasonbly good performance driver rather than crap performance driver like the 79xx cards did, it would force Nvidia to deliver better performing cards and doesn't give them the chace to optimisically rebranding their mid/mid-high range cards to high-end.
 
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Physx is nice but I certainly wouldn't base my choice of GPU off one. I always just look at performance/price, and the is unfortunately where Nvidia falls over. until Nvidia card prices are reduced to bring them into line or cheaper than their AMD counterparts I will not consider them.
 
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