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NVIDIA Ageia PhysX driver is here

I get an error when trying to install the Nvidia Physx drivers in the first post. "Error 1316. A network error occurred while attempting to read from file: XXXXXXXX".
 
Well after fixing the problem and installing Nvidias own Physx drivers, the tech demos they supply with it work. They are all from the "Dark Physics" game and include fluid, cloth breaking, rigid body, metal deform and soft bodies.

Dunno if the CUDA drivers did anything, so if someone could try the drivers in the first post without installing the Nvidia CUDA drivers, then we should see if they are the right ones.

I tried the Carwash demo, but it didn't work properly. The Physx control panel detects no Physx Hardware either, so i dunno if that just means there is no dedicated Physx card, or that the CUDA driver doesn't work.

The fact that Nvidia released their own Physx drivers should mean that they are nearing the release of the proper CUDA drivers. I hope :D
 
Pottsey said:
The drivers are going to keep coming as they are needed for CPU owners who play Physx games. This is why I have been saying the PPU card is not dead but got its life extended.
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Perhaps if it wasn't nvidia that now own physx. They have enough difficulty releasing drivers for any of their graphics cards that are older than about a week :p
 
so correct me if im wrong
u can now have physx in games even if you dont have a physx card ?
all you have to do is download these drivers ??
am i correct or very very incorrect
 
if you play a physx enabled game, its allready installed.

these are just nvidia branded with some update engines (or atleast looks like there is)

Its just a step closer to the gfx card driver release which has not happened yet.
 
This thread is full of people who seem to think that nVidia are going to release a simple driver that will turn their G80 or G92 GPU into a fully fledged PPU....

Thats like expecting Intel to release a driver update that allows you to run Crysis on full using only a Core2Duo to write the graphics!

They are different hardware. They may release drivers that allow the GPU to maybe help with the software Physix application, but dont expect it to make the GPU do all the GPU work AND all the PPU work.
 
Skeeter said:
Thats like expecting Intel to release a driver update that allows you to run Crysis on full using only a Core2Duo to write the graphics!
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Hardly.

The Physx rendering will be done on spare stream processors and not in the ROPs, I doubt it will use up many at all so with the large amount of stream processors these cards have there should be no real issue with rendering both at the same time.

The Physx hardware is not complicated at all.
 
Skeeter said:
This thread is full of people who seem to think that nVidia are going to release a simple driver that will turn their G80 or G92 GPU into a fully fledged PPU....

Thats like expecting Intel to release a driver update that allows you to run Crysis on full using only a Core2Duo to write the graphics!

They are different hardware. They may release drivers that allow the GPU to maybe help with the software Physix application, but dont expect it to make the GPU do all the GPU work AND all the PPU work.
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I think you need to visit the Nvidia site and read about CUDA.
 
Agreed ^

Also It's not just a case of the cards helping out or whatever. It's a case of a full port of the API to CUDA.
 
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