NVIDIA DirectX 11 Questionnaire – A Response to AMD’s Views

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http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/2...ionnaire_a_response_to_amd_s_views/index.html

 

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hmm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwAz-us-uNg&fmt=22

Personally I haven't seen anything like that in any other game so far.

Its not very realistic in the way it drops back down & there would more dispersal.

 

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Depends on ambient temperature and other temps, humidity, etc.

Nope as it moves around on the way up then moves straight down even tho there are fans behind.

 

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If your gonna be picky they aren't exactly fast moving fans - they wouldn't alone be producing enough airflow to move the steam at all unless it was very close to the vanes (which makes them kinda useless).

Put it this way i have never seen steam fall like under any conditions.

 

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It is a bit odd... to skip a lot of science the steam would have to have a higher density/lower temperature than the surrounding environment to sink like that, so it wouldn't kick up so much when disturbed...

Its still much nicer tho than any smoke/steam I've seen to date.

I will not be dedicating a GPU for it.

 

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PhysX Destruction Demo - fermi
Far too many small fragments & it blows out like explosives & not a body hitting it.

 

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For a (human) body to do that kinda damage to that kinda wall it would have to have massive amounts of kinetic energy... the demo isn't supposed to be taken literal the ragdolls are just representative of objects hitting a wall.

It does not look like anything hitting a wall but explosives.

 

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Its getting warmer because the clocks are up and so are the volts, on desktop with powerplay its 33c idle.

Just tried it with physx off and was 40% GPU usage, with 4xAA 70%, so monitoring is fine.

So in theory physx on is hogging the CPU so much that there is not enough left to feed the GPU, so your GPU usage is down but your CPU usage should be way up.

 

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Its getting warmer because the clocks are up and so are the volts, on desktop with powerplay its 33c idle.

Just tried it with physx off and was 40% GPU usage, with 4xAA 70%, so monitoring is fine.

There is a patch for the CPU Physx & a trick to get the in game AA to work on ATI cards using 3DAnalyse.

I'm sure i posted it here already but my post seems to have been deleted & i would like to know why.
If in fact I'm in error & have not posted it i will do so later.

 

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I dont get why people cant just embrace it, if it makes games look and feel good surly its a good thing along side DX11

Hopefully ATI will get in on physx so this can push it on to newer and more titles.

All what you said has already been answered many times over & the likelihood is no.

 

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I went to the 3D gaming event yesterday and there was an nVidia representative there bigging up nVidia as much as he could.

He was nice guy and all, before he started the nVidia script.

He was raging about CUDA and how great it is so I asked him, "well isn't CUDA somewhat obsolete once OpenCL and DirectCompute are out?"

His response was "actually, that's a very good point, but you still need CUDA approved hardware to run OpenCL and DirectCompte.

I asked him why he said this because OpenCL and DC are designed to be open standards that are to run on any hardware.

He had a mini rant about how ATi haven't brought out any drivers supporting them while nVidia has been supporting them since early 2009, which I said is irrelevant due to windows 7 not being official yet, there's no reason to be boasting about supporting them before Win 7 has been released.

Nice one.
Putting it straight with no BS or mucking about...great.

 

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AMD and Intel could for example disable support for Nvidia graphics cards for their processors. After all, the CPU and GPU is interdependent and it’s hard and expensive for them to test their processors with all possible configurations involving Nvidia cards. I’m sure they want to be able to ensure a great experience for their own customers, and the only way I can see that happening is to disable Nvidia hardware. It’s good to know that Nvidia will support such a decision completely.