NVIDIA Launches PhysX! - Discuss

[harris1986]

appologies if this has already been posted but -

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=560&pgno=0

whats peoples thoughts + rections

 

[Nymins]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17888079

Only supports some cards atm so we all cant really say how it will perform. The drivers are also press leaks, so they are not final.

 

[MinDBlanK]

GPU acceleration of PhysX is currently supported only in 3DMark Vantage and Unreal Tournament 3. Future games that will support GPU acceleration of PhysX include :

Mstar
Mirrors Edge
Empire : Total War
Backbreaker
Pwnage

Spoiled for choice there!

I've had the PhysX drivers installed for a while now, but I dont remember installing them. I dont have a PhysX card but do have an 8800. Were they installed with my drivers??

Would they have stuck the drivers in a driver release before this artical? (im confused now!)

 

[harris1986]

physx isn't enabled in the 8x series atm as far as i can see

 

[RaiderX]

it would have been installed with any PhysX enabled game

 

[MinDBlanK]

I wouldn't have thought they would have worked, just confused as to why their there. Dont remember playing any of those games.

 

[Azza]

physx isn't enabled in the 8x series atm as far as i can see

You need a modified ini file for it to work on other cards than the GTX280/260 & 9800GTX/+.

Which isnt hard to find.

 

[Nymins]

You need a modified ini file for it to work on other cards than the GTX280/260 & 9800GTX/+.

Which isnt hard to find.

The inf only works for the drivers, not the actual Physx software unfortunately. They will release it for all cards when they get official drivers up.

 

[Greebo]

physx isn't enabled in the 8x series atm as far as i can see

Old 8 series, g92 8 series works fine

 

[Metalface Mark]

The inf only works for the drivers, not the actual Physx software unfortunately. They will release it for all cards when they get official drivers up.

The physx software works when you have the modded inf done. I have it working on my 8800gts g92.

Unreal 3 physx levels look really nice too.

 

[helmutcheese]

Dont on G80, thats to come later.

 

[Rroff]

The physx drivers will install on any G92 or onwards based cards without any modification aslong as your drivers support CUDA (which I think most very recent 170 series do).

You do seem to get better performance tho with the 177.39 (with modded inf for older cards).

 

[mmj_uk]

Is ATI able to license Physx GPU support?

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Nvidia have already offered Physx to ATI, physx is open source afaik.

Its upto ATI to adapt Physx/CUDA to ATI's own gpgpu system.

 

[Mr Paul]

ATI can use PhysX and Havok as far as I know. But most likely Havok.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

They may as well get the PhysX for free of Nvidia, then be best of both worlds, as they'll be doing both.

 

[kylew]

They may as well get the PhysX for free of Nvidia, then be best of both worlds, as they'll be doing both.

Which'd be win win anyway for ATi and NV. If they can support it, then there's no reason they shouldn't, in my opinion. I'm hoping they do as I've been interested to play games with PhysX, but never thought it was worth the price of buying a PPU.

 

[stephen.collins]

This has got to be good news all round. Proper physics in games has got to be the next big thing surely?

 

[Rroff]

Well doesn't seem to work with cellfactor yet... it just tries to initialise the old PPU and fails - falling back to software physx. I get the impression things will need to rebuilt with the newer SDK for them to work with it

 

[psychas]

if it was been released plz show us benchmarks ghost recon 2 with physics on and Unreal tournament 3 with physics on