Nvidia PhysX Tech Enabled - Download Tech demos

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PhysX technology has finally been enabled on all Geforce cards (8 series and above). Some tech demos have been released by Nvidia, you can download them here.

Starting today, any owner of a GeForce 8 Series or higher GPU can immediately discover the immersive playability that NVIDIA PhysX technology brings to PC gaming. This first of many planned "GeForce Power Packs" is a fascinating showcase of how PhysX technology is fundamentally changing video games and interactive entertainment.

Available for free from http://www.nvidia.com/theforcewithin, the PhysX-enabled content from this first GeForce Power Pack includes:

-- Warmonger -- Full free game! Destroy walls, floors, and whole buildings to open up new paths or close existing ones. Destructive power is more than eye candy here-it's a tactical weapon in this ground-breaking action game.

-- Unreal Tournament 3 PhysX Mod Pack-includes three maps with amazing effects that fundamentally change the gameplay (requires full version of Unreal Tournament 3)

-- A sneak peek at the upcoming Nurien social networking service, based on the Unreal Engine 3 (with built-in benchmark)

-- A sneak peek at the upcoming game Metal Knight Zero (with built-in benchmark)

-- All new NVIDIA "The Great Kulu" tech demo that showcases the use of PhysX soft bodies in a real game play environment

-- All new NVIDIA "Fluid" tech demo-a simulation of realistic fluid effects with a variety of liquids
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Just installed the drivers for my 8800GTX. About to install the various games and demos I've never heard of now.
 
Liquid Fluid Demo: Hardly impressive.
Metal Knight Demo: Made me LOL. It looked awful and not at all impressive. You'll see what I mean.
Nuriens Demo: Neat, boobehs! :D
Great Kulu: Crashed on Vista x64 whilst tentacle thing chased me benny hill style.
Warmonger: Interesting but I couldn't see much use of physics there aside from being able to knock down walls. During install the game tries to install Gamespy bloat so be aware!
 
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Just got a BSOD after five minutes of Warmonger, I fail to see exactly what it is doing that a CPU couldn't do. Not tried it online yet though, could be a hoot.

I actually quite liked the liquid fluid demo, although more interactivity would have been nice. Gonna try some more later.

Edit: Does folding@home perform significantly better with GPU PhysX than it would with a common CPU (eg. My E6300 @3Ghz)?
 
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Lyon85 said:
Just got a BSOD after five minutes of Warmonger, I fail to see exactly what it is doing that a CPU couldn't do. Not tried it online yet though, could be a hoot.

I actually quite liked the liquid fluid demo, although more interactivity would have been nice. Gonna try some more later.

Edit: Does folding@home perform significantly better with GPU PhysX than it would with a common CPU (eg. My E6300 @3Ghz)?
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It doesn't use GPU PhysX, it uses CUDA and yes it's extremely effective, a G80 card should equal over 4000 points per day, the GTX 280 can hit 7000+ points per day, versus about 1200 max for that CPU. Look at the folding stats page to see how powerful the GPU's are, they are doing more processing than all PS3s combined, and there are 4 times more PS3s folding.
 
Kainz said:
Seen a lot of 'fluidic' demos and videos many, many times over the years. That did nothing for me. Even most of my mates agreed that a lot of the stuff here was pretty poor.
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I agree that the rest is pretty boring, but it is the best fluid demo i have seen before. Really wish they would patch Cellfactor to make it work.
 
Talrinys said:
It doesn't use GPU PhysX, it uses CUDA and yes it's extremely effective, a G80 card should equal over 4000 points per day, the GTX 280 can hit 7000+ points per day, versus about 1200 max for that CPU. Look at the folding stats page to see how powerful the GPU's are, they are doing more processing than all PS3s combined, and there are 4 times more PS3s folding.
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CUDA... right. I'm going to have to read up on what these drivers are actually doing I think. Thanks for the reply.
 
Don't suppose there's an alternate place to download these? I can't get the download manager to work in either firefox or ie, and the direct download doesn't work on either (the box drops down but there's no links in it).
 
"Seen a lot of 'fluidic' demos and videos many, many times over the years. That did nothing for me. Even most of my mates agreed that a lot of the stuff here was pretty poor."
The difference being, those demos and videos where done on super computers or not in real time. These demos are done on a 3dcard. There has been nothing anywhere near this that I am aware off that works on a home computer before in realtime. Apart from some of the older PPU stuff.

Anyone saying the liquids are hardly impressive do not understand it. If its all been seen before please show me links.

Now the Metal Knight Demo you have a point if you say that's unimpressive.
 
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