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NVIDIA Removes Restriction on ATI GPUs with NVIDIA GPUs Processing PhysX

Greebo said:
Thing is you just keep using the driver which works that doesn't have the restrictions.
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What happens when that driver doesn't support a game that comes out in the future? To even consider it I would need confirmation from NV that it's been done intentionally and it's here to stay.

Also, anyone know what happens to my two 16x slots on my GA-X58A-UD3 when I put a 240 in one of the 8x slots, do they become 8x slots as well or is that only if I was to go tri-fire?
 
This probably just means somebody with brains at Nvidia realised that alienating some 35% of your target market is not a good sales tactic.
 
I installed these and hardware physx is definitely working.

I was hoping to be able to set my 9600gt to handle cuda also (as that is mentioned in the notes being able to select which GPU handles cuda) but I dont see that option in the Nvidia control panel.

Going to Just Cause 2 also I dont get the option to enable the cuda effects so I guess it doesnt work.
 
Out of interest how do you get a nvidia card to work with an ATI card? Do you just plug the Physx card into another PCI-e slot without any other connectors? Does it need to be connected to the monitor etc.
 
straxusii said:
I installed these and hardware physx is definitely working.

I was hoping to be able to set my 9600gt to handle cuda also (as that is mentioned in the notes being able to select which GPU handles cuda) but I dont see that option in the Nvidia control panel.

Going to Just Cause 2 also I dont get the option to enable the cuda effects so I guess it doesnt work.
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The CUDA option is there under 3D Settings for me but trying to change the selection just crashes the control panel (and with nVidia cards in the system for rendering it just does CUDA on the first card anyway). Hopefully something thats fixed in the WHQL release.
 
JCBeastie said:
I'm sure this move has nothing to do with the fact that Manju Hegde (CUDA/PhysX developer and former CEO of Ageia) has left nVidia to join ATi.
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you're probably right.

nvidia doesnt want ati to have access to cuda/physx. Manju leaves nvidia for ati and so nvidia get back at him by allowing the company him now works for to have access...


oh wait
 
KelticDaz said:
Out of interest how do you get a nvidia card to work with an ATI card? Do you just plug the Physx card into another PCI-e slot without any other connectors? Does it need to be connected to the monitor etc.
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ditto that

I have a 8800gts i could try...how do you set it up
 
KelticDaz said:
Out of interest how do you get a nvidia card to work with an ATI card? Do you just plug the Physx card into another PCI-e slot without any other connectors? Does it need to be connected to the monitor etc.
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well when i had a gtx260 as my main gpu and a 9800gt for physx, i used an sli bridge and dvi cable from main gpu to monitor. this worked fine.

without the sli bridge though id would not display physx unless i connected both cards to the monitor. (one was dvi and the other was vga)


not sure how it would work with an ati card and an nvidia physx card. probably by connecting them both to monitor i guess. can anyone confirm this????????????
 
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