playing GRAW 2 with no physx card, but with effects!

[Sinny]

i was just woundering what people thought of this i might just purchase 1, but didnt know OcUK had the own brand http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-066-OK&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=594
sorry fot hijacking the thread

Buy yourself something more usefull, until something actually creditable comes out and is worth forking out for one of these, they are still unproven untill they become mainstream component. with Quad core processors and the Penryn coming out, processors will have an even better grasp on physics processing, i have nothing against ageia but for £80 i can think of a lot more places to spend my money

 

[Final8y]

“It takes the strain from the cpu for physics only & does not help out the gpu”
Can I play devils advocate for a min
In a roundabout way it can help the GPU. By taking strain off the CPU the CPU is free to provide data to the GPU faster. Providing more data to the GPU faster means it can get on with its job so your FPS goes up. Otherwise your GPU is sitting there waiting for the CPU. Its like when you have a slow CPU and upgrade the 3dcard your FPS don’t increase as the CPU cannot provide enough data to use the extra power of the.

If your in a CPU limited game or program then the GPU is sitting there waiting for the CPU so your not get best performance out your GPU. If its not CPU limited the GPU is running at full speed. Its all about bottlenecks and speeding up the slowest area.

Potentially to do what you say when they use it that way.
Atm its used more for added eye candy & that hits the gpu & not helps it.

 

[Pottsey]

“Atm its used more for added eye candy & that hits the gpu & not helps it.”
Added eye candy is optional in pretty much all the games, you can choose to use it just to offload from the CPU. Also in the areas where you don’t get extra candy your boosting FPS as the physics are still offloaded.

Some games even with the extra eye candy you get a FPS boost as your still offloading from the CPU.





“Maybe true, but at least the processors will give an improvement, in each and every single game,”
That’s not always true. Less games support quad cores then PPU games. A game has to be coded to use quad core.

 

[Madblaster6]

So i gues you guys don't use vista do you?

 

[Pottsey]

I use Vista never going back to XP now I know how to set it up Vista correctly.Who’s stupid idea was it to have high performance turned off by default in Vista? A few clicks of the button to swap to high performance and its much better.

 

[Madblaster6]

I use Vista never going back to XP now I know how to set it up Vista correctly.Who’s stupid idea was it to have high performance turned off by default in Vista? A few clicks of the button to swap to high performance and its much better.

Yea i got the game on high easy but that's because i use the 8800 gts. sorry. Befor some patches it didn't let me though? Right now my main goal is to play on agia island. I can't figure it out on vist. The Xp people don't want to figure out how to do it on Vista.

 

[Pottsey]

“Yea i got the game on high easy but that's because i use the 8800 gts.”
I meant high in Vista not the game. By default Vista has high performance mode switched off and various other settings like hard disk enhanced performance is turned off. Turning them all on makes a large diffrance.

 

[BlackDragon]

Makes sense it would work ok. When i was at i31, a developer from GRIN was demonstrating the multi-core capabilities of the game. Physics got like an entire core to itself if you had quad core.

 

[Madblaster6]

“Yea i got the game on high easy but that's because i use the 8800 gts.”
I meant high in Vista not the game. By default Vista has high performance mode switched off and various other settings like hard disk enhanced performance is turned off. Turning them all on makes a large diffrance.

So how do u sugest i turn it up? I mean the full performance?

 

[Pottsey]

At work so I cannot give you precise instructions. But someone along the lines of go into power save mode and turn it from balanced to high performance.

Then press windows key + pause/break to get to system, device manager, hard disks, policies, enhanced performance. Both made a diffrance for me.