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R.I.P Physx Hardware

Tom|Nbk

Tom|Nbk

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A brief tribute..

I'd like to take this moment to remember the Physx hardware. Physx hardware started life around 2005-2006, dead in the water from the start Physx brought out various pointless tech demos in order to try and shift the hardware.

Numerous mind numbing games also featured the 'effects' which were hardly mindblowing to start with. The most recently being UT3 which had various epic fail effects which even slowed down the overall FPS.

Loved by no one except Pottsey it is time to wave good by to the Physx Hardware and remember the much loved bitching we had about it.

I'd like to take one last moment to reflect on the fail.

RIP

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Pottsey said:
“The most recently being UT3 which had various epic fail effects which even slowed down the overall FPS.”
Funny how the benchmarks showed the PPU boosts FPS sometimes as much as 100% not slowed down overall FPS. Minimum FPS sometimes even doubled.
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There there. Difficult times. You're getting confused an all. :p

I've heard various reports of slow down when using Physx, may have possibly changed with patches or whatever. Either way Physx has met it's grizzly end at last.
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
He means compared to the pointless PPU effects being off, which is whateveryone has always meant except you. I don't see why you still don't understand this.

*Lights a candle in memory of the most useless hardware to grace the PC gaming platform.*
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Exactly. Go easy on the lad Ulf.

Didn't he always say effects like those of the Physx could never be achieved on the GPU/CPU? ;)

Touching tribute Ulf.
 
The hardware was a lemon from the start if they had priced it sensibly for a kick off it might of actually stood a chance at taking off.

I'm GLAD NVIDIA have the reigns now.

And I'm looking forward to the driver update which gives Physx support if that is how they're doing it?
 
Pottsey I do remember you saying the Physx card would handle physics better than a GPU but this obviously can't be the case right otherwise they wouldn't have killed them off.
 
No getting around the fact the hardware failed massively. I'm just glad NVIDIA bought them out and kept the company/api alive. It does interest me but the Physics as an add in card just was not welcome in this market.

Laughing stock I'm afraid, now we can look forward to some progression. NVIDIA buying Agiea was the best bit of luck they've had in a long time.
 
james.miller said:
i love the way people will use this as an excuse to kick it to Pottsey, immediately forgetting pottsey himself has said many times over that the hardware was poorly marketed and poorly executed. Pottsey is a fan of physix in general and that extend past the hardware itself, which interestingly enough isnt being killed off, is it?

at the end of the day, physix will live on, just as nvidia have planned. and at the end of the day, pottsey will still be here giving us our updates on the state of physic acceleration. i wonder, what will your excuse be to have a dig then?
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I love the way you jump to massive conclusions. Please get a grip James. No one is trying to lay into Pottsey and as he's shown he's fully capable of fighting his own battles.
 
james.miller said:
yes it seems like a wasted opportunity on nvidia half.
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A wasted oppourtunity?? LOL. What do you think the ATi folks will do if they want Physx?, they will buy the NVIDIA GPU's and we all know this is much better than buying some tat add on card with a low markup and no doubt high production cost, it will sell more GPU's and increase market share thus hurting ATi more.

I saw this coming.
 
It means good things for NVIDIA I definetely agree.

Infact Agiea and NVIDIA benefited from this :D. I'm glad it's happened.
 
james.miller said:
wrong. a physix card, done right, is somethign that would cost peanuts to build and something that could make a killing on. for all those people who would choose amd over intel, it would still be an option = more money for nvidia. its not as straight forward as kill off the cards and hope people will make a switch.


i think everybody saw this coming.
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Clearly not, they've had years to have it 'done right' and refine the process. I think the NVIDIA marketing heads have a little more knowledge than you and hence the reason that the PPU was dropped.

The PPU had a bad reputation which even NVIDIA wouldn't be able to turn round IMO. Encoding the API into CUDA is the best thing to have happened for NVIDIA in recent times. They will sell more GPU's for this FACT.

Infact, the GPU's will have a higher markup than the PPU so this makes perfect sense.
 
james.miller said:
wrong. a physix card, done right, is somethign that would cost peanuts to build and something that could make a killing on. for all those people who would choose amd over intel, it would still be an option = more money for nvidia. its not as straight forward as kill off the cards and hope people will make a switch.


i think everybody saw this coming.


child.
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James, the only child here is you with your over reacting and twisting of words and creating problems which don't even exist, but hey keep coming out with this and maybe one day you'll win a debate :).
 
Lightnix said:
On another note, I think it's good that Ageia got bought by nVidia rather than them becoming little but a patent troll like some companies do (*coughrambuscough*).

And again, on the graphics front, this presents an extremely complicated situation... Intel (larabee) and nVidia will have the physics argument for their graphics hardware, however, Intel and AMD are likely to show mutual support when it comes to multi-GPU configurations on their chipsets with nvidia being the 'loner' in that department.
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I'm wondering what ATi's answer to this will be. Havok FX has been ditched so this poses a big problem to them ATM.

Cheers for getting it back OT.
 
The thread is about the card hence the title. :)

"R.I.P Physx Hardware"

OT : Paul get on MSN I want to pick your brains about the X2 :)
 
No, the card will still be supported and will more than likely have a seperate update rolled out to that of the NVIDIA users. The one thing that changes is the cease of the Physx cards production.
 
Scougar said:
Thankyou Tom. I was thought it was slightly hypocritical considering how you go at other people for this sort of thing, and then you (ok, I admit he seems like the ONLY physx supporter :D) have a bait at Pottsey. Your right, it wasn't exactly a decent contribution.... baiter :p ;)

It is common business practice to assimilate other companies for their tech, just to get it out the way. It makes this purchase curious, especially considering they are only going to use the software side of it. I personally haven't looked into what the CUDA is used for, but do wonder where it will go from here. Will it be used to try and get an edge over AMD's GPU programming you think?

Matthew
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CUDA is the programming language used by the NVIDIA GPU's :)
 
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