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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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“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. Was there even a benchmark that showed the PPU slowed down FPS in UT? I remeber seeing the minimum FPS going from 15 to 30+ but I would hardly call that a fail.

Anyway this is great news. Hardware physics could finely be taking off. With a bit of luck we should start seeing far better physics in games. With Havok FX dieing it looks like Physx has won. I hope this means we will see lots of high end Physx based games over the next few years and beyound.
 
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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.
 
Pottsey said:
Funny how the benchmarks showed the PPU boosts FPS sometimes as much as 100% not slowed down overall FPS.
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He probably means that the FPS is lower when 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.*
 
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.
 
Oh well...i'd allmost struggle to find many people that care. Nice idea, rediculously poor product. Give it a while and it will be onboard and better than before.

- Pea0n
 
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?
 
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And I'm looking forward to the driver update which gives Physx support if that is how they're doing it?
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Im guessing it will be via this. No other way to do it really. Hopefully the performance drop will be small for single card users.
 
“He probably means that the FPS is lower when 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.”
But there are no PPU effects in UT3; you cannot turn the PPU effects off due to there being none which means you cannot lose FPS from PPU effects.

There are two options. Use a PPU and gain FPS. Don’t use a PPU and don’t gain FPS. Why is that so hard to understand? How does plugging in a PPU and FPS going up equal FPS lower in your mind?




“Didn't he always say effects could never be achieved on the GPU/CPU? ”
Nope never said that at least not about the GPU. I did say it about the CPU.
 
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.
 
Pottsey.

If it was worth it, PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BOUGH IT. I would have, most of this forum would have!

The fact that a handful of people DO have it and the fact they have just cancelled it means I 100% bet it wasn't making any sort of money except from some stupid OEMs who thought it a good idea.

Success requires sales, the card DID NOT sell lots, so its not a success in any shape or form.
 
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.
 
I can see this thread becoming another re-hashed PPU debate...

Why don't you just agree to disagree? Pottsey, we all know your love for the PPU and i applaud your cast iron will for standing by it. I would have liked to see it succeed, but i think we will eventually see SLI being implemented with the PhysX api, effectively meaning the PPU will be ressurected, all be it in graphics card form.

Don't you all just love technology! :D
 
Tom|Nbk said:
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.
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Actually in UT3 it does speed up the game, I bought a PhysX card the other week (as it was cheap and I had money to burn), and my UT3 fps went up across the board.

It is however the only major game to use it well, and i've seen no evidence of any other game making good use of the card at all.

It seems supprising nVidia won't be bringing out add in cards tho, they could have mopped up if it does take off in CUDA, as all the ATi folks would want one to suppliment their GPU's inability to use PhysX...
 
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?

It seems supprising nVidia won't be bringing out add in cards tho, they could have mopped up if it does take off in CUDA, as all the ATi folks would want one to suppliment their GPU's inability to use PhysX...
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yes it seems like a wasted opportunity on nvidia half.
 
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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.
 
he certainly is. and we will see, wont we tom. you need to grow up, as ive said before. helmut isnt the olny person you like to try and wind up.
 
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