To PhysX or not to PhysX that is the drunk man's question

[Akagi]

You are quite right, my apologies.

Sell it or stick it in a box

 

[Siegehammer]

Yeah I'm either going to sell it or perhaps stick it in an old pc for the GF.

 

[tres_kun]

If you use a weak card for PhysX the performance drops
You need a decent card for PhysX or do not use at all

 

[Arthur Hucksake]

Was playing Borderlands 2 earlier, thought id see what the Titan does with it.

120fps vsync locked, when it gets real hectic with people dying everywhere on fire or melting, it dropped to lows of 80. Wowsome I thought but then something occurred to me.

Physx on high was INFURIATING. It's outright ridiculous in that game, so I turned it down.

I think it's overrated and not much of a selling point.

 

[Akagi]

Was playing Borderlands 2 earlier, thought id see what the Titan does with it.

120fps vsync locked, when it gets real hectic with people dying everywhere on fire or melting, it dropped to lows of 80. Wowsome I thought but then something occurred to me.

Physx on high was INFURIATING. It's outright ridiculous in that game, so I turned it down.

I think it's overrated and not much of a selling point.

You don't like the goo and the destructible cloth?

That's the best bit

Perfect for trolling my ATI/AMD owning mates on co-op. "Did you see that awesome explosion? Wow look at that goo!" - "Didn't look that awesome to me... What goo?"

 

[d_brennen]

Honestly, this is the last time I want to hear such comments.

Dead duck? When there are future titles coming out with physx and the next gen consoles will also have physx support?

The only thing I wouldn’t do is buy a separate card just to run physx. It'll run fine on non dedicated cards.

lol, ok. Physx may be supported but that's just to appease those who have implemented it already in games that may or may not make the PS4. It won't be hardware accelerated and therefore will have to survive on the same metrics as other software solutions. When there is a bulging list of AAA Physx enabled games doing things that can't be done with any other physics API, I'll eat my laptop. Physx is a dead duck

He was talking about PhysX, not physics. They're different things. PhysX isn't the only physics API used in games.

Quite

 

[BlackBat]

Has gpu PhysX been confirmed by Sony/MS for the PS4/720?

No, AMD will be powering the PS4 and it is rumoured, the Xbox 720. AFAIK AMD use Havoc physics not PhysX. So as far as the next gen. consoles go, PhysX maybe dead but physics may not.

 

[Orcvader]

No, AMD will be powering the PS4 and it is rumoured, the Xbox 720. AFAIK AMD use Havoc physics not PhysX. So as far as the next gen. consoles go, PhysX maybe dead but physics may not.

AMD will be powering it but the PS4 is indeed getting PhysX: http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/Releas...uter-Entertainment-s-PlayStation-R-4-941.aspx

This actually suprised me considering how well the Havok demo looked during the PS4 event.

So the PS4 will use both PhysX and Havok physics API, depending on what the developer chooses. Because of this I can't see PhsyX losing popularity any time soon.

On the other hand this just shows PhysX can perfectly work on AMD systems, just either Nvidia refusing to licence to AMD or AMD refusing to buy a licence... No one will never know .

 

[BlackBat]

Well I obviously didn't know that, by the looks of it and considering it'll be AMD hardware, I guess it's software PhysX just like Havoc is.

 

[Akagi]

On the other hand this just shows PhysX can perfectly work on AMD systems, just either Nvidia refusing to licence to AMD or AMD refusing to buy a licence... No one will never know .

Or there could be a little dedicated PhysX processor?