Comments on: PhysX-on-a-GeForce: Next Week

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:31:57 +0000

I’m excited if only because I’ll finaly get to play the PhysX Labs on Crazy Machines. Crazy slowdown in that if you’re not careful.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:56:12 +0000

I’m kind of annoyed that the cutoff is the next generation of cards past what I actually have, but I’m definitely excited about the potential of this. The thing is, they’re supporting three generations of card already with this, so I wouldn’t expect it to take more than another generation or so for games to start making serious use of the PhysX capabilities. And I wouldn’t be surprised to see them as a luxury item in more games starting now – after all, a significant proportion of gamers can’t do DX10, but DX10 support is still included in many games coming out now. And more people will be able to do PhysX with this out than can do DX10.

By: DSX

DSX — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:27:42 +0000

My 7900 gtx runs games superbly… I’m smelling nvidia taking a page from MS’s DX10 shenanagans with vista to sell more cards.

By: Rook

Rook — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:56:07 +0000

ATi/AMD and physics is all very confusing. ATi were working with Havok to use GPU physics, but that kinda died a quiet death and Intel bought out Havok. Now AMD (having bought ATi) is working with Havok on CPU physics.

I think there’s a group who are trying to get PhysX running on ATi GPUs that now have some semi-official backing from ATi though.

By: MaxMcG

MaxMcG — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:48:30 +0000

I thought ATI were working on their own version of it. I seem to remember something about the new cards being able to run it, once the drivers were done.

Maybe it’s just in my head.

By: KindredPhantom

KindredPhantom — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:21:16 +0000

Sounds like it’ll be interesting.

By: KC

KC — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:00:38 +0000

the 32-bit physx drivers work fine on 64-bit vista, the drivers in question for nvidia are actually downloadable through their beta page, and yes, they have 64-bit drivers.

it’s cellforce that crashes with the .net 2.0 error, its not a .net problem its actually something else

By: feffrey

feffrey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:48:49 +0000

I hope 64 bit drivers come out at the same time also. I hate waiting longer for drivers.

By: Vanderdecken

Vanderdecken — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:29:01 +0000

@Chemix: drop along to the PC Gamer (UK, natch, http://www.computerandvideogames.com/sites/pcgamer/) forums, hit up the tech folder and we’ll see if a little advice is forthcoming.

@Monkfish: ta for the info, I’ll be following this story with great interest as a result. Might be time for my 8800GTS to get stressed out for the first time since the Crysis Demo.

By: Chemix

Chemix — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:18:40 +0000

I’ve seen one of these 200 series cards in Best Buy from BFG for $350, sweet looking deal, too bad I couldn’t bring myself to spend the cash, though it’s partly because I don’t know if it would cooperate with my power supply.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:50:40 +0000

Why is it I can never get tags correct?! Rather annoying. Should I insert tags as I type, or after the main body of text is written?

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:45:43 +0000

Yeah, I heard talks by a couple of people doing stellar cluster research using GPUs for gravity calculations. I thought that you needed double precision for that sort of thing (which graphics cards are traditionally bad at) but apparently you can get away with single precision for a lot of things.