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CaptainCox
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 Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 08:26 Post subject: NVIDIA PhysX! It's Real! And It's Ready For You! |
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| Quote: | Coming on the 12th of August is the what NVIDIA calls the PhysX Pack 1. We have been playing around with the pack and its some pretty cool stuff.
Here is what is included:
Full version of Warmonger
Full version of Unreal Tournament 3 PhysX Mod Pack (you will need Unreal Tournament 3 to play)
Latest patch for Ghost Recon Advanced Fighter 2
Sneak peek at the Nurien upcoming social networking service, based on the Unreal Engine 3 (with built-in benchmark)
Sneak peek at the upcoming game Metal Knight Zero (with built-in benchmark)
All new NVIDIA โThe Great Kuluโ tech demo
All new NVIDIA โFluidโ tech demo
You will be able to get the pack on www.nvidia.com on the 12th. |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 08:36 Post subject: |
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Awesome news! I just hope they release the 8800GTX (and other G80) drivers that support PhysX soon...
Edit: Hmm, maybe beta drivers are already out, nice! 
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 21:58 Post subject: |
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So the 8800GTX drivers are out? huh? huh?
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 22:07 Post subject: |
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Now we just have to wait for this ATi/nVidia deal to go through so that Radeon owners can use PhysX too.
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Karmeck
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 22:16 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 22:38 Post subject: |
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and what about GT cards ?
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 22:44 Post subject: |
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| Spiderman wrote: | | and what about GT cards ? |
All capable 8, 9, GTX series. Basically, anything CUDA-enabled. That includes the G92 8800GT.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 22:48 Post subject: |
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G92 cards were enabled long time ago, at least 3 weeks.
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 22:58 Post subject: |
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Are you sure? The last time I checked nVidia's PhysX stuff .. they stated, quite specifically, that the only supported cards were the 9800 and GTX series.
It even says so here;
http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_8.06.12_whql.html
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GeForce GTX 280 GPUs
GeForce GTX 260 GPUs
GeForce 9800 GTX GPUs
AGEIA PhysX Processor (All)
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 23:08 Post subject: |
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Where is that? I couldn't even find the download link for the ORIGINAL software on nVidia's site. That link above came from Google searching, lol.
Neither of those you linked to mentioned PhysX on G92 or G80 cards :-\
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 23:12 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 23:16 Post subject: |
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And that pic is taken from a G92-revision 8800? Cool, I didn't know that - I was merely going by what nVidia stated was "compatible"
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 23:19 Post subject: |
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No, it's taken on my G80 8800GTX. G92 cards were supported weeks ago (inc. 8600GT(new S), 8800GT, 9x00, etc).
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| Posted: Fri, 8th Aug 2008 23:22 Post subject: |
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Nice! Well, as I said, I didn't know since I was taking my info from nVidia's "compatible cards" list. Thanks for the update .................. now if only NGOHQ would hurry up and release their CUDA-enabled PhysX software for Radeon cards, I'd be a happy gamer.
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| Posted: Sat, 9th Aug 2008 15:00 Post subject: |
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Hmm, all this still doesn't change the fact nothing using the ageia shit is fun or really USES it except ghost recon 2
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 17:51 Post subject: |
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so does 9600 gt have this then??
if so i can remove my separate ageia card?
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 18:00 Post subject: |
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9600 is a D9M card, so if you have more than 256MB of vram, you can enable it. However, the 9600 is slow, and the Ageia card will probably give you better performance.
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 18:51 Post subject: |
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IMO, it's always better to keep a dedicated accelerator than a pseudo one. I know the new nVidia card supports PhysX via CUDA .. but it's still not going to be as effective as a dedicated card.
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 16:10 Post subject: |
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| sabin1981 wrote: | | IMO, it's always better to keep a dedicated accelerator than a pseudo one. I know the new nVidia card supports PhysX via CUDA .. but it's still not going to be as effective as a dedicated card. |
the dedicated card doesn't help over anything especially on a stock cooler, these things get fuckin hotter than a video card for doing almost nothing. |
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 16:13 Post subject: |
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The thing is, it DOES so something. It's dedicated soley to the function of running PhysX. nVidia GPUs have to split the task between accelerating PhysX and powering the game in question.
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 16:50 Post subject: |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 16:53 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 17:07 Post subject: |
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*sigh* It looks like, with nVidia backing/owning PhyX now, that we're going to see a lot more PhysX-enabled titles. I just hope NGOHQ hurry up with their Radeon Cuda port.
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 17:38 Post subject: |
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Yeah, turns out any g80 (and upwards) GeForce card has now got full PhysX support thanks to nVidia acquiring the technology and porting/adapting it to their CUDA system.
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$n@ke
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 17:45 Post subject: |
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What was the name of that multiplayer fps game which was freely downloadable for everybody, but only ageia physx card owners could play all the levels.
It had guns and psychic powers if i remember right.
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| Posted: Tue, 12th Aug 2008 17:50 Post subject: |
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CellFactor .. and damn you nVidia owners!! I always wanted to play that, but being locked to 4 bots and only 2 maps without a PhysX card really sucked.
Oh and it ran like shite too.
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