NVIDIA To Enable PhysX For Full Line of GPUs

MojoKid brings news from HotHardware that NVIDIA will be enabling PhysX for some of its newest graphics cards in an upcoming driver release. Support for the full GeForce 8/9 line will be added gradually. NVIDIA acquired PhysX creator AGEIA earlier this year.

Re:PhysX?

[arbiter1]

nvidia bought out he company so they own it and can put it on their cards, games that decide to add support for it it will benefit nvidia.

Re:Hentai

[maz2331]

That's just disturbing.

I called it

[glyph42]

I called this when the PhysX cards first came out. I told my excited coworkers, "these cards are going to be irrelevant pretty soon, because it will all move to the GPU". They looked at me funny.

Re:I didn't RTFA

[negRo_slim]

im not sure how extensive it is, or what its limitations are,

Me niether, but the PhysX denos certainly had a neat feel to them... I think I ended up with them from a UT3 install, can't find a link to the originals, but I found this [kpnet.fi] which looks exactly the same.

But going from a little physics demo to full blown kick ass 3d game with any meaningful results is a whole 'nother matter.

Re:Does anyone else remember...

[urbanriot]

Really? I don't know any gamers that are excited about this. Name more than one game (without googling) that supports Physx?

Re:Does anyone else remember...

[neokushan]

Unreal 3 is an engine that's used on LOTS of games - technically ALL of them have PhysX support, so no, not "just" Unreal 3, because there is no game called Unreal 3.

Re:Works on just the one card?

[Anonymous Coward]

Previously you had to buy a $200+ physics card from Ageia. I'm not sure how well a graphics card can do physics, but it'd be neat if I could take an older graphics card and repurpose it to do physics instead of throwing it away.

Re:I didn't RTFA

[Carbon016]

There hasn't been for a while, that's why buying a quad-core CPU is largely useless for gamers and one of the best uses of a dual-core CPU is running a single-threaded application alongside Windows. Graphics cards are massively parallel multi-core systems and have much better real-world and theoretical performance in physics simulations. Physics and AI are all the GPU has left to conquer. I still see the CPU doing a lot of AI work, though, because those sort of algorithms (hey no recursion neat) are naturally far from the linear access sort of thing CUDA and related technologies are best at.

Do they do their accounting like Apple does?

[bwalling]

If they do, it'll cost $15 for the driver to enable this.

Re:I didn't RTFA

[somersault]

Doom is a futuristic shooter. We had it back in this thing called the 90s ;) And an RTS is an RTS. Driving games on the PC have never been quite as prolific as on consoles either.. something I used to lament, but things are improving these days.