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Old 20th Jun 2008, 04:56 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default ED#95 : NVIDIA Launches PhysX!

When NVIDIA bought AGEIA in February 2008, everyone wondered what the outcome would be. Well, the wait is over.

Today, NVIDIA officially launched GPU acceleration for PhysX when they released the PhysX driver version 8.06.12 which enables PhysX acceleration for the following cards...

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"You will need to install the latest 177.39 ForceWare driver in addition to the PhysX driver. At this moment, PhysX support has only been enabled for those four GPUs. NVIDIA will progressively enable PhysX support in the other GeForce 9 and GeForce 8 graphics over the next few weeks."

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Old 20th Jun 2008, 06:22 AM   #2 (permalink)
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when they released the PhysX driver version 8.06.12

I don't see a link to that driver on NVIDIA's site. ?
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Old 20th Jun 2008, 08:13 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I don't see a link to that driver on NVIDIA's site. ?
According to that statement, it meant that it's going to be released soon.
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hmm, i wonder the PhysX is hardware based or software emulated?
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It SHOULD be hardware based. If software, then it will still be using CPU.
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like you said...should be..well not sure if they implemented the thing on the card itself =/
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like you said...should be..well not sure if they implemented the thing on the card itself =/
It has to be.
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Results look awesome.

So if you bought a PhysX card before it's pretty much redundant now?
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Results look awesome.

So if you bought a PhysX card before it's pretty much redundant now?
Depends, it will be interesting to see how it performs. I still have an Ageia card from Asus and you bet I will do a lot of tests.
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