AGEIA PhysX Card

The $130 would be better spent building a fire to make smores.

I already have

Intel E6600
Intel DP35DM MB
3Gb dual Channel Memory
Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB
Seagate 320GB
SB X-Fi Xtremegamer

So i was thinking if it's any use in games like GRAW or Graw 2

I believe Medal of Honor: Airborne takes advantage of it. Not 100 percent sure though.

Airborne does take advantage of the physics card. Why do you think it installs the drivers.

I have one of those cards. Not all games take advantage of it, but those that do will benefit greatly..... easing things up on your processor and your video card.

F.E.A.R takes advantage of it. A lot more stuff ( particles ) fly around and linger in the air when my machine had the card vs it not being in there. It gets so "dusty" it's almost too hard to see. Really cool. The game also plays smoother.

I'd buy one if I were you. Everthing might not take advantage of it but it's good to have................ and the manufacturer already has an updated version waiting in the wings with a pci-e interface. that should tell you something.

You either have a crappy setup, or you're too stupid to tell the difference !

Or you're just an idiot. And in fact, if he had a crappy setup, he would notice the difference more.

And the physX system is just an API that happens to be able to interface with a hardware device. Just because a game has the Ageia PhysX engine doesn't mean it automatically uses the card.

Its not THAT expensive...

Leadbottom, hope these types of posts aren't what we can expect from you in the future. Mind supplying just one link that says that F.E.A.R. supports Ageia. Not to mention, if F.E.A.R. actually did support Ageia, you expect me to believe that link to supported titles wouldn't list one of the best FPS's???? Being uninformed is one thing, spreading unsupported FUD is completely another. We have enough posters here that do that, try and differentiate yourself some other way.

Just to let you know that particle system:

The debris and dust works for the rest of us who don't have an PPU, and yes it gets to the point where we have to let the dust settle before we can see. Do not justify your purchase by fooling yourself that the PPU helped in F.E.A.R.. Next you'll tell us that BOB (that paper clip in Office) has better, more realistic animations because of your PPU.

I Google it, and couldn't find one instance where it said that F.E.A.R. support Ageia. When I did a search on the whatisfear website (search word ageia) it came back in Sierra's support site with the name Switchball, a title that happens to be on that list.

[quotemsg=1743269,16,75978]Leadbottom, hope these types of posts aren't what we can expect from you in the future. Mind supplying just one link that says that F.E.A.R. supports Ageia. Not to mention, if F.E.A.R. actually did support Ageia, you expect me to believe that link to supported titles wouldn't list one of the best FPS's???? Being uninformed is one thing, spreading unsupported FUD is completely another. We have enough posters here that do that, try and differentiate yourself some other way.

Just to let you know that particle system:

The debris and dust works for the rest of us who don't have an PPU, and yes it gets to the point where we have to let the dust settle before we can see. Do not justify your purchase by fooling yourself that the PPU helped in F.E.A.R.. Next you'll tell us that BOB (that paper clip in Office) has better, more realistic animations because of your PPU.

I can tell the difference in my machine with the hardware I'm running how the games react or don't react with the card installed or not installed. I played FEAR about 8 times, beginning to end before I bought the card. I see more particles flying around with it installed, and they take longer to settle. If you don't or can't see the difference , I can't help it. It also plays smoother. It's my opinion that the card alleviates some of the stress off of the processor and off of the graphics card. Sorry you disagree with me. I'm not going to go looking around the web for anything. I don't have to. I don't have to have specific scientific fact from some world renowned electronics geek to know what I see and feel when I use my machine.

i agree spending it on the coke, not so much the hookers as the "vag" is easily available to anyone for free.

Im alwyas keeping the lookout for quite a cheap one, but depending on how much difference it makes in UT3 Ill get it no matter what.

I think it will make quite a bit of difference personally.

don't get it, unless you have the urge to play that free game they made which only runs with it (cell factor or something)

Thats quite interesting, whats your hardware? and also did you recently update your drivers by chance? Also when you stuck the card in, were you actually looking at things now? Rather than before just playing them through and ignoring things like a majority of people (myself included) do when we play games?
What was the FPS range with and without the card?

SPECS: 939 4800 ocl'ed. / 8800gts 640 with the 162 something or other drivers. / xp pro 64bit / 4gig ocz plat / physics card.............

The first and second time I played, I just played. The more I played I actually got to the point at watching the different things ( effects ) as you were playing.

Don't know what the frame rates were off hand, but they were "high" in the auto thing, all over 40 fps and
don't know what the max was, is all I can remember, .....*** before the physics card was installed ***....

and I don't really think the frame rates changed when I put the physics card in, it just felt like it got "lubed". Played better and smoother. The dust takes longer to settle, there's more of it, and I get bigger chunks when you shoot up cardboard boxes......... bigger triangles, more "triangles"......( the particles that fly off them when shot ) if you know what I mean. Also the concrete walls and other walls that spew the "dust" when shot. That's all I can tell you.

I played GRAW, that game is underrated.
I wonder how a PhysX will make it any better. The physics on my C2D seems fast enough anyway.
I think it will be a long time until physics gets fixed and full intergrated in DirectX.

I rarly post, but you are so dumb i had to say this. FEAR does not support the phyics card, it doesnt even use the software from AGIEA. It is IMPOSSIBLE for fear to have "more dust" With it installed. IMPOSSIBLE. Unless the game supports AGIEA physx, the actual card, you will see NO improvment. Stop fooling your self.

No point in getting the Ageia card at this point in time. Developers will probably start utilizing the multiple cores of the newest processors to run physics calculations, so (for the long term) you're probably better off switching to a quad-core processor than buying the phys-x card.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doens't Ageia run into a bit of bandwidth issues? That could be an indicator that the tech is not all that sound. And it's a poor comparison with DX10, particularly stating that there is no reason in buying the newer hardware from nV/ATI. They are faster than the older hardware (apples to apples) in DX9 as well...

Rather interesting video......... lol. The high quality video looked good on my x850xt. Bet it looks better with shader model 3.0. Not to mention the DX10 option. Have to check it out later.

Stop picking on leadbottom. I have the physics card, and I can see "improvements" in different areas. ....... Maybe it's doing what he says...... ? I'm not sitting in front of his machine, he is.

Do you guy's think it will drop in price at Christmas time. UT3 should be out by then. BFG card is going for 116$ after mail in rebate.

If only a lot of games used the Source Engine...

No need for a physics card