Unreal Tournament 3 Demo and Ageia Physics?

Guys,
I was checking out the unreal tournament 3 demo and it's really great game. Now next thing comes is AGEIA PHYSX. I don't have the card so I don't know how it will look. I was just checking out Unreal engine 3 which uses Ageia physics. And if you check out this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrea [...] Engine_3_2 lot of games will be in future base on that engine. So will all these games support Ageia physics? There cards prices have dropped to 112$ at www.compusa.com. Gears of war supports Ageia physics. What are the odds for Ageia? Is it the right time to Buy physics card or there is no future for ageia

I really don't see the point in those cards.

I think it is a worthwhile buy. Most people think they are worthless because most games up until now haven't utilized it. But as you said, many games are starting to support that physics engine, and in those cases, it will bring some really cool effects that you would never see with only an 8800. It's not about processing power, it's all about the engine.

I do think that AMD and nV will integrate this functionality before too long.

woops double post

Ignore the first 2 posts. Im pretty sure in this game Physx si gonig to take off, Ageia dont get many titles out using their tech so im sure this is going to be a big one. Especailly as the new games all use physx it should significantly improve FPS and free up the CPU.

I run hardware physics fine on my 3700, I don't need to by a separate card to do what my CPU can do fine.

like i said, epic themselves have said that adding a ageia card makes no difference to any in game effects. It simple offloads the process from the cpu onto the physx card. So no you wont see more things bouncing or the bio dripping.

I would put the extra $112 on a more powerfull video card or cpu.

(that's my $0.02 anyway)

Its only a demo I doubt it has anything that takes advantage of it mate.

I couldn't get the UT3 demo to work either.

So worst case it doesn't do any good in physics. it just takes the load of the Gpu and CPU. Isn't it better? Have you guys seen the Ageia island in GRAW 2. I'm impressed by that for sure. What do you guys think.

I'm not sure if Gear Of War supports Ageia. Does anybody now.

i think first thing Ageia needs to do is die shrink from 130 nm to 90 nm or 65 nm to lower the cost. I don't see that happening though

Plus now that we have multi-core CPUs, they could always write an engine to run on just one of those with the others free for generic use.

Yep, on the 360 its using ageia physx too.

Thats because they dont og making physx that GPU's cant handle!! If they based games on Ageias card being there, they could add a lot more!

Thats still nowhere near as good as a GPU and miles away from a PPU.

I was hoping that this would kick off tbh, looks like it wont though.

Any performance difference comparison between using it and not using one UT3? It's all well and good to say "well, it won't make the game any prettier," but if it meant a few more frames per second thanks to the cpu doing less, that may be worth it for some...like 8800GTX owners, whose graphics card is bottlenecked by most cpu's (maybe all cpu's...we won't know until a new one comes out!).

well okay i got this card in deal for 99$ and it did help in physics in ut3. what it really helped was in CPU usage. after this card my C2D E6600 doesn't touch 100% cpu usage in UT3.few games support it. i'll keep it for 2 years then till my next PC

hatman, you got a link to evidence supporting your view that the physx card is more powerful than a high end gpu, cause when we here were discussing this when it was released, judging from what info the shady company that ageia released it was generally agreed that the physx card didn't really come close to what was around then and if that is the case who knows about todays cards.

any links?