8800 GT SLI on 177.39 forceware with ageia physx installed

Nvidia physx driver shouldn't matter, but I included that factor in the title anyways

I just installed and did a few benchmarks of my current rig in crysis gpu benchmark, while I know it is far from the be-all and the end-all of benches, I think I saw some pretty big increases in fps in this forceware update, let me know if these numbers seem consistant with previous numbers or if this does indeed seem a lot higher


config: e8400 @3.6ghz, corsair 4gb ddr2-800, evga 8800GT SLI @ 650/1620/950, vista64

directx10, high spec, no AA, default nvidia global control panel settings (default AF), 1680*1050

This is from the 177.39 forceware today, taken from the gpu benchmark log:

TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 51.38s, Average FPS: 38.92
Min FPS: 20.29 at frame 1937, Max FPS: 52.70 at frame 945
Average Tri/Sec: -26421664, Tri/Frame: -678825
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.35
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 45.49s, Average FPS: 43.96
Min FPS: 20.29 at frame 1937, Max FPS: 53.80 at frame 908
Average Tri/Sec: -29791576, Tri/Frame: -677624
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.35

I did just 2 timedemos, I noticed a bit of microstutter in the first timedemo which is likely why the fps is a little lower

This isn't a epeen glory thread, I was just wondering if this was an increase or if it seemed like perfectly consistant with the previous forceware

1680*1050, 0xAA, 16xAF, High

TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 50.98s, Average FPS: 39.23
Min FPS: 20.38 at frame 1919, Max FPS: 53.93 at frame 897
Average Tri/Sec: -26703790, Tri/Frame: -680645
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.35
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 46.01s, Average FPS: 43.46
Min FPS: 20.38 at frame 1919, Max FPS: 56.47 at frame 79
Average Tri/Sec: -29430302, Tri/Frame: -677103
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -1.35


1680*1050, 0xAA, 16xAF, very high

TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 73.62s, Average FPS: 27.17
Min FPS: 16.45 at frame 1928, Max FPS: 35.91 at frame 898
Average Tri/Sec: -9433012, Tri/Frame: -347219
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -2.64
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 73.44s, Average FPS: 27.23
Min FPS: 15.96 at frame 803, Max FPS: 35.91 at frame 898
Average Tri/Sec: -9039368, Tri/Frame: -331910
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -2.76

where did you get that driver? is that a new driver? i got the 175.16 for 32bit vista. gonna check up on new drivers now...

quote from the above link:

""Nvidia promised that it will deliver PhysX API compatible with all GeForce 8 and 9 cards in July. For now, PhysX only works on the GeForce models GTX 260, 280, 9800GT, 9800GTX, 9800GTX+ and 9800GX2.""

Other than Unreal Tournament 3, there aren't any major titles that use Ageia physix. Game developers perfer their own generic physics engine that's optimized to run on cpu instead. As for your Crysis demo, Crysis, like nearly everyone else, run their physics engine off cpu.

What are you talkina bout? Mass Effect, Gears Of War, Age of empires 3, UT3 + UT3 physics mod

All awesome games

Hmm, hard to say - I could see Epic licensing it as an addon to their engine for UE4, but that is just speculating.

I own ME, GoW, UT3 - I like ME/UT3 but after playing through GoW once on hardcore I dropped it - although I hear multiplayer was what made GoW good, not SP so much - I found GoW SP frustrating at times on hardcore, but I got through it.

I didn't know though that GoW and Mass Effect had Physx support - how does it work?

There's a list. Although most of them don't make enough use of physics to begin with, that's why you don't notice it while playing through the game.
http://nzone.com/object/nzone_physxgames_home.html

i have an nf4 a8n32-sli-deluxe mb and i currently have one 8800 gts 512 (g92) with another on the way in the mail.

when it gets here i will of course be running in SLI.

my question is....what about buying the asus ageia card and putting it in my pci-e 4x slot....the card will work in even though its a pci-e 1x card.


i want to know if i forced the programs to use ageia instead of nvidia physx if it would bottleneck my system AND would i see a pretty good frame rate increase by having the ageia card dedicated to all the physx processing instead of doing the physx on my nvidia 8800 gts cards.

thanks.

GRAW2's 'Agiea Island' now works on my 8800GT's.