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PhysX on ATIs - Good, Bad or just silly ?

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radnor   06-27-2008 at 11:16:48 AM

If you haven't read this article here on toms you better speed up now:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/n [...] ,5764.html

A guy hacked the drivers and it is now running on ATI cards. First off, i guess making them free to anyone to download, it was only a matter of time until something like this happened.
Second of all, i think it is funny. Really. ATI can ditch Havok now. And can get free PhysX !!!! Good god.

Honestly, i think Nvidia should allow this to happen. And even support it a bit. So PhysX can become the standard in the Industry. Abit like the ODF vs OOXML discussion. I guess.

But Knowing the market, i believe those drivers will circle around the web, completely cracked and unsupported. And the Red Team will support Havok and Ageia.

I love twists and turns.

------------------------------ Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read - Frank Zappa
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zipz0p   06-27-2008 at 11:39:12 AM
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Hah, I think it's great. It just helps to show people who otherwise seem to be fooled that the PhysX (and Havok too for that matter) are simply software. There is nothing special about the hardware of one card or the other (in terms of dedicated physics calculation units or anything)...

Modern graphics cards simply have many multi-purpose processing units that are great at running parallel calculations (and you can break much of the difficult physics down into many smaller independent mathematical operations). So hooray for showcasing this.... Now I can only hope that AMD will embrace official support for this technology (not that I'm recommending they drop Havok).

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blackwidow_rsa   06-27-2008 at 11:43:28 AM
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There was an article on nvidia offering ati physx if they use cuda, i think they accepted. Sorry can't remember the link but it's on the forum somewhere here

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randomizer   06-27-2008 at 11:44:08 AM
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Sticking it to the man is never silly.

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IH8U   06-27-2008 at 11:49:06 AM
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Just gotta say it HAHAHAHA! (falls out of chair laughing) Either way I still buy nVidia, and AMD procs.

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pulasky   06-27-2008 at 11:51:35 AM
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In their (nsitia) wet wet wet wet wet dreams ATI accept crap ThrashiX (physx).The only way is HAVOK.

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stridervm   06-27-2008 at 11:52:35 AM
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I thought this was normal.....

It's because primarily the NVidia video cards never did have dedicated physics unit. When I first heard about the Physx support on NVidia cards my first thought was "changing the bottleneck from the processor to the video card?"

They just offloaded the stress from the CPU to the video card......

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