AGEI Physics Accelerator

Is it worth adding "BFG Technologies AGEIA PhysX Physics Accelerator Card, 128MB PCI"......... in my system... with MSI HD4850 512MB.........

I found this video at youtube:

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=ohNwRV4fAqA

It shows how PhysX work with HD4850.... so i'm confused... if it is capable of handling... then why buy some extra PPU....

Is it possible to enable PhysX with HD4850...?

The comments in the video say they are running the software mode, not hardware mode.

nV hasn't unlocked the abilities for the HD series yet. It could easily do it (some people think more effectively than the GF and GTX series due to branching and batch size advantages), but it would require nV to allow it, and right now they don't and AMD don't want to support it either, so to do it either you add an Ageia card in Vista & XP or an nV card in XP only.

If you find it I'd like to see it.

Cuda is an application layer for GF hardware so I doubt that's it.

There was alot of talk initially about running PhysX on the HD series, but the guy who said he got it to work (a member of NGoHQ) suddenly STFU and hide away from all questions after being contacted by nV.

If something new has come up please share, I'm not saying it's not possible, I'm saying it's not currently enabled through standard methods.

From a game stand point blizzard is supporting havok with there new games coming out such as diablo 3 and not sure but correct me if I am wrong SC2

Stuart, that's what I'm refering to when I say "the guy who said he got it to work (a member of NGoHQ) suddenly STFU and hide away from all questions after being contacted by nV."

There's been NOTHING since June, and any inquiries on the forum end in the thread being locked & deleted, despite saying they would have something in a few weeks (well it's 6 months later now, nadda);
http://www.ngohq.com/news/14219-ph [...] #post69488

and people there bitching about it and saying to ask here about it, since alot of their traffic is coming from the THG article.
At this time it just looks suspect, GPU-PhysX will be dead and gone replaced by something OpenCL based or Havok based before Eran posts anything worthwhile. Whether he was BSing or nV locked him down doesn't really matter the end result is the same, he got people's hopes up and delivered nothing (not even a word of an update on the status).

So like I said, if anyone comes up with something CONCRETE and IN ACTION please share it.

I was under the impression the entire reason NV bought the Aegia Physx intellect was to incorportate them into their cards...IE, mid/high end gaming and desktop Quadro rendering. Also, like others mentioned, the ability to utilize a lower end card as a stand alone physx card to support another gaming card was also to be part of the equation.

So its not worth buying ASUS/BFG AGEI PhysX accelerator card.



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