NVidia Physx to go completely proprietary?

"Well for all those who have have used Nvidia cards for PhysX and ATI cards to render graphics in Windows 7...All that is about to change.

Since the release of 186 graphics drivers Nvidia has decided to disable PhysX anytime a Non-Nvidia GPU is even present in the same PC. Nvidia again has shot themselves in the foot here and showed they are not customer oriented. Since they are pushing Physx this will not win over any ATI fanboys with this latest decision.

Here is a copy of the email I received from Nvidia support confirming what they have done.


Quote:
Hello JC,

Ill explain why this function was disabled.

Physx is an open software standard any company can freely develop hardware or software that supports it. Nvidia supports GPU accelerated Physx on NVIDIA GPUs while using NVIDIA GPUs for graphics. NVIDIA performs extensive Engineering, Development, and QA work that makes Physx a great experience for customers. For a variety of reasons - some development expense some quality assurance and some business reasons NVIDIA will not support GPU accelerated Physx with NVIDIA GPUs while GPU rendering is happening on non- NVIDIA GPUs. I'm sorry for any inconvenience caused but I hope you can understand.

Best Regards,
Troy
NVIDIA Customer Care

So this really confirms that PhysX will be doomed as an adopted API regardless how hard Nvidia pushes it as a result of action like this. "
http://www.ngohq.com/graphic-cards [...] esent.html

Yay!, higher Vantage scores . Seriously though, the only people who can really influence how this turns out is the game devs as they are the ones who ultimately decide what to include or leave out of whatever game they intend to make, yes or no?

Only time (and the small print in certain contracts) will tell.

Well, no ones going to go dump their ATI primary card, just to go get physx.
Another thing is, all those that do have ATI primary, and nVidia doing physx, I see them selling their old cards, which will mainly be bought by? People who prefer nVidia. So, hows that supposed to improve sales? Or further the use of physx when the devs see 40% of the market has been cut out?

I was about to buy a gtx 280 for physx........... now I wont.

PhysX already dead-end feature, it seems Nvidia wants to kill it even sooner, maybe its for the better ;-)

It works for Sony.

Ageia would be very angry

you do know there's a patch to bypass this

I would imagine it is bound to happen at some point if not already. How about a linky?

i can see nvidia try and block this, they cant be to happy about it