Nvidia Support of AGEIA PhysX Processors is Dead

R.I.P Ageia physics processing units (PPUs)....

Bad move! Poor form Nvidia! Won't buy from your shoddy outfit again...

Yea, who didn't see THAT coming. That thing was a hunk of crap. Did you ever see the demo's showing off what it was capable of? Crap. Good riddance.

...in a couple of months. pff

It's about time... Nvidia is going into meltdown mode thanks to Fermi lava.

nvidia wasn't interested in those chips when it acquired ageia a couple of years ago in the first place. it was PhsyX it was after. now that GeForce GPUs PhysX capabilities, it was only a matter of time...

if you still have PhysX processors, maybe it's time to upgrade.

It wasn't the best addition, but it did add some extra effects, I assume Nvidia has gotten what they wanted from the acquistion, right? Probably not worth their time to continue to support Aegia's ppu's, anymore?

Well they should start making it so its more capable of running on the CPU instead.... otherwise whats the use? if we have a Intel GPU or ATI gpu we won't be able to use your techneogy

Nvidia has a track record and this is the same crap they did when they bought 3dfx way back in the day i had a voodoo 5500 and they didnt put out drivers for it for windows xp i was soo pissed off that i really have never bought anything they make all i buy is ATI.. not saying i have not owned Nvidia but never purchased one=)

Which is why you should get an NVIDIA card.

I mean that's kind of the point, they are doing this so you'll buy one.

What a waist of money buying Physx.

nvidia new strategy ~ LOL

Oh ya physx...the chip that gave games no performance gain at all. Hmm I remember that. Some gimmick to make someone a quick buck. Now that the geforce cards have physx, well...what games even use it? All the games I play use Havoc which i believe is software, made by Valve.....hmmmmm...... physx? well idk before I had the physx capability I loaded up the physx demos from their web site and they ran fine on my pc (?????) why would I need to buy the card lol.

oh i see the list of games on wikipedia... gundam? oh that is on ps3? who cares? lol. I haven't played any of the games on that list (unless gundam is that plain launch game that I played at my friend's place on his ps3..wasn't that impressive of a game, actually had more fun playing gundam on sega dreamcast)

well... I wouldn't say good riddance to physx I just never had anything that used it. I think that's the biggest problem it had, very very minimal support. the list possibly is full of ps3 titles anyway which I don't even have.

I knew Ageia physx was doomed from the moment NVidia acquired them. Thank goodness I never bought a Physx card. Also, something of major importance to mention to fellow NVidia fans, the new Fermi GPU supports NVidia Physx better than the 8xx, 9xx, and 2xx series video cards. The Fermi architecture is able to switch between 3D acceleration and Physx processing on the fly during the same clock cycle so there is no more need for a dedicated PPU. In fact, if you use a previous generation card with a Fermi setup, you will actually see a drop in performance - especially if you are running an SLI setup (2-way, 3-way, or 4-way). I am using a 3-way SLI GTX480 setup and no longer use a dedicated Physx card and the physics score in 3DMark Vantage went up significantly! Just thought you all should know this information!

how to "discontinue support" and "back the technology" at the same time??
isn't AGEIA = PhysX???
which one is dead now??? please enlighten me

I thought about returning to NVidia to SLI and have a dedicated physx card but when I read that many games don't actually support it then I just dropped the thought ahah.

RIP Cellfactor Revoltion.

Blast...They should at least have a card trade-in discount or something.

Nvidia upper management incompetance at it's worst. How does a company screw up a potential huge revenue stream like hardware based physics? Simple try to integrate with the graphics card. Had Nvidia took the lead by upgrading hardware based physics and put more cache for custom based physics hardware, Physx could have destroyed Havok but now this thing goes the way of the dinosaur....

A sad day for the gaming world..

OH 3DFX how I miss the, still rocking a 5500 agp in a old rig.

actualy a lot and a lot of newer games run some form of phys-x and the performance boos is there. but mostly i hope for some real fys-x games not this half ass crap they are running. fysx is realy much cooler then dx11. ceep in mind im not at all a nvidia lover i like radeon the same.

I wonder... what about the dedicated type of PhysX on cards like the 9800GTX+/GTS 250 and the GTX 260+?

If it does anything at all, come up with a final driver just for the standalone cards and let that be it. Just my 2 cents.

One thing I don't get is: if Nvidia has the Fermi card re-engineered to be closer to multipurpose vector computing, that should mean that it can do 3D and physics equally well depending on the algorithm. Then, what is the PhyX tech bringing to the table ? The new Fermi + OpenCL standard or CUDA should make PhyX obsolete.

If i'm not correct didn't AMD say PhysX would die back in December of 2008; two years after AMD acquired ATI. In my opinion there was nothing wrong with PhysX processor other than the lack of drivers. As far as games, Nvidia should have worked with the people of Havoc to where the Havoc engine supported the PhysX processor for physics acceleration. Kind of like how photoshop is faster with cuda support.

Another $$$ wasting add on card down bites the dust. In your next comp. just waste the money on a Killer NIC, or actually make some use of it with a new SSD.

Win it just means they can concentrate more resources on making CUDA/PhysX better. The only people that get burnt really are ATI so who cares let em cry about it!