AGEIA (Creator of PhysX) has fully been absorbed

[crenn]

Yep, that's right, AGEIA no longer has a website. Trying to go to http://www.ageia.com/ will result in an automatic link to this page:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_physx.html

I found this out via this page:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
Just take a look down in other drivers and you'll find this:
NVIDIA PhysX System Software
Note that when you click on it, it has this in it's description:

Does NOT include NVIDIA GPU PhysX Support

I can't find much information on it, but it seems that NVidia is keeping it's word..... GPU PhysX is coming.

[The boy 4rm oz]

Yeah it was a matter of time until the Ageia site went down.

I can't find much information on it, but it seems that Nvidia is keeping it's word..... GPU PhysX is coming.

Actually it isn't as new as I thought. I have recently got FEAR back from a friend and have been playing with it for a bit, tweaking settings and came across something interesting. Under one of the Advanced system settings tabs there are two sliders. 1 allows you to allocate a certain percentage of your GPU to physics calculations and the other slider allows you to do the same with the RAM (may also e CPU as well). After playing with this you really have to cut down the other settings to get good frame rates, even with GPU only at 25%.

It will be interesting to see how Nvidia deal with this. I may end up getting a cheap 88** GPU (88** series and above support this feature only I think) and dedicate it completely to physics, or just get a physics card.

[crenn]

There won't be any physic specific cards. Any 8 series or higher should support CUDA. A higher end card may be better though. I'd wait until GPU PhysX is released before deciding. I think a dual card approach will yield better results.

I never knew about that, I'll have to borrow my friend's computer and check it out.

[The boy 4rm oz]

I know there won't be any physics specific cards but what I am saying is I would rather still have one good card for graphics and a lower speced card for the physics, I was thinking maybe an 8800GT or if the entire 8*** series are supported an 8500.

[J-Roc]

I know there won't be any physics specific cards but what I am saying is I would rather still have one good card for graphics and a lower speced card for the physics, I was thinking maybe an 8800GT or if the entire 8*** series are supported an 8500.

I forsee one major problem with that approach. The second card wont be enabled unless its in SLI mode which means you'll need 2 identical cards. Also, the 88 series doesnt support physics in the first place(as far as i know). Nvidia would have to do some serious driver coding to get physics computing on a card that never had the abillity to do it to begin with. Look for Nvidia Quantum Effects cappable cards.

[crenn]

J-Roc, all 8 series cards are CUDA enabled. That's how they're doing it. You can have 2 cards in your computer, but at this stage, it's too early to see requirements.

[The boy 4rm oz]

I'm probably just going to get a PhysX card, will be a lot easier to set up and probably have more performance gains. With Ageia getting taken over the prices should drop. T

[crenn]

WRONG!

I'd wait for the GPU PhysX to come out, in theory it should be a lot more powerful than the normal PhysX card.

[The boy 4rm oz]

I will wait to see a comparison but I still can't see it being better than an independent card solution. Yes it may be more powerful but will the rest of your visuals suffer from the extra usage of the GPU? I'm not doing to down the sliders on all my games just so I can see some boxes move differently.

[Trace]

Lol, "Just to see some boxes move differently"

Thats going in to my sig