AGEIA (Creator of PhysX) has fully been absorbed

[The boy 4rm oz]

"we're in for another revolution people!"

Yes we are, but I can see it not being all it's cracked up to be. I personally think that it will only really benefit high end (GTX/ULTRA) systems or systems running SLI.

[Tavarin]

My biggest question is will separate physics cards work with ATI GPUs. If nVidia makes this an nVidia only compatible product I will be pissed.

[The boy 4rm oz]

The other question is WILL it be a seperate card dedicated to physics (like a standard PhysX card) or will you give up part of your current card/s to gain physics effects while most likely losing frame rates. CUDA is Nvidia technology so I would say it will probably stay as an Nvidia feature to start with. They will most likely sell off licenses to AMD further down the line.

We just have to wait and see. I think it is a good idea based on the principle. The way Nvidia implement it way be its downfall however. If the driver is actually released for th 88** series cards I will definitely try it.

[nevermind1534]

I think they're going to cease production of seperate cards. The drivers for the gf8 and up will support it with no additional hardware.

[crenn]

From what I've heard, ATi haven't ruled out putting PhysX on their GPUs but currently they're working with Havok (who is owned by Intel). PhysX is 'open' still, so ATi could put it on their GPUs.
As far as I know, the GTX280 has a PhysX co-processor on the card....

[The boy 4rm oz]

As far as I know, the GTX280 has a PhysX co-processor on the card....

Which should performs much better than dedicating some of the GPU clock to physics calculations.

[crenn]

Early PhysX drivers are out in the wild:

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=291319

[The boy 4rm oz]

I will have to try it.

EDIT
*QUOTE*
The GeForce 177.39 driver for the 64bit version of Windows Vista is dated June 16, and brings PhysX support for the GeForce 9800 GTX, GeForce GTX 260 and 280 graphics cards and the nForce 750a SLI and 780a SLI IGPs.
*QUOTE*

Looks like I miss out, no 8800GTX support.

[crenn]

That hasn't stopped others!

If you have the 177.35 drivers and the new PhysX drivers, you should be able to run it. All I'll say is this looks very promising!

[The boy 4rm oz]

I may try it later. These are the drivers I am running according to drive manager (yes I haven't updated in a while) 7.15.11.6369. I will update and try later this weekend.