A while back there was a game released designed to demonstrate the new physics card. Does anyone remember what this game was? I am sure lots of you downloaded it since it was a free game and I wanted to test out my new card on something that actually uses it.
A while back there was a game released designed to demonstrate the new physics card. Does anyone remember what this game was? I am sure lots of you downloaded it since it was a free game and I wanted to test out my new card on something that actually uses it.adrake4183
Seriously, don't support that crap adrake. Ageia is the biggest gimmick to come out since those bigfoot "Killer" NIC cards for 200 bucks. People will buy anything.....
Sorry to say you wasted your money, but you did. I dont think there is a single game that actually supports PhysiX cards, and for a good reason. Dual cores and DX10 can both do everything PhysiXdoes, and MUCH MUCH more. Developers just are not giving much support for the PhysiX cards.
well actually I haven't bought it yet. My friend had a problem with his liquid cooling and his computer will be down until he gets parts. He was already running a quad core proc and 8800gtx's in sli so there wasn't a lot more for him to add. I am building a quad core 6700 with one 8800gts. My mother board has 3 16 pcie slots (one x8 electrical) so I was just thinking about it for the future. I'll probably buy another 8800 first but I was just curious about what the physics card could do.
Also I know that not a lot of games are supported yet which is why I was asking about the demonstration game. However the unreal engine supports physics cards so I think we will se more games using it in the future.
well actually I haven't bought it yet. My friend had a problem with his liquid cooling and his computer will be down until he gets parts. He was already running a quad core proc and 8800gtx's in sli so there wasn't a lot more for him to add. I am building a quad core 6700 with one 8800gts. My mother board has 3 16 pcie slots (one x8 electrical) so I was just thinking about it for the future. I'll probably buy another 8800 first but I was just curious about what the physics card could do.
Also I know that not a lot of games are supported yet which is why I was asking about the demonstration game. However the unreal engine supports physics cards so I think we will se more games using it in the future.
adrake4183
The Unreal Engine 3 is pretty open about what physics engine it supports. If a developer wants, he can use Havok 4.0 instead of physics, which is more likely to happen, since only some of the people that buy from Dell own a PhysX card. I don't think you'll see a whole lot of games with the PhysX logo on them anytime ever.
It really is a waste, though. It's often beaten by cheaper and older dual core processors with Ageias own benchmarks. The card is cheap, with the same process and number of transisters as a GeForce 6200, and only 128MB of RAM for the price of an 8600gt. Not only are you paying for the card, but you're also making up for the money lost by Ageia for giving out the PhysX API for free to developers. Not only are you paying for the card, but you're paying for all 5 games that use it, whether you have those games or not.
well actually I haven't bought it yet. My friend had a problem with his liquid cooling and his computer will be down until he gets parts. He was already running a quad core proc and 8800gtx's in sli so there wasn't a lot more for him to add. I am building a quad core 6700 with one 8800gts. My mother board has 3 16 pcie slots (one x8 electrical) so I was just thinking about it for the future. I'll probably buy another 8800 first but I was just curious about what the physics card could do.
Also I know that not a lot of games are supported yet which is why I was asking about the demonstration game. However the unreal engine supports physics cards so I think we will se more games using it in the future.
adrake4183
just for your knowning - you can't SLi Ageias' PhysX video card with ATI or Nvidia video cards - those "great" physics can be runned by Nvidia GeForce 7+ just as good as Ageias' PhysX + with more colors
well actually I haven't bought it yet. My friend had a problem with his liquid cooling and his computer will be down until he gets parts. He was already running a quad core proc and 8800gtx's in sli so there wasn't a lot more for him to add. I am building a quad core 6700 with one 8800gts. My mother board has 3 16 pcie slots (one x8 electrical) so I was just thinking about it for the future. I'll probably buy another 8800 first but I was just curious about what the physics card could do.
Also I know that not a lot of games are supported yet which is why I was asking about the demonstration game. However the unreal engine supports physics cards so I think we will se more games using it in the future.
adrake4183
I know this is off topic but...STOP!!! Dont build it with a E6700!!
Quad cores are going down in price ALOT next week, and E6700 is actually being discontinued, with a new E6850 being released which costs less and runs faster than the 6700.
well actually I haven't bought it yet. My friend had a problem with his liquid cooling and his computer will be down until he gets parts. He was already running a quad core proc and 8800gtx's in sli so there wasn't a lot more for him to add. I am building a quad core 6700 with one 8800gts. My mother board has 3 16 pcie slots (one x8 electrical) so I was just thinking about it for the future. I'll probably buy another 8800 first but I was just curious about what the physics card could do.
Also I know that not a lot of games are supported yet which is why I was asking about the demonstration game. However the unreal engine supports physics cards so I think we will se more games using it in the future.
The_PC_Gamer
I know this is off topic but...STOP!!! Dont build it with a E6700!!
Quad cores are going down in price ALOT next week, and E6700 is actually being discontinued, with a new E6850 being released which costs less and runs faster than the 6700.
lol thanks for the article- now not only the quad cores will go down on the price but all Intels' processors
Sorry to say you wasted your money, but you did. I dont think there is a single game that actually supports PhysiX cards, and for a good reason. Dual cores and DX10 can both do everything PhysiXdoes, and MUCH MUCH more. Developers just are not giving much support for the PhysiX cards.KorJax
Actually MANY MANY MANY games were going to support it...but as we all know it dissapeared fast. So far I think only GRAW 1 on the PC fully supported it...so much you HAD to install the drivers for the stupid thing even if you didn't have the card. Lame.
PG Gamer had a great article on the thing and the many games that were suppose to utalize it.
[QUOTE="KorJax"]Sorry to say you wasted your money, but you did. I dont think there is a single game that actually supports PhysiX cards, and for a good reason. Dual cores and DX10 can both do everything PhysiXdoes, and MUCH MUCH more. Developers just are not giving much support for the PhysiX cards.Tequila_Zaire
Actually MANY MANY MANY games were going to support it...but as we all know it dissapeared fast. So far I think only GRAW 1 on the PC fully supported it...so much you HAD to install the drivers for the stupid thing even if you didn't have the card. Lame.
PG Gamer had a great article on the thing and the many games that were suppose to utalize it.
yeah - Ageia sucks they make you install their software even if you don't own their crappy video card
GRAW, GRAW2, Cellfactor and a handful of other games support it (no highly anticipated games IIRC), just google Aegia and the list is on their site.Waste of money IMO, too few games support it so even if games support it in the future you still have little use for it now so there isn't a point in buying it.If you plan on playing GRAW, GRAW2, and cellfactor *only* then I guess it would be worth it.
It would be so much more useful if games supported physics on SLi graphics systems. If you don't need the extra graphics card to do your physics, then you can just use it for graphics in SLi. That way if you don't need the extra physics, the card isn't sitting their doing nothing and being worthless.
It would be so much more useful if games supported physics on SLi graphics systems. If you don't need the extra graphics card to do your physics, then you can just use it for graphics in SLi. That way if you don't need the extra physics, the card isn't sitting their doing nothing and being worthless.TacticalElefant
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