NVIDIA PhysX Quick Test

Guru3D News · **NVIDIA PhysX Quick Test -** 06-20-2008, 05:29 | posts: 2,447 | User is Offline

As you guys likely know NVIDIA issued a new PhysX supporting driver to the press which driver actually already got leaked.
This driver will enable and allow a significant set of Physics functions to...

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Sieras · 06-20-2008, 05:32 | posts: 3,760 | Location: Lithuania, Kaunas | User is Offline

Any news or ETA's about when it'll be officially released or support more GPU's?

Year · 06-20-2008, 05:43 | posts: 5,547 | User is Offline

boom shakalaka boom! excellent news, can't wait!

WhiteLightning · 06-20-2008, 05:53 | posts: 6,549 | Location: Netherlands | User is Online

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Originally Posted by Year

boom shakalaka boom! excellent news, can't wait!

NBA JAM anyone ? lol
anyways, good to see its finally getting here. might make me tempt to play them games again

Copey · 06-20-2008, 05:53 | posts: 9,021 | Location: U.K | User is Offline

nice to see how it effects something like cellfactor or warmonger.

Thiefyo · 06-20-2008, 06:14 | posts: 37 | Location: Bucharest | User is Offline

does any one have any idee where we can get badaboom media converter

cuz i`m not finding it

Hilbert Hagedoorn · 06-20-2008, 06:25 | posts: 11,706 | Location: Guru3D Trenches | User is Offline

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Originally Posted by Thiefyo

does any one have any idee where we can get badaboom media converter

cuz i`m not finding it

Badaboom is not yet finished and thus in development. We're keeping a close eye on it. Can't distribute the version we have though, sorry.

BTW the dev website:

http://www.elementaltechnologies.com

Thiefyo · 06-20-2008, 06:30 | posts: 37 | Location: Bucharest | User is Offline

yea i know the site fresh news on the site tho ETI releases beta version of badaboom Media Converter

NoviceRei · 06-20-2008, 06:33 | posts: 590 | User is Offline

i think i'll pass on this one. i'm afraid my FPS would drop significantly using this with my 8800GT.

Chronic · 06-20-2008, 06:36 | posts: 69 | Location: Uk | User is Offline

What Nvidia cards will this work with ???

kapu · 06-20-2008, 06:38 | posts: 1,750 | Location: Poland | User is Online

Up from G80.

randomizer · 06-20-2008, 07:00 | posts: 356 | Location: Australia,melbourne | User is Offline

sli people!!! all that extra fps will decrease to reasonable playabliity if sli, like the gx2..

Thiefyo · 06-20-2008, 07:00 | posts: 37 | Location: Bucharest | User is Offline

i can confirm with modded inf 177.39 i got BIGG improvement on cpu test2 on 3dmark vantage form 1 ops to 100 i got somth like 20-30 fps super

using an Asus 8800GTS 512 g92..

proFits · 06-20-2008, 07:11 | posts: 4,076 | Location: Quebec | User is Offline

This just shows how important drivers/software coding is

PhysX are very welcome

Frag-master

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Gpu vs my physix card ????

biggerx · 06-20-2008, 08:38 | posts: 3,297 | Location: Los Angeles | User is Offline

The PhysX enabled drivers will eventually support the 8800's right?

MrBigs · 06-20-2008, 10:07 | posts: 4 | Location: LA | User is Offline

If I keep my 8800GTS and up-grade to a 260 can I use the 8800 just for PhysX?

Denial

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The PhysX enabled drivers will eventually support the 8800's right?

Yes.

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Originally Posted by MrBigs

If I keep my 8800GTS and up-grade to a 260 can I use the 8800 just for PhysX?

At the moment, no. It may be possible in the future, but nvidia has not mentioned it in any of today's releases.

Hilbert Hagedoorn · 06-20-2008, 10:11 | posts: 11,706 | Location: Guru3D Trenches | User is Offline

Some answers to some questions:

PhysX will be enabled for any GeForce graphics card that will support CUDA, yes thus series 8 and newer.
Once finalized you could use a second GeForce card as dedicated PhysX unit yes, but it's work in progress and there is no available ETA on when that is going to happen. But it will be possible yes (according to NVIDIA's PhysX team).

biggerx · 06-20-2008, 10:25 | posts: 3,297 | Location: Los Angeles | User is Offline

Cool! Yea! Physx support. Can't wait.

alma · 06-20-2008, 11:25 | posts: 503 | Location: Italy | User is Offline

I love google

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRA...-8-06-12.shtml

OB Kenobi · 06-20-2008, 12:49 | posts: 65 | User is Offline

So Vantage says you do better in the CPU test with this driver. That makes sense. But what Vantage fails to tell you is that PhysX will slow down your GPU while your CPU is made idle and does next to nothing. Nvidia needs to have PhsyX scale to any available hardware; multicore CPUs, multiple GPUs, or just one CPU and one GPU. Sort of like load balancing.

AMD needs to support this too, because right now they're backing Havok.

INGINE · *Last edited by INGINE; 06-20-2008 at 13:55.*

I have a Dell XPS M1730 with x9000 and 8800M GTX SLI and Ageia physx and i use 3dmax with the physx, so i can test it in real time, not some 3dmark optimized benchmark or some game...and so i will test it on crysis on cpu normal physx, on sli and non sli physx, loads of stuff i can check out, thats for the news peeps.

actually, sometimes i think what if the 8800 had a physx engine built into it and not activated and it might be less gpu performance when using physx, same as the 6 series when some million transistors where not used and we knew they existed after the video accel. came on the drivers, nVidia does that alot...but i love surprises.

Denial

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Originally Posted by OB Kenobi

So Vantage says you do better in the CPU test with this driver. That makes sense. But what Vantage fails to tell you is that PhysX will slow down your GPU while your CPU is made idle and does next to nothing. Nvidia needs to have PhsyX scale to any available hardware; multicore CPUs, multiple GPUs, or just one CPU and one GPU. Sort of like load balancing.

AMD needs to support this too, because right now they're backing Havok.

This type of idea will probably be apart of the DX11 spec. They're supposed to be focusing on the standardization of physics support.

Unreal_br · 06-20-2008, 18:46 | posts: 267 | Location: São Paulo/ Brazil | User is Offline

Great news... cant wait to test it on my 8600GTS once its avaliable.
Maybe i can get some extra candies outta UT3 or GRID