Great News

Got a 7600 hoping to get an 8600 hopefully soon in the next paycheck or two... If I can get one that will be kick ass.

8800 gts ! ^^

Awesome. I recently got a 8800 Gt

wow!! I hope it actually works! ... those current physX hardware cards have an almost zero gain for most applications.

I wonder how it's going to work? Like is there a part of the video card that is not being used at all.. or will part of the cards processing power go towards the physX ..

in any case I'll be interested in seeing how it works when it gets released.

good post! thank you holy-moly

Gee I wish I knew if ATI had something like this...

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D:<

holymoly wrote:Since hl2dm is such a CPU (physics-processing) intensive game, PhysX will probably help us run this game much faster, smoother, and with fewer datacache crashes.

ROLF!

holymoly wrote:http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14147

If you have a GeForce 8 card, you'll soon be able to download PhysX, a GPU-based physics processing system. Since hl2dm is such a CPU (physics-processing) intensive game, PhysX will probably help us run this game much faster, smoother, and with fewer datacache crashes. I'm stoked.

Unfortunately, this won't affect hl2dm. The Source engine uses Havok, not PhysX. A CUDA acceleration of both PhysX and Havok would be pretty cool though.

MeekMeekle wrote:I wonder how it's going to work? Like is there a part of the video card that is not being used at all.. or will part of the cards processing power go towards the physX ..

Video cards don't have any unused processing power. In order to accelerate PhysX, it'll have to divert resources away from video acceleration. The question is whether the drop in frame rate vs. amount of in-game physics would be a worthwhile trade-off.

hmm, this seems cool...