[citation][nom]cknobman[/nom]Screw Nvidia and their crap PhysX. Adds jack squat to overall experience while killing your framerates.Nvidia only wanted to force customers and devs into their ecosystem with this when they bought out Ageia anyways so it was doomed from that point on.[/citation]
it ads eye candy, and a very large ammount if done right.
see when physics gets put into something, they stop baking in pre determined code, so lets say you shoot something and a bit of rubble happens, with physics, its there, without it its missing completely, without physics in the game at all, they put a baked script to it.
so physics improves over all graphics, but if physics are in a game, people who cant use it are screwed hard.
[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]there will always be the need for a game to be ported. It's like saying Windows games don't need to be ported in order to be playable on Linux on the exact same hardware.[/citation]
if they use opengl i dont think os is an issue. [citation][nom]upgrade_1977[/nom]I don't get it, why is everyone all mad at nvidia??? PhysX was offered to AMD by ageia and nvidia, they didn't want it... Case closed. If people don't like physX then turn it off and don't use it. I read an article on this years ago when nvidia purchased ageia. Amd was offered it, they didn't want it. Nvidia licenced it to amd for free anyways, and amd let Nvidia do all the legwork with the drivers, so Nvidia got sick of it, and said why should we have to do all the work? So they asked AMD to pay for it. AMD didn't care about physics, so they said no. Why is everyone always hating on nvidia? People are complaining because nvidia has free features?!?!? I'm sure if anyone wants to develop physX drivers for free for AMD everytime they update there drivers, then i'm sure nvidia would let them licence it for free. Ask yourselve's this. Why should AMD get a free slice of the pie, when they didn't want it at first anyways, and nvidia paid completely for ageia, and they did it for us gamers, so why doesn't amd care about gamers enough to cough up a lil coin?I realize everyone says they need opensource blah blah blah, but honestly, if apex or havok or whateveris so much better then physX, then physx wouldn't even be around right now. I love having physX built into my cards. It's just like 3D, amd didn't want to support that either. Amd doesn't care what a gamer wants, they only care about money. It's funny how nvidia comes out with new features, then AMD is always like "thats stupid we don't need that", then later on amd adds similiar features as an after thought. Then everyone gets mad at nvidia?? Nvidia corporate train of though is "what do the gamers want", AMD's is like "how can we make money"..
http/www.bit-tech.net/custompc/n [...] --ati.html[/citation]
yea pay your rival for every card and every graphics thing you do... i cant see how that wouldn't be just the most desirable thing to do.
especially during a time where nvidia locked code in games to be nvidia only (not sure if they still do this allot) so any amd card has to have a more gpu intensive work around artificially making them play worse.
instead of we have physx and they dont, they would show off how much "better" physx is on their cards apposed to amd.
amd not support 3d... you mean amd didn't require a 3d box and glasses for their 3d... nvidia is in the business of milking their consumers, by pushing out gpus that are slightly better for insanely higher prices. not saying amd doesn't also do that given the chance, but i still feel amd is being less douchey about it.
try looking it up, twimtbp games, especially older ones lock graphic effects from compediter cards, even if they can be played on them. buisness practices like that sicken me and nvidia tends to do them FAR more than amd.