Nvidia Releases PhysX 3.0

[Guest]

Nvidia just announced a version of its PhysX, which is already available for download for all registered developers.

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[acasel]

smart move by nvidia to get faster fps than ati

Still awaiting for bulldozer to arrive 😀

 

[mayankleoboy1]

now only if the game developers start using this.

 

[Guest]

They wont start using it unless it also works on AMD graphic cards.
The PC market is already a niche beside the consoles, no need to further
narrow down your market audience by going for a one-supplier graphics
card only technology.

 

[dan117]

Go OpenCL!

 

[illo]

OpenCL isnt optimized nearly as much as it could be, and having 4 different distros for it is way overkill IMO.

Kinda cool that they updated it.

 

[blibba]

Nvidia offers PhysX 3.0 for download free of charge for PCs, the Xbox 360, the PS3, Mac OS X, Linux and Android. Needless to say, the platform requires a CUDA-capable Nvidia GPU.

Wait... what?

 

[rohitbaran]

Nvidia offers PhysX 3.0 for download free of charge for PCs, the Xbox 360, the PS3, Mac OS X, Linux and Android.

Well, if they charge for it, people will resort to havok or something else.

 

[gamerk316]

Wait... what?

Nothing is stopping AMD from porting the libaries to run on OpenCL. Heck, anyone could write an OpenCL wrapper. CUDA is simply the implementation layer of the API, nothing more.

 

[AEternal1]

As nickelthing said.......there's another aspect in which this narrow minded approach of software to specific hardware hurts nvidia. nvidia doesnt get its name brand out there by nearly as much...half of getting people to buy your product is to get them familiar with your product, and to get them to like your product. with so many oem companies just throwing hardware together because its cheap, there are many customers who will never know about nvidia, because their phys x isnt running on their machine. when those once uneducated customers decide they want better graphics, they will probably stick with whatever they saw on the pre built computer...but just a better version. if they had nvidia badging telling them that their current graphics were made better by nvidia software.....wouldnt they then assume that maybe nvidias hardware might be an improvement over their current hardware set...

youre not going to win over the accidental customer of ati if that system isnt running nvidia software.

 

[Titanius]

Anyone else smirk when you read get PhysX for free for Xbox360? I mean, NVIDIA must know the Xbox360 has ATI graphics...right?

 

[cronus98]

i thought you could run PhysX on your CPU (albeit not as well) if you don't have nvidia hardware. am i mistaken?

 

[illo]

yes you can run Physx on your CPU or GPU....in fact DragonAge only uses Physx for projectiles, which they run on your CPU.

 

[internetlad]

i'll start buying PhysX capable GPUS when PhysX starts to matter in at least 1/4 games.

 

[DjEaZy]

... xbox 360 haz an radeon in it...

 

[verbalizer]

I'm game, downloading it now...
I already run phys-X now:
i5-760 @ 3.4GHz
GTS 240 (OEM) - phys-X
GTX 560 Ti

 

[razor512]

[citation][nom]Titanius[/nom]Anyone else smirk when you read get PhysX for free for Xbox360? I mean, NVIDIA must know the Xbox360 has ATI graphics...right?[/citation]

there used to be a ati hack in the works to allow you to run physx using ati hardware, nvidia may have taken over that project so that ati users can get physx also.

 

[illo]

[citation][nom]razor512[/nom]there used to be a ati hack in the works to allow you to run physx using ati hardware, nvidia may have taken over that project so that ati users can get physx also.[/citation]

anyone else smirk at these comments when its been said in other comments that PhysX can run on any CPU....

 

[tmax]

So tablet and phones will now need CUDA? I like Physx but its not enough for me to use Nvidia for all of my applications.

 

[Chris_TC]

What's this nonsense with it requiring an Nvidia GPU? PhysX is used in over 300 games, running on the CPU. Take a look at games like Mortal Kombat 2011 or Castlevania, they've got the PhysX logo.

GPU acceleration only works with Nvidia GPUs. But the physics engine is of course compatible with any multi-core CPU.

And to all the OpenCL whiners: where are the OpenCL accelerated physics? There's not a single game. GPU PhysX only works on Nvidia. That's not ideal. But OpenCL physics don't exist at all. At least not in games you can buy.