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Nvidia to bring WHQL-certified PhysX drivers on August 5th
tgdaily.com — After demonstrating beta drivers featuring GPU-accelerated physics on 3DMark Vantage and Unreal Tournament III with GeForce GTX 200 and 9800 boards, the company is getting ready to release the official Windows driver for more users.
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- andypop481, on 07/24/2008, -1/+1huh?
- bizarrojack, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2This requires a little bit of history. Not too long ago, there was an abortive attempt by a company called PhysX to encourage game development to incorporate another optional piece of hardware to aid in creating immersive environments. This was reminiscient of when the first 3d cards were marketed in the 90's, and new games became possible, and able to run at playable speeds. Just like how a 3d card makes a leap ahead in the ability to compute the appearance of game objects, a physics card makes a leap ahead in the efficiency of calculating their behavior. The Physx cards didnt exactly leap off the shelves.
Not too much later, Physx sold to Nvidia, and it was announced that Nvidia was going to incorporate the PhysX engine into its future 3d cards through software that would run on existing hardware, so it looks like we wouldn't have to buy additional hardware to get the new toys, after all. That software is what this is.
If you do some web searches, you can find some video that demonstrates some game environments that would have been too expensive to compute, without something like this. For people who haven't played any 3d games, it might be hard to understand what you would have been missing without this, but if you have, you'll see some of the stuff is quite cool.
- bizarrojack, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2This requires a little bit of history. Not too long ago, there was an abortive attempt by a company called PhysX to encourage game development to incorporate another optional piece of hardware to aid in creating immersive environments. This was reminiscient of when the first 3d cards were marketed in the 90's, and new games became possible, and able to run at playable speeds. Just like how a 3d card makes a leap ahead in the ability to compute the appearance of game objects, a physics card makes a leap ahead in the efficiency of calculating their behavior. The Physx cards didnt exactly leap off the shelves.
- lumpking69, on 07/24/2008, -0/+3I cant wait, from what I saw with the beta drivers we are in for some good gaming.
- lumpking69, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1well its aug 6th, where are they lol
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