NVIDIA To Enable PhysX For Full Line of GPUs

MojoKid brings news from HotHardware that NVIDIA will be enabling PhysX for some of its newest graphics cards in an upcoming driver release. Support for the full GeForce 8/9 line will be added gradually. NVIDIA acquired PhysX creator AGEIA earlier this year.

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Hentai

[jaguth]

Maybe we'll finally see some realistic physics with fantasy tentacle rape hentai games. Is it just me, or do the current tentacle rape game physics seem way off?

Re:Hentai

[FeepingCreature]

It's a problem with the underlying ragdoll representation.
They're having difficulties realistically modelling penetration. Close contact like that tends to lead to numerical instabilities in physics engines. There's not much Physx can do to help, though.

Re:Hentai

[Minwee]

That's why there are teams of researchers working night and day to improve the state of tentacle modeling.

If you have what it takes to advance the state of the art there could be a big government grant and a PhD in it for you.

Re:PhysX?

[aliquis]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX

Realtime hardware accelerated physics. Used to be on a separate expensive board which few games supported but Nvidia are implementing it on CUDA so it can run on their graphic cards instead.

Re:Linux Support

[Gewalt]

iduno, I'm inclined to believe his post was more useful than yours... or mine...

Re:I called it

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Re:Works on just the one card?

[Kazymyr]

Yes, it works on one card. I have enabled it on my 8800GT earlier today. The CUDA/PhysX layer gets time-sliced access to the card. Yes, it will drop framerates by about 10%.

OTOH if you have 2 cards, you can dedicate one to CUDA and one to rendering so there won't be a hit. The cards need to NOT be in SLI (if they're in SLI, the driver sees only one GPU, and it will time-slice it like it does with a single card). This is actually the preferred configuration.