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Modders Get Nvidia's PhysX To Run On ATI Cards

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the working-as-intended dept.

stress_life writes "Following controversial allegations that Nvidia is cheating in 3DMark Vantage and Unreal Tournament 3 benchmarks, executives from Futuremark and Epic moved forward to clean any confusion. However, the game was not over — enthusiasts from Israel ported PhysX middleware to run on ATI Radeon cards, achieving remarkable performance. Owners of ATI Radeon cards will be able to play PhysX games as well, such as Ghost Recon 2 and already mentioned Unreal Tournament 3."

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  1. Re:Not That Big a Deal by Endo13 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, the amazing part of the whole deal here is that benchmarks show almost no decrease in framerate with PhysX turned on. So yeah, it's kind of a big deal.

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  2. Re:Not That Big a Deal by timeOday · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe the amount of physics that would overwhelm the CPU (which can also kill framerate, BTW) is hardly lifting a finger for the GPU. It's certainly not impossible; GPUs do blow away CPUs for some calculations, which is why we have GPUs in the first place.