NVidia Cripples PhysX "Open" API

Posted by timothy on Wednesday September 30, 2009 @08:06AM from the semi-open dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a foot-meet-bullet type move, NVidia is going to disable PhysX engine if you are using a display adapter other than one that came from their company. This despite the fact that you may have an NVidia card on your system specifically to do this type of processing. 'For a variety of reasons some development expense, some quality assurance and some business reasons Nvidia will not support GPU accelerated PhysX with Nvidia GPUs while GPU rendering is happening on non-Nvidia GPUs.' Time to say hello to Microsoft dx physics or Intel's Havok engine."

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But... by nicc777 · 2009-09-30 08:12 · Score: 5, Funny

...will it my $TERM faster?

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1. Re:But... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-30 08:30 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I think you accidentally the verb.
Re:Havok by Kratisto · 2009-09-30 08:22 · Score: 5, Funny

That's a new record for a Microsoft product. Lesser of two evils? Okay, occasionally. But a lesser of three!? There's hope for them yet!

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Re:Havok by azior · 2009-09-30 18:11 · Score: 5, Funny

That's a new record for a Microsoft product. Lesser of two evils? Okay, occasionally. But a lesser of three!? There's hope for them yet!
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you mean like this?