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xbonez
NP : Crysis
no, i don't think anyone will have a physx card. plus it isn't of much use because very few games have been developed in a way that they can take advantage of a physx card. so it means, even if u did have one, most games would run the same. i think GRAW and GRAW2 support physx cards
rohan
In the zone
my best guess is that rather than using programmatical methods for simulating physical happenings, a physx card uses hard circuitry to do that.
For ex., assume a collision. So, to simulate that, i write a C++ program which runs on my processor [Central proccesor].. which basically includes all the calculations required for an elastic collision simulation. Now, there is gonna be a lot of operations for this on the processor level. A PPU on the other hand, may have a processor instruction for collisions, so all these calculations are done on hard circuitry and since it is specialised to do it, it obviously will not require as many operations as a CPU does. The problem with this is that the PPU cannot be used for most other operations.
Now, as i said, this is my best guess, which basically stems from my ignorance.
For ex., assume a collision. So, to simulate that, i write a C++ program which runs on my processor [Central proccesor].. which basically includes all the calculations required for an elastic collision simulation. Now, there is gonna be a lot of operations for this on the processor level. A PPU on the other hand, may have a processor instruction for collisions, so all these calculations are done on hard circuitry and since it is specialised to do it, it obviously will not require as many operations as a CPU does. The problem with this is that the PPU cannot be used for most other operations.
Now, as i said, this is my best guess, which basically stems from my ignorance.
napster007
Padawan
HEY cheer up!! the new spider mobo has 4 pci-e's so it will take it,leaving a pci-e empty
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