Nvidia disables PhysX when ATI card is present

Shroomalistic · November 28th, 2009, 10:03 PM

sweet, it works for me!!

thanks again so much man. now im full opencl, directcompute on everything and have physx

GameGuy369 · November 28th, 2009, 10:09 PM

Downloading now and will test later today.

Anyone see any performance increase from upgrading from the 191 drivers (PhysX only I mean)?

GameGuy369 · November 29th, 2009, 06:02 AM

Just to update: installed new driver, and new patch, and it worked.

Small note: no matter what I did, I could not install in normal mode. But safe mode worked like a charm on the first try.

However, I cant offer any update on performance increase, as I dont play anything that is as PhysX dependent like Batman or something. And my 5850 runs most things at 100+FPS regardless.

ghost_zero5 · November 29th, 2009, 10:54 AM

@GenL:
I have to agree with GameGuy369: It seems that patching in normal mode doesn't work, UNLESS you kill the mentioned processes in the Readme. This worked perfectly previously because of the renaming to nvapi64.tmp from nvapi64.dll
HOWEVER, I hadn't removed my previous nvapi64.tmp file. Could it be that you aren't overwriting the nvapi64.tmp file? In that case it will, of course, fail to work if there is already a file present. Though the best would probably be to remove that file at the BEGINNING of the patching process.
Or have you removed that feature?

Otherwise it seems to work fine.

Btw.: Is it just me or is the nVidia driver getting bigger with each release? I mean it has reached 133MB (Windows 7 64Bit; English language only) now. That is double the size of the ATi driver and I already think that the ATi driver is quite big.

jago_ff · November 29th, 2009, 01:16 PM

Setup:

Ati Radeon HD Powercolor 4870 512Mb
Nvidia XFX 8600 GT 512Mb DDR2 Model: PY-T84J-YAJG
Windows 7 64Bits updated
Drivers ATI Catalyst 9.11
Divers Nvidia: 195.62_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_international_w hql
PhysX_9.09.0814_SystemSoftware

Dual monitor, one in ATI Card other in the nvidia card.

Works Great with FluidMark 1.1.1 , dont work fine in Frontline "fuel of war", Works fine in NFS Shift.

THANKS for this fuc** amazing work !!!