phxz31

When is ATI going to enable the GPU-based physics support?

Diamond and Visiontek both make regular PCI versions of the X1300 w/ 256MB, and I know its like the slowest ATI GPU available, but who knows, it may actually compete with the AGEIA PhyX card.

Anyways, I like playing with new stuff... anybody know when this stuff is expected to come out on the market?

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system specs:
Abit NF7-S rev2 (nForce2 Ultra)
AthlonXP [barton] 2344Mhz 223fsb x10.5
1GB Ultra XL PC3200 @223mhz CL2-2-2-11
ATI Radeon x1950pro 256mb
Phillips PSC706 5.1 Sound Card
Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise

IModIntel

Well i think there will be a serious bandwidth restriction until they decide to come up with a PCI-E version. The latencies will be lower plus there will be a much higher transfer rate. So I don't know why they continue to bother with PCI.

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phxz31

Well my mobo doesn't support PCIe and frankly I don't plan on building a new system anytime soon just to get PCIe, so I for one am glad they continue to bother with regular old PCI.

I realize the performance won't be as great, but some dedicated physics is probably better than no dedicated physics at all. And I can't see myself buying an AGEIA Card because they suck.

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system specs:
Abit NF7-S rev2 (nForce2 Ultra)
AthlonXP [barton] 2344Mhz 223fsb x10.5
1GB Ultra XL PC3200 @223mhz CL2-2-2-11
ATI Radeon x1950pro 256mb
Phillips PSC706 5.1 Sound Card
Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise

IModIntel

Yeah, they do suck. And what's the point of paying like 400$CAN for something that is only compatible with a few games? Plus in games that don't support Ageia PhysX, installing such a card will significantly decrease performance because it will atempt to introduce calculations that the software doesn't support (or something like that)

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IModIntel

[QUOTE=phxz31]Well my mobo doesn't support PCIe and frankly I don't plan on building a new system anytime soon just to get PCIe, so I for one am glad they continue to bother with regular old PCI.

Well I reckoned that since you've giot an athlon XP...

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phxz31

But nobody knows when ATI will enable this feature in their drivers?

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system specs:
Abit NF7-S rev2 (nForce2 Ultra)
AthlonXP [barton] 2344Mhz 223fsb x10.5
1GB Ultra XL PC3200 @223mhz CL2-2-2-11
ATI Radeon x1950pro 256mb
Phillips PSC706 5.1 Sound Card
Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise

Arklon

I don't think this will actually work until games using Havok FX (NOT just regular Havok physics, it's a different product) are released...