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I would like to update you about what’s going on. First, we were very pleased to see so many users and readers have applied to our Beta Test Program! To be specific: 191 users, 5 spies and 2 double agents have submitted applications during the last week. Those that will be chosen will be informed early before the beta is available – we can’t still point to “when” at this stage.
The bad news is we still don’t have access to any HD 4800 hardware yet. It is very important for this project to receive AMD’s support on both developer and PR levels. It seems that AMD still is not being cooperative, we get the feeling that they want this project to fail. Perhaps their plans are to strangle PhysX since AMD and Intel have Havok. We truly hope this is not the case since “format wars” are really bad for the consumers (For example: Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD).
Before we get to the good news, I’m going to ask you to hold on to something steady as some of you are going to feel a bit dizzy after you hear this. The truth is… Nvidia is now helping us with the project and it seems they are giving us their blessings. It’s very impressive, inspiring and motivating to see Nvidia's view on this. Why they help us? My best guess would be: They probably want to take on Intel with CUDA and to deal with the latest Havok threat from both AMD and Intel.
Some other good news, we are getting a lot of help from cool journalists like Theo Valich to address the HD 4800 access issue. I can confirm that our CUDA Radeon library is almost done and everything is going as planned on this side. There are some issues that need to be addressed, since adding Radeon support in CUDA isn’t a big deal - but it’s not enough! We also need to add CUDA support on AMD’s driver level and its being addressed as we speak.
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Last edited by Regeneration; July 8th, 2008 at 02:02 PM.
| | | | 228 Comments | | | Do I understand it correctly when I say that you're going for full cuda support on ati? So regardless of it being physx or some other application that uses cuda to do certain stuff...You're planning to mke it work on ati cards?
That would be awesome! There are already apps popping up using cuda to speed things up like video encoding and what not. To be able to use this on both brands would give you lots of freedom. | | | | imm sure that if he had the sdk for havok he would try it as well but have you seen any signs of havok api anywhere??? maybe thats why he tried this in the first place? | | | | couldn't agree more , maybe when Havok is here it can be attempted , but for the time being Physx is all we got....... but that in itself is a good point !! ATI is all uncooperative about this but seriously Where Is Havok?? i think nv won the race and deserve the kudo's for it , slap a sticker on it and make it the standard for physics.... Intel just wants to keep it's share of the market and ATI sold it's soul to the devil....oh wait, or is it nv that's the devil??.....never quite sure?????? Lol...... | | | | I am happy to see all the companies at war once more. I just wish that the X2's would arrive soon, never mind about all this physics stuff. I wonder if you had the Ageia PhysX card in with a 4800 series card, will they work together or even at all? Hmmm. Must try this when I get my hands on a 48xx card. | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by [Carl]  I am happy to see all the companies at war once more. I just wish that the X2's would arrive soon, never mind about all this physics stuff. I wonder if you had the Ageia PhysX card in with a 4800 series card, will they work together or even at all? Hmmm. Must try this when I get my hands on a 48xx card. | Well I've got an ageia PPU physx card in my system with an ATI 3870X2 using catalyst 8.6 graphic driver and nvidia's physx driver...works fine....they are independant of each other....Actually the PHYsx driver I'm using is Nvidias latest one that supports both the ageia card and Geforce graphics cards as physx accelerators....sort of makes me wonder if it would be possible to put a Nvidia graphics card in as a dedicated physx card to work along side ATI cards that are doing the graphics?
Would be interested in Regen's view on this. | | | | like a cheap little 8600 when the drivers support it? | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by n3omatrix like a cheap little 8600 when the drivers support it? | Yeah...Precisely. | | | | thought bout' that one meself...... | | | | I have a 4870. I can not wait to test this wrapper.  | | | | I care it much. mostly on when it will be given out for using | | |
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