New PhysX driver for Nvidia

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Seaking
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New PhysX driver for Nvidia

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Just came across this over at 3dguru, it's been out since the 12th Aug.

Anyone using it yet ?

http://www.guru3d.com/article/physx-by-nvidia-review/1
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Re: New PhysX driver for Nvidia

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It's only really relevant to programs that utilise PhysX which at the moment isn't a lot. You can find a list here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX

Although to be honest it doesn't tell the whole story. Many developers used PhysX for minor things such as the positioning of solid objects on maps and not for actual physics simulation (in the case of Pirates of the Burning Sea for example), in fact off the top of my head only a few of those listed games will actually benefit from the addition of either a dedicated PhysX card or an 8 series Nvidia CUDA compatible card running the latest drivers.

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Re: New PhysX driver for Nvidia

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You can grab them here for anyone who is interested:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewith ... wnload.asp

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