Ageia PPU 128 MB card on it way, how do i use?

[maximiza]

Managed to get one at a steal of 26 dollars delivered. Used of course. Just donwload the drivers form Nvidia when I install it? Does anyone have experance with this card? I need to have it working in XP 32 and Vista ultimate 64.

 

[gamerk316]

Well, you should only have to plug it in, and download drivers. Problem is NVIDIA dropped support for the PPU. You would probably have been better off with a 9500GT...

 

[megamanx00]

Yeah, well perhaps not a 9500, a 9600 or higher card would probably be faster for physX.

 

[maximiza]

I understood that I could use the Ageia card with an ATI card like a 4870 x2 to get the best of both worlds, 2 differnt video cards can have problems I thought. would at 9500 work with a 4870 x2?

thanks for input dudes

 

[gamerk316]

I guess you could dig up one of the old driver packages for the PPU; its just unsupported at this point.

The real problem is Vista. You can't install two seperate display drivers, meaning you can't mix a NIVIDIA PPU (what I call a NVIDIA card doing physX) with a ATI card. (XP/7 can do this, however).

 

[maximiza]

Nvidia relased new stabdalone drivers for Ageia cards in June 2009 for all Widow systems. I am in business... I am getting UT3 today and give it a spin. I will see if XP or Vista works better.

 

[spanner_razor]

Out of curiousity is the Ageia card PCI express full speed, I'm assuming it is but I have not spare PCI-E slot and wondered if it was x4 or x1?

 

[maximiza]

my pci-e slots are 8x when in sli