I have been thinking an awful lot about Nvidia's "Hardware Accelerated PhysX".
To me, it seems that PhysX effects are purposefully optimized badly to run on the CPU. I have played several games that utilize certain effects handled by the CPU much more efficiently then PhysX games. I have also experienced non-PhysX hardware accelerated effects that are every bit as good, if not better, than the ones that utilize Nvidia's PhysX.
To me, this seems like sabotage. Willful and blatant sabotage. I believe that Nvidia is paying certain developers to do this. Even if they are not paying developers to sabotage these games, the fact that certain features of the actual game are not available is crime enough.
Now, it never made that much of a big deal to me before. But after playing Batman Arkham Asylum, I am shocked , literally amazed at the degree of effects that are intentionally omitted from the game. Effects that could very easily be handled by AMD cards, if allowed.
Not allowing AMD users to access certain features of a game, a game that we paid for, is wrong.
It's extortion.
To me, it seems that PhysX effects are purposefully optimized badly to run on the CPU. I have played several games that utilize certain effects handled by the CPU much more efficiently then PhysX games. I have also experienced non-PhysX hardware accelerated effects that are every bit as good, if not better, than the ones that utilize Nvidia's PhysX.
To me, this seems like sabotage. Willful and blatant sabotage. I believe that Nvidia is paying certain developers to do this. Even if they are not paying developers to sabotage these games, the fact that certain features of the actual game are not available is crime enough.
Now, it never made that much of a big deal to me before. But after playing Batman Arkham Asylum, I am shocked , literally amazed at the degree of effects that are intentionally omitted from the game. Effects that could very easily be handled by AMD cards, if allowed.
Not allowing AMD users to access certain features of a game, a game that we paid for, is wrong.
It's extortion.