Nvidia Disables PhysX in Presence of ATI GPU

[Onus]

I'm sure there's no law being broken here. It's just bad business to not co-exist. This is an example of cutting off one's nose to spite the face. NVidia is saying "All or NOTHING," and I think a lot of people will say "Ok then, nothing."

 

[caponewgp86]

Is this how nvidia plans to get people to spend 500-600 bucks on a graphics card

 

[Guest]

nvidia has always been solely about nvidia. I purchased an 6800gt when they first came out, found out the chip itself was broken. What did nvidia do? Tried to charge for a lame software fix. I prefer not to give my money to nvidia, ATI is much more comsumer friendly anyway. Crossfire support is free for any vendor to use, nvidia on the other had charges $30,000 plus $3 per mobo. They have influenced many game vendors and even futuremark, without thier shennanigans the GPU market would be a much better place. Goodby nvidia and hello wonderful ATI

 

[Restricted-X]

so Nvidia's basically telling Ati to make thier own physx engine...
unlike the havoc physics engine which is open source, we have the Nvidia Physx engine which was coded by Nvidia dev programmers or whatever which was coded for thier hardware.so, because Ati is the competition it's obvious Nvidia cut off Ati getting any bonus from something Nvidia wanted for their hardware only...

 

[mohsentux]

if the official drivers don't support freedom so will modded drivers

 

[Trueno07]

[citation][nom]08nwsula[/nom]I think someone is jealous[/citation]

Sums it all up 😀

I'm more excited for the decrease in the prices of ATI's cards, and not the new Nvidia cards.

 

[Mr Maims]

I'm a little disappointed, as I wanted to get some more use out of my 8800 in my new build, but can't say I'm surprised. Hell, I thought this was the case from the start. I can understand nVidia's reasoning, but one: this shrinks their potential customer base. I mean, you just KNOW there's a bunch of people out there cracked enough to go out and buy an nVidia card just for PhysX. Two, I can't shake the feeling that this violates antitrust laws...