Unreal Tournament 3 Demo and Ageia Physics?

[PFZ1]

Most of the high-end cards do most of what physics cards do without breaking a sweat anyways!!.. so dont worry about them..

 

[ghostwalker]

Plus now that we have multi-core CPUs, they could always write an engine to run on just one of those with the others free for generic use.

 

[JeffMGrant]

The only people I can see adding the Physx card are those with slow S478 or S462 cpus with decent graphics cards that don't want to upgrade their mobos. Personally I'd say drop the money into a new rig with a dual core cpu, but a lot of people run older PCs that don't want to have to buy a new graphics card, mobo, ram, cpu, and probably a PSU just to play UT3. I have a friend that plans to play this game with an AthlonXP 3200+ and a 9800 Pro. I keep telling him to buy a cheap AM2 or C2D mobo, but he refuses. He doesn't want to buy all the parts that go along with that upgrade. Maybe his XP 3200+ Unreal dreams can come true with Physx @ 800x600.

 

[Hatman]

I'm not sure if Gear Of War supports Ageia. Does anybody now.

Yep, on the 360 its using ageia physx too.

Most of the high-end cards do most of what physics cards do without breaking a sweat anyways!!.. so dont worry about them..

Thats because they dont og making physx that GPU's cant handle!! If they based games on Ageias card being there, they could add a lot more!

Plus
now that we have multi-core CPUs, they could always write an engine to
run on just one of those with the others free for generic use.

Thats still nowhere near as good as a GPU and miles away from a PPU.


I was hoping that this would kick off tbh, looks like it wont though.

 

[Rusmurf]

Anyway to take some stress off the GPU, is a good idea. It won't make a difference now, but who knows down the road.

 

[Ilander]

Any performance difference comparison between using it and not using one UT3? It's all well and good to say "well, it won't make the game any prettier," but if it meant a few more frames per second thanks to the cpu doing less, that may be worth it for some...like 8800GTX owners, whose graphics card is bottlenecked by most cpu's (maybe all cpu's...we won't know until a new one comes out!).

 

[stemnin]

One dude on the Epic forums mentioned that he couldn't select the
"hardware physics" on a single core PC, but could on a dual (multi) core. Can anyone check that?

 

[Guest]

well okay i got this card in deal for 99$ and it did help in physics in ut3. what it really helped was in CPU usage. after this card my C2D E6600 doesn't touch 100% cpu usage in UT3.few games support it. i'll keep it for 2 years then till my next PC

 

[soloman02]

Intel bought the Havok physics engine maker, so expect Intel to try to steal the show and make physics work on cpu's, or make their own PPU.