CrossFireX & SLI scaling today

There's three 3rd party maps that no one plays, congratulations.

Yeah no where did I say PhysX games (via gpu) do not exist. As you and Beta so astutely pointed out, they do in fact exist. My point is that market (at the moment) is extremely minimal.

 

UT3 Physics ((with UT3 Physics Pack)) does run off the GPU. But that Physics Pack is the only part of the game that makes substancial use of Physics. And will work on PPU and GPU. The rest of the game does not. It is however a really cool PhysX demo. I love the heatray map with all the hail.

Also Sacred 2 in that list does GPU Physics as does Cryostasis.


http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16820/7

 

Nice to see some games on there, now how about those that actually have Havok ding something for the game itself much like how Physx is doing it for Cryostasis, Mirros Edge, GRAW2 for example.

 

If they all run on the CPU and can't be disabled. It'd probably be difficult to determine that.

 

I was talking about Havok. Any GPU PhysX software can be disabled. GrawX just disables PhysX all together. Doesn't have a CPU PhysX option.

 

All of these games support GPU PhysX ?

 

Um, Physx does nothing for the game in Mirrors Edge. Really nothing. No effect on gameplay at all.

 

Nice try.

 

Precisely, so I don't see how XMAN's response was relevant to Willard's statement (about wanting to see a list of games that have GPU PhysX support). It seems someone needs to give this a read:
The Widespread Support Fallacy

 

These comments are foolish IMO.

Graphics DO SOMETHING for gameplay. This entire site is dedicated to graphics more or less. To say that graphical advances don't effect gameplay is naive. That is why competitive gamers screw with graphics settings to get an advantage, it undoubtedly effects gameplay. The question is whether it is advantageous to the gameplay experience or not and that is up to the users to decide.

 

the whole "graphics don't do anything for gameplay" is complete and utter BS. I have one word for you, GLQuake.

 

What is amazing to me how having more eye-candy or just eye-candy is not a great thing by itself. Since when is this a negative?

The key to Physics as it matures, well it may allow for more eye-candy effects that should change game-play much more.

 

Apart from HL2 I can't think of a A-list game that actually used physics for gameplay.

 

Is that so?
As far as I know, UE3.0 always uses GPU/PPU physics acceleration if there is support.
It just doesn't matter much for the standard UT3 maps because the physics load is so low that performance between CPU and GPU/PPU generally makes little or no difference.

The Ageia maps simply bump up the physics content, giving the GPU/PPU something to do, and giving the CPU more than it can handle. I don't think they're anything other than just maps, so they don't change the engine code in any way. PhysX is handled the same as it always is.

 

And those "puzzles" were fairly lame and rudimentary. The physics in HL2 as far as weight of objects was ridiculous. Teeter totters over and over? HL2 E1 and 2 both had the prerequisite teeter totters, but this time you shove crap underneath wow how exciting... Not to mention the physics doesn't work right so the game designers can be lazy. In one of the "boss" fights in E1 I think there is a ant lion queen or whatever those are and I used the gravity gun to pile up some stuff from above so I could jump down to trigger the thing and then climb up the boxes to pick it off. You try to get on the boxes and they fall all over just b/c they don't want you to get on top. I guess the wooden crates are full of helium balloons...