PhysX is ONLY Nvidia.
Picking a GPU on par with the rest of my system?
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PhysX is ONLY Nvidia.
Blazkowicz
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No, it runs on CPU too, but nvidia deliberately cripples it : single-threaded x87 code (and I wonder what's done on 64bit systems).
This annoys me as I am pro-nvidia, but in some way they are effectively still evil. Dunno if the status of PhysX on CPU has changed.
A game can probably use PhysX libraries no matter what, but reserve the heavier effects for when GPU acceleration is present.
Someone would need to reimplement it (in the same way Wine implements Windows APIs), but using multiple threads and SSE2/SSE3 or higher. But it must be patented to hell, so if Intel or AMD or maybe someone like Lucidlogix did it, they would probably be cease&desisted or sued.
This annoys me as I am pro-nvidia, but in some way they are effectively still evil. Dunno if the status of PhysX on CPU has changed.
A game can probably use PhysX libraries no matter what, but reserve the heavier effects for when GPU acceleration is present.
Someone would need to reimplement it (in the same way Wine implements Windows APIs), but using multiple threads and SSE2/SSE3 or higher. But it must be patented to hell, so if Intel or AMD or maybe someone like Lucidlogix did it, they would probably be cease&desisted or sued.
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