vdek

That article says nothing about the Wii using GPU Physx, most likely PhysX was offered to enable easy cross platform porting.

vicious_fishes

i dont even know where to begin with this.

*facepalm*

physx will die.

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saulin

It does mention. Even though it's built on an ATI graphics chip so that's what I got from it.

All I know that only certain companies have licensed PhysX on the Wii. Is not like everyone is using it. But there is a huge list of PhysX games for consoles already.

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vdek

PhysX will die when all game developers start to roll their own advanced physics engine or an open source one gets an extreme amount of polish.

Which is to say not any time soon.



Actually I should say Intel has the chance to kill off PhysX with Larrabee/Havok if they decided to offer it completely free.


I take it you've never tried writing one before or doing any kind of physics simulations... It's not easy and the people who can do it well don't work for free and aren't cheap.

brooze113

this, all physx effects could be done without physx. There is just code in the game to make stuff run awfull without physx.

Nvidia is just damaging the gaming industry piece by piece

OmegaNemesis28

Again with the costs. That isn't my point, and never was. Realize that I'm comparing the actual engines.

What am I stating then? Clearly you don't know.
I don't need to physically break down an engine bit by bit to compare the results of the engine. YOU'RE the one who has no proof.

This isn't an Nvidia section.
AAAAND
I don't bash Nvidia anywhere. Infact, if you had ANY clue what you were talking about...

So you're not getting tired of anything, you're just over exaggerating and making stuff up at this point.


And I'm saying how physX isn't the only one that can do that and others are out there that do better. Yet, people are treating PhysX like it's the most amazing thing they've seen.

What? No, physX won't die. It's support has increased in games. It's doing the exact opposite.

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vdek

Really? Where are these other GPU accelerated physics engines?

Oh wait, there aren't any besides PhysX...

SLeeZeY

Actually there was proprietary code that blocked ATI cards, and when altered to read ATI cards as Nvidia the game played identically

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vdek

Proprietary AA code that Nvidia wrote for the game. Don't forget that part.

OmegaNemesis28

Fine. You have me there. I'm not going to sit back and deny it.
But my point still stands, there are other engines like Havoc that can do effects like physX if not better. Even performance wise. If people like Naughty Dog can get Havoc running on a console at 720p natively with a constant 30fps with 2x AA and vsync (which fyi - not alot of devs can do, especially the PS3), then the GPU acceleration isn't anything big unless you're talking PC only. Which again it's exclusive.

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