marmaduke

I was just reading another post regarding the PhysX drivers. It is my understanding they are included with the regular Nvidia drivers. Is this correct? Do all the newer drivers have PhysX capabilities? Can someone tell me which was the last pre-PhysX driver?

My son has the G80 8800GTS card. He installed one of the drivers last night and said his fps in one game (PhysX capable game) went from 5fps to 25fps. So I guess something is working.

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bluedevil

Yes, anything that is a Nvidia 8 series and above has a PhysX chip built on the PCB. What games.....This list should tell ya.....and you need the latest drivers to take advantage of PhysX!

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Chickenman

It's not a PhysX chip - they just made it so the gpu can process physx instructions.

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bluedevil

Ah.....sure...........here is a ton more info on PhysX.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX

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10acjed

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Th G80 is supported with PhysX i thought...

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bluedevil

They do, through CUDA.

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Blameless

Any NVIDIA card that supports PhysX does so through CUDA. NVIDIA makes no physics specific hardware, and has no reason to.

175.16 was the last WHQL driver thad did not include PhysX.

Anyway, you can take it out of any driver by just extracting the nvidia exe deleting the physx install program, then just use setup.exe to install the driver, or do it manually with device manager.