I thought I would report some success here, in case anyone is still having trouble. Definitely use the Hybridiz method at this point.
I purchased a Geforce GT 440, passively cooled, on ebay.
I stuck the card in my motherboard (a x16 slot, since I don't use crossfire).
Downloaded Nvidia 314.22 WHQL.
I ran the prehybrd.exe AS ADMIN. I did this the first time without admin, and it didn't work at all. Then I had to reinstall physx of course. You can actually just reinstall the physx portion, instead of the whole set of drivers. You can search for a physx only installer download.
Installed the nvidia drivers including physx.
Ran the hybridiz.exe AS ADMIN.
Tested with Fluidmark 1.5.2, and got up to 80% utilization of the GT 440. My scores were pretty horrible, but thats to be expected with only 96 shader cores. You have to remove pretty much all the physx files from the fluidmark folder. I recommend sticking them in another folder. I just went one by one moving them until Fluidmark didn't crash and the Physx GPU option was unlocked.
Installed Borderlands 2. Removed the PhysxCore.dll and PhysxDevice.dll.
Ran Borderlands! Getting a solid 60 fps the whole time it seems! I haven't played that much yet, but even with pretty crazy firefights/blood spraying, frame rates are maintained. The core load is only like 5-10 percent. I was pretty worried that the 440 wouldn't be enough for Borderlands, as it seems like people with much higher end cards have problems. I can definitely recommend a 440 or 450 though. I'll try and report back when I get to the more physx intensive portions of the game.
I purchased a Geforce GT 440, passively cooled, on ebay.
I stuck the card in my motherboard (a x16 slot, since I don't use crossfire).
Downloaded Nvidia 314.22 WHQL.
I ran the prehybrd.exe AS ADMIN. I did this the first time without admin, and it didn't work at all. Then I had to reinstall physx of course. You can actually just reinstall the physx portion, instead of the whole set of drivers. You can search for a physx only installer download.
Installed the nvidia drivers including physx.
Ran the hybridiz.exe AS ADMIN.
Tested with Fluidmark 1.5.2, and got up to 80% utilization of the GT 440. My scores were pretty horrible, but thats to be expected with only 96 shader cores. You have to remove pretty much all the physx files from the fluidmark folder. I recommend sticking them in another folder. I just went one by one moving them until Fluidmark didn't crash and the Physx GPU option was unlocked.
Installed Borderlands 2. Removed the PhysxCore.dll and PhysxDevice.dll.
Ran Borderlands! Getting a solid 60 fps the whole time it seems! I haven't played that much yet, but even with pretty crazy firefights/blood spraying, frame rates are maintained. The core load is only like 5-10 percent. I was pretty worried that the 440 wouldn't be enough for Borderlands, as it seems like people with much higher end cards have problems. I can definitely recommend a 440 or 450 though. I'll try and report back when I get to the more physx intensive portions of the game.
