PhysX actual in game footage!!!

[sawyen]

Have you guys seen this?

The Ghost recon explosion rocks..

And Cell Factor is sooooo promising..

Bet on Soldiers.. nahh..

Linky here: http://physx.ageia.com/footage.html

[kempez]

Looks very very sweet

Damnit I wasn't gonna buy any PC stuff

[unreal]

Whoa that looks too good, I really want one now

[schmunk]

Bet on Soldiers.. nahh..

Doesn't look great, but hey, everybody loves a flamethrower!

[sawyen]

The explosion for Ghost Recon is legend...

And those phy-power thingy + those gigantic physics with barrels and other debris in cellfactor is just too cool to be true...

And check out the alpha blending... top of its class..

[Butcher]

And check out the alpha blending... top of its class..

That's done on the GPU though...

[ajones]

Will be interesting to see how HavocFX compares (and whatever ATI will call their's). I may go SLI after all....

[sawyen]

Will be interesting if ATI works with Ageia.. Cross computation across PCI express.. works just like SLI, but this time ur not bound to a specific GPU during upgrade..

[leeglf]

i have heard about this for a while and not been that interested but after seeing that ghost recon footage i want one!!!

[sawyen]

What if PhysX comes up with a multi-PPU solution? a dual PPU board with 512MB DDR3.. You can even simulate facial hair and ear goo with that amount of PPU power...

[ajones]

What if PhysX comes up with a multi-PPU solution? a dual PPU board with 512MB DDR3.. You can even simulate facial hair and ear goo with that amount of PPU power...

ROFLMAO!

[Hans Voralberg]

Yummy, BFG have one priced for $300, quite a fair bit of money to be fair.

[TooNice]

What is the compatibility like?

Cellfactor looks sweet.

[ajones]

If the engine take up by game designers is good, then could we see this as a way of enabling "SLI-like performance enhancements" on non-SLI systems?

I remember buying a Voodoo2 to pair with my Matrox Millenium many moons ago, when 2D/3D combo cards where pretty naff. Are we going to see the same with independent Physics cards, if the big 2 start integrating PPU capabilities into their GPUs?

[sawyen]

Seems HAVOC is the green eye monster here.. teaming up with Nvidia and such, but having SLI to drive PPU is slightly impractical.. If you think now..

Say u have a 7800GT now.. in order to run PPU on SLI, u'll need another 7800GT..

After say a year or so, gfx demands go up.. perhaps PPU demands did not, but ur stuck with 2x7800GT.. while others are using 8800 Ultra or N800 GTX etc etc with a good old PhysX.. In order to get the PPU to work again with better gfx IQ, u'd have to sell 2 7800GT.. then invest the money on TWO high end cards again.. which I think a dedicated PPU shud cost less...

I cant see the sense really.. Unless PPU gets obsolete as fast as GPUs..

A high end GPU now would be mid range in 6 months.. lowish-mid in a year.. perhaps even discountinued..

[TooNice]

Actually, I still don't get why you MUST have SLI for this to work o.O