NVIDIA enables PhysX and CUDA support for GeForce 8 and better GFX cards

yeah, if you notice any Improvement in games that doesnt support Physx its either the driver or its an illusion

 

That's right, these games and ONLY these games will see any change. Any others games you feel an increase/decrease in performance is either completely placebo or due to the video drivers, but NOT PhysX!

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_physxgames_home.html

Edit: Whoa, I didn't know Mass Effect was on the list... I have to try that out! Teehee

 

Does this new driver set provide any benefit to XPS M1730's with a PhysX hardware card already onboard?

 

I'll give this a try when I get to my pc. If I still have Cellfactor Revolution, I fire it up and give some updated performance impressions.

And GRAW 2 as well I suppose.

 

Hey Forerunner, I hate to ask you bud, but do you think you could get an .inf for Vista x64? If it's too much to ask, I'll just wait, but you've always been extremely helpful in the driver front, so figured I would put it out there.

 

Did you try the one from Laptopvideo2go?

 

So will it increase performance on 8600M GT? Or should I stick with my old drivers? (Too lazy to read the whole thread)

 

Mainly, nope, but it will give you a boost if you are playing a Physx supported.

 

Call of Duty runs MUCH better for me now.

 

Just curious how this works if you have an actualy physx card installed in your system (XPS M1730). Is this driver suppose to overwrite your old physx drivers are work with them?

Not a whole lot o info on this matter.

BTW, there's quite a few games that support physx now. Close to 100 games now;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX

Eventually all you'll see is physx supported games. Why do you think Nvidia purchased this technology from Ageia?

Installed these drivers and I didn't see any updates to my physx drivers, also performance has dropped a few points in 3dmark06. Seems studder more during gaming. /shrug

 

the new physx driver does nothing on the 8600m gt ddr3, no improvements in Oblivion, masseffect, team fortress2, or COD4. Wonder if I'll ever bump into a game where this will actually pay off.

 

Mass effect should eventually have a PhysX update, but without it of course your not gonna feel a difference.

 

UT3 uses it.
Download the PhysX mod (around 500mb), and try a PhysX map.

it does work, just tried it yesterday....
do i think its worth it? maybe not.

Would I like to see tons of physX-enabled games?
hell yes.

 

btw what's the different between cpu calculate and gpu calculate??

 

I saw improvement. Sorry if that doessn;t fly with you.

 

I asked the same question earlier. I'm guessing that the new drivers won't benefit XPS M1730's with a PhysX card because it sounds like it steals GPU resources to perform physics calculations already being done by the dedicated PhysX card. If anything, I'd expect performance loss because of the latter.

 

I just downloaded everything and ran the new UT3 maps and considering it was all free I'm not disappointed. Heat Ray ran near perfect and I only noticed a little slowdown on the tower map (forgot the name already lol) when I destroyed a wall with the impact hammer, but when I played Tornado it ran like crap. The wind blowing the boxes around combined with all the dust and the constant explosions from rockets etc seemed too much for my 8800M gts. I'm gonna keep messing around with it and checking actual fps tomorrow (after 3am here and I'm tired) and comparing gpu/cpu temps and cpu utilization while playing and report back also gonna check out Warmonger