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    What games have GPU PhysX option?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by terminus123, Mar 16, 2009.

  1. terminus123

    terminus123 Notebook Deity

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    ATM I only know of three games that have the PhysX option, GRAW, GRAW2, and Mirror's Edge. Are there any more games now and in the future?
     
    terminus123, Mar 16, 2009
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  3. terminus123

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    well are all those games actually have PhysX GPU and PPU support? or just software support?
     
    terminus123, Mar 16, 2009
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    I believe every game on the list has PhysX support in hardware.

    Read the bottom of the screen in the link:

    "To avoid confusion, PC titles that do not take advantage of AGEIA PhysX hardware acceleration are ommitted from this listing. "
     
    Tony_A, Mar 16, 2009
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    wow! Mass Effect has a PhysX hardware acceleration option? sweet!
     
    terminus123, Mar 16, 2009
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    I didn't know that AOE3 takes advantage of PhysX acceler. Cool.
     
    kobe, Mar 16, 2009
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    yea, surprising, can anyone confirm if there truly is a PhysX option?
     
    terminus123, Mar 17, 2009
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    I have Age of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties, which is the most recent expansion to the game. No option for PhysX on the in-game graphics settings. It might be working behind the scenes though.

    Edit: AoE3 uses the Havok engine, which completely supports PhysX IIRC.
     
    avanish11, Mar 17, 2009
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    That was a huge list but I barely could figure out the difference in with & without physx.
     
    spradhan01, Mar 18, 2009
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    It's not a complete list - none of those three are on it!
     
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    wow, that's weird. Another physics engine supports a different company's PhysX acceleration?
     
    terminus123, Mar 19, 2009
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    Actually no. I had a brain fart there :eek: Havok and PhysX are competitors for the software physics market.
     
    avanish11, Mar 19, 2009
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    The list is very good. I belive that Cryostasis will use the physX engine at its full potential.
     
    Periklis_Pap, May 27, 2009
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    Well, I don't know, although there isn't any PhysX option you can toggle in-game, I think I saw some PhysX effects in Wanted: Weapons of Fate. (after all, there's not much to quality options you could toggle there) For example I saw the cloth effect that is present in Mirror's Edge there.
     
    kisetsu17, May 28, 2009
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    PhysX is just an API as far as developers are concerned, as best I know. If the developers use the API, if the hardware is there, it will use it, if it isn't it will use software physics or automatically toggle some effects off. I wouldn't be very suprised if there were no specific "PhysX on/off" button in any games.
     
    sirmetman, May 28, 2009
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