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    Physx Question

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by frag100, Oct 17, 2008.

  1. frag100

    frag100 Notebook Guru

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    Is there a way I can check the staus of the Physx engine on my system to know that I'm benefiting from the feature's it provides and that it's enabled for use? How do I know that my pc is utilizing the Physx engine? I'm using 177.98 drivers that are supposed to take advantage of this system, I'm just wondering if there's some feature in a control panel that shows everything is working properly.
     
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    rigor Notebook Enthusiast

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    Vista control panel has a Nvidia Physx app with some nice demos too..
     
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    frag100 Notebook Guru

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    Yes, In Control Panel. I found those demos and they work great. That tells me the Physx engine is alive and well. But does that mean that my drivers are utilizing the Physx engine in-game? Because when I first discovered those demos, I was using the 176.xx drivers which supposedly don't utilize Physx, yet the demos worked fine. Are those demos proof that the driver's are applying the engine's strengths in-game?
     
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    Deathwinger Notebook Virtuoso

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    180.10 drivers are the first i have seen to give you the option to enable or disable physiX. I'm guessing this means its being utilized for sure now, if not before.
     
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    frag100 Notebook Guru

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    are the 180.10 drivers from laptopvideo2go? And are you using the modded .inf from the same site? Can I mix laptopvideo2go drivers with dox's .inf's... and vise versa, as long as the version numbers match?
     
    frag100, Oct 18, 2008
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    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    Nirvana, Oct 18, 2008
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