AGEIA PhysX Demonstration Video- WOW!

[Googer]

This is my favorite one.
Just look how fluid the motion is in these games, how every thing falls apart like it should and notce individual boards that make up the wooden box move and break. The Airplane crash is spectacuar.
http://www.ageia.com/press/Airtight/DivxPhysxAirtight720x400.avi



More Videos here:
http://www.ageia.com/press/press4.html

 

[Mik3y]

wow.

 

[Czar]

it started realllyy boring

then it went to the big explosions, wow wow wo

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Now to only get it in the hands of developers, I want my games where you no longer absolutely need the blue key, because your big gun is more than enough to open up the door for you (or perhaps a wall).

 

[Elcs]

Im a PPU fan, think it will be great but at 9:53am, Im not feeling the love.

Some nice graphics, some nice multiple object moving, multiple angles and scenarios but it just didnt have that spark to entice me.

I guess I prefer the water effects PPU's could create rather than cliche feeling fighter planes crashing into hangers.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

looks impressive at 4:15am

 

[Excelsior]

Looks impressive at 5:22 AM.

 

[Slik]

Dosen't look impressive at 5:30AM.

 

[obeseotron]

Looks like $250 that's going to stay in my pocket at 6:51 AM.

 

[biostud]

the video effects are lousy in the demo, but the physics are smashing

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: obeseotron
Looks like $250 that's going to stay in my pocket at 6:51 AM.

$250! Jeeze! I am not spending that. I guess after they get enogh of these sold they will for another $250 introduce the IPU- "Inteligence Processing Unit". I think someone is making some serious profit of of these. If you can get an Intel or AMD CPU for less than $150 then I know they can sell these for much less than they want us to believe.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea think most of us will be happy with whatever the second cpu core can handle or whatever. 250 bucks better spent on cpu or video card. until the price comes down...meh

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

That looks pretty lame to me. Panels breaking off when shot. I don't see how that was localized damage. Less general maybe, but that's it. Screw that. Here I was hoping for so much more.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
That looks pretty lame to me. Panels breaking off when shot. I don't see how that was localized damage. Less general maybe, but that's it. Screw that. Here I was hoping for so much more.

Did you see the Airplane Crash? Those boxes falling and the bombs flying then bouncing from the rails were pretty darn real and fairly clost to what might happen in real life. Didn't you notice the way the air was circulating throgh the engine of the jet when it was being shot? I thought it was fairly convincing. I do admit the water effects are not great but that could be a programming problem and not a hardware issue. Ageia says you can write your own physics for these so that things might behave differantly as if we were in another universe.

 

[IeraseU]

I'm not buying an add on card for physics. I want it to either be incorporated into the graphics card itself or to be handled by the CPU, perhaps by an additional core. I think having a card in your pc just to do physics is not a very efficient design. Reminds me of when we needed seperate cards to handle 2d and 3d back in the voodoo 1 days.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Yeah, but the rate of fall was way too slow, and you would think that a PPU would have calculated that right. Seems like nothing had a natural fall to it to me though. I don't know. I'm sure others will fine a use for it, but I won't be saving a slot for it, on this machine or the future gaming machine.

Thanks for the post though!

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
Yeah, but the rate of fall was way too slow, and you would think that a PPU would have calculated that right. Seems like nothing had a natural fall to it to me though. I don't know. I'm sure others will fine a use for it, but I won't be saving a slot for it, on this machine or the future gaming machine.

Thanks for the post though!

 

[w00t]

I highly doubt a deagle does that to boxes and a plane.

i really wasnt impressed like all the peices would fall apart like a lego is stupid you would see more fire there would be a huge explosion think 9/11 did it look like that nope. than shooting a box with a bullet would nto break a peice like that it would put a hole thru the way bullets are is when they go into an object they expand as they are going out take this for example i shot a cactus with my dad's rifle there was a very small whole in the front but in the back there was a huge whole almost in a funnel shape.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: w00t
I highly doubt a deagle does that to boxes and a plane.

Heh.
Still pretty damn slick though, but for the price....? We'll see.

 

[Unkno]

if nobody buys it, it would soon end up to nearly the same price for a sound card

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: Unkno
if nobody buys it, it would soon end up to nearly the same price for a sound card

Let's start the ATOT effect. Nobody buy this, it'll benifit us all....

.

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: IeraseU
I'm not buying an add on card for physics. I want it to either be incorporated into the graphics card itself or to be handled by the CPU, perhaps by an additional core. I think having a card in your pc just to do physics is not a very efficient design. Reminds me of when we needed seperate cards to handle 2d and 3d back in the voodoo 1 days.

Yeah, and I sure as hell ain't buying an add on card for sound or graphics. Seriously. Why should they get their own processor?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Unkno
if nobody buys it, it would soon end up to nearly the same price for a sound card

Um, that, or it will just die off like other technology that didn't make it, and then possibly very useful technology is lost. *sniff* :misses 3dfx & programming in Glide; *sniff*

 

[Pariah]

Bleh, not impressed. Certainly not by the shooting crate demo. Didn't look realistic at all. I'm going to guess the fall rate was intentionally slowed down so you could see what was happening, but all that really did was accentuate how unrealistic the modeling was. The liquid demos on AGEIA's site were more impressive, but I don't really see how that effect would be put to good use in a game. The "in game fluids" avi's were pretty lame to put it kindly. Maybe the demos would be better if they also created the same demos not using the hardware so we could see how much better this hardware really makes the game look. I can remember the first demos 3dfx released and they had a wow effect that has yet be matched in computer gaming. There was no need for before and after shots as the graphics were so vastly superior to everything else out there. If AGEIA expects people to plunk down $250 for an additional piece of hardware on top of the already expensive gaming rig parts, I want to see the same knock my socks off improvements. These demos didn't do it.

Edit, one side note. Looking at the board shot on their site it appears to be a reversable, PCI/PCI-E card. Is that how the production card is going to work, or is that just an engineering sample with both slots for testing purposes?

 

[Rubycon]

LOL that is very poor accuracy.

The gravity is way off, bombs hitting the railing (at the end) would definitely cause damage and not be deflected.

Don't even get me started on the fact that the handgun was fired many times yet there was no recoil, the hammer didn't move and it never needed a clip change!

Fakopolis!