nVidia Physx

[thilanliyan]

Will a secondary nvidia addon card be able to do PhysX??

I have an 8800GT right now and I figure once I get an ATI 48X0 card I could use the GT for PhysX. Or would the 2 different cards not play nice?

 

[ViRGE]

The 2 cards won't place nice as-is. You need to be able to load the video drivers for both, and Windows only allows one set of drivers. Now if NVIDIA made some drivers that only did CUDA, then you could get away with it.

 

[thilanliyan]

Hmmm...well, hopefully they have a separate driver eventually.

 

[Blazer7]

I believe that this is what you're looking for.

The really good news: PhysX for the GeForce 9800 GTX, 9800 GTX+, and GTX 260/280 cards will be enabled by the ForceWare 177.39 driver, timed to launch with the GTX+. And NVIDIA says it will gradually roll out PhysX support to the full GeForce 8/9 line.

Article on Hot Hardware

 

[aka1nas]

You can't run two different (WDDM)display drivers at the same time in Vista. You could probably give it a try in XP.

 

[HurleyBird]

I want to do the same thing with my GTS 320 so I can have accelerated PhysX and Havoc. Of course, NVIDIA isn't going to make doing so easy. Someone will probably figure out a way to make it work eventually though.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
You can't run two different (WDDM)display drivers at the same time in Vista. You could probably give it a try in XP.

The thing is that such a driver should already exist for the Tesla products (which don't have any video-out components), but it's anyone's guess on how much work it would take to make such a driver work on a GeForce, and if NVIDIA wants to do it in the first place.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: aka1nas
You can't run two different (WDDM)display drivers at the same time in Vista. You could probably give it a try in XP.

The thing is that such a driver should already exist for the Tesla products (which don't have any video-out components), but it's anyone's guess on how much work it would take to make such a driver work on a GeForce, and if NVIDIA wants to do it in the first place.

From a quick look at Nvidia's website, the Tesla boards still use a Forceware release with CUDA support.