Nvidia turns off PhysX support on ATI cards

[nyker96]

Claiming that "GPU PhysX Requires Tight Collaboration Between GPUs, Rendering on ATI Radeon Not Possible."

A somewhat expected move that is long time coming.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multim...PUs_Rendering_on_ATI_Radeon_Not_Possible.html

This is old news, we already have a number of threads on this. Please use those.

Closed for a lack of content/dupe.

-ViRGE

 

[Munky]

I thought it was disabled a while ago. In either case, I don't buy their story. "GPU-accelerated PhysX actually requires an Nvidia graphics chip to do rendering" smells like complete BS to me.

 

[MJinZ]

Uh, is this 1/2 a year too late or what.

 

[OCGuy]

Breaking news!

 

[Creig]

Nvidia turns off PhysX support on ATI cards

Claiming that "GPU PhysX Requires Tight Collaboration Between GPUs, Rendering on ATI Radeon Not Possible."

A completely expected move that was a long time ago.

fixed

 

[RobertR1]

Isn't there a way to bypass this already?

 

[Tempered81]

Hehe, the comments at the bottom of the article are pretty funny. "GPU Phys-X only works in ~15 games. Nvidia digging their own grave."

 

[tweakboy]

This is a weird one, I dont get it. But I can say probably yes!.

 

[Lonyo]

This is a weird one, I dont get it. But I can say probably yes!.

Sometimes it might be better if you didn't say anything at all.

 

[dank69]

This just in: Earth revolves around the sun.

 

[thilanliyan]

This just in: Earth revolves around the sun.

No way??!! D:

 

[NIGELG]

Here we go again...... GPU.PhysX really isn't in much games anyway.....

 

[railven]

Wasn't there a recent thread about the Sony issue and OtherOS and the nVidia issue and PhysX? Maybe someone is ringing the bell?

EDIT:

Oh snap, anyone actually read the article? Unless I misunderstood it, they are dropping support for Aegis entirely?

 

[thilanliyan]

Oh snap, anyone actually read the article? Unless I misunderstood it, they are dropping support for Aegis entirely?

They did that a while back I think.

 

[nemesismk2]

This just in: Earth revolves around the sun.

I don't believe it because everyone knows that the Sun revolves around the Earth. The Sun takes 24 hours to circle the earth thus creating day and night.

 

[Skurge]

this has nothing to do with the story but I just thought I bring it up.

I was playing mirrors edge the other day, my friend was watching, he liked it so he asked me if he could borrow the game. Now he has a GTS250 so his playing and the scene after you find the dead guy and the cops shoot out the windows his FPS tanks. He askes me why that happening, he didn't see it happening on my system (PhysX is on my default in that game) . So i told him it was physX. He says he doesn't see anything different and its just eating up his framerate for no reason. So he played without it.

Back on topic. so they disable it and and only announce it 6 months later?

EDIT:this makes me think. if AMD dropped support for intel cpus with radeons and claimed that tight collaboration between the CPU and GPU was needed to render a 3d scene, making it imposable for AMD GPUs to work with intel CPUs would that be okay to. I suppose some people around here would think so.

 

[nyker96]

to all you guys saying this already happened, yes, I think they started doing this few months ago. but this is the first time they are coming out with 'official explanations' on this. With you know with the weaker than expected dx11 offerings, they will have to make a value proposition elsewhere to entice buyers.

 

[railven]

They did that a while back I think.

I thought they just disabled PPU/GeForces working with another GPU (ie ATI.)

I assumed PPU owners could still use it with their GeForce card (as to offload the work and not take that performance hit.)

I have an Aegis card (somewhere) I guess now it really is useless haha.

 

[konakona]

lol this is like the opposite of a paper launch of a product
do it first, announce it later

 

[Skurge]

lol this is like the opposite of a paper launch of a product
do it first, announce it later

lol, more companies should do that.

 

[Nemesis 1]

No way??!! D:

wrong quote

 

[Nemesis 1]

This just in: Earth revolves around the sun.

Has the Pope confirmed this.

 

[Sureshot324]

Claiming that "GPU PhysX Requires Tight Collaboration Between GPUs, Rendering on ATI Radeon Not Possible."

It's sad that we consider it acceptable for corporations to outright lie like this.

 

[AndroidVageta]

I say class action lawsuit...its the only way to right the wrongs of corporations!

In either case, there are work arounds and Physx has nothing to do with how graphics are displayed on the screen.

 

[Lonyo]

It's sad that we consider it acceptable for corporations to outright lie like this.

You can't really expect a corporation to be honest, can you?