Rumors: Ageia bought out

[LTG]

It's not going to happen. Neither Intel or NVidia will acquire them.

Their hardware is totally dead. Their only hope is to establish their SDK interface as a neutral standard for engines, where programmers could write to it but it would be powered by NVidia/ATI/ or CPU cores.

 

[taltamir]

mmm, their hardware is getting old. And they arent bringing in something new, yet.

Forget ragdoll physics for non death situations. I Wanna see medical physics... and sharpnel... Shoot a barrel full of explosives? realistic shards of metal fly everywhere and whomever they hit is subjected to physically calculated injuries which affect their system.

And murder simulators will finally be able to simulate real murder...

 

[CP5670]

Originally posted by: Sureshot324
Game developers develop games designed for the hardware available at the time. That is why game's demands of CPUs and GPUs stay balanced with the hardware that is available, instead of some games being massively GPU limited or CPU limited. If physics hardware became more mainstream, game developers would make games take advantage of it.

This is the problem with the whole concept of a dedicated physics card. People have no reason to buy it if there are hardly any games supporting it, and developers won't make the games if the user base doesn't exist. I can't see physics hardware going anywhere in the future unless it's integrated onto video cards.

 

[taltamir]

Its a catch 22. No games if there is no hardware, no hardware if there are no games... It requires a serious push by a company like microsoft to create both at once.
Take the xbox... microsoft had to purchase many excellent game companies and force them to release their games as xbox only or to release on xbox first... if I am not mistaken the original halo was supposed to be a PC game until its maker was bought by MS who changed it to an Xbox only game.

Ageia did not have such monetary backing, so they had to rely on game developers using their tech because its "that good"... for the less then 1% who owned such cards.

Anyways, Ageia will die when DX11 is released with GPU based physics.