Ageia releases Reality mark test software

THE PHYSX company, Ageia silently announced its Reality mark benchmarketing sofware.

The firm decided it to keep it quiet from journos such as yours truly and we really don't understand what is going on with this stealth tactic. This piece of software should tell you how crappy your machine is before you upgrade it to an Ageia Physx cards that should make it all better.

The company still has a huge problem with the availability of games that will support this hardware and, except GRAW which kind of supports it and is an interesting title, it doesn't have that much to offer.

The company lists the very unsucessiful Bet on Soldier, the unannounced CellFactor, City of Villains, and some game called Dark Physics as the ones that make a physics difference and support its hardware.

You need an Ageia PhysX Accelerator with latest drivers (2.5.1 or later), Windows XP 32- or 64-bit, 1GB of memory or more and at least 1GB of free hard drive.

If you read the documentation more carefully you learn that it actually works in Vista as well, if you installed the right drivers. The benchmark software will run without Ageia card inside but in software mode and the test score will compare your crappy software scores to an Ageia recommended machine powered with PhysX.

You also need a DirectX 9 graphic card with 128 MB or higher to make it work. We will let you know how it works once we download it from this super slow Ageia server, which you can find here. We really urge Ageia to get some decent servers for a start as it takes ages to download just about anything from there. µ