Nvidia preps WHQL Physx drivers for August
Chile sauce
Thursday, 24 July 2008, 11:07
NVIDIA IS EXPECTED to release a WHQL'd Physx driver for a range of its graphics cards in August of this year.
This driver will support Physx acceleration on all support Geforce 8, 9 and newer 2xx series cards, after being received a Microsoft WHQL certificate.
The new Forceware driver is expanding Physx support to all currently available PhysX titles on the market, including Cell Factor, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, and Warmonger.
Unreal Tournament 3 is expected to come with a Physx mod.
We can't get too excited about the availability of Physx drivers until more games support the physics API - hopefully of DAAMIT fanboys continue to progress with Physx drivers, we'll see a decent influx of support.
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Nvidia need to fix the monstrosity they call a 175.19 driver first, alot of peoplel are reporting overheated GFX cards, mainly because the driver reduces fan speed to 35%, also alot of incompatabliites
Physics was supposed to seperate out Bullets & make em act real. Yet in testing it turns out to simply increase speed in card & system at specific points. More of surgical overclocker than anything to do with how laws of physic can be applied to action on computing monitor.

So it might be helpful, yet thats due to lack of testing mechanism for where to accelerate than actual image enhancer, more system enhancer.

In fact, in TOP system it does least good. So Drive On Drivers. It could get more intresting all time.
drashek
Please oh god please re-read what you've written before you click 'send' or 'publish' or whatever. This article was so very painful to read.
"after being received a"

"hopefully of DAAMIT fanboys continue to progress"

Good to see the standard of writing improving on the The Inq.
with many more (millions?) potential cards than standalone Ageia ever had, PhysX is not longer in the middle of the chicken / egg that gave developers a reason not to support it.
We all know that 75% of Inq articles are just rehashes of what the author has read elsewhere (doesn't that make them "boggers"?), but the cutting and pasting has never been so obvious as it was in this article.
Please shoot this messenger for his obvious plagiarism.
Woohoo!, official Physx support for us with G80 cards. Im happy :)
It sounds great on paper, but with the sheer number of cross platform titles plaguing the market today developers aren't likely to use it for game play. Just like with the Ageia cards if they utilize them the systems without PPUs (consoles) cannot support the game.

We are back where we started, only with consoles being the platforms that discourage adoption.