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Professor Tarantula
Hedion University
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Posted - 2010.03.12 15:34:00 -
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 Originally by: Evelgrivion
Oh God, PhysX? Great, now everyone who owns an ATI card won't be able to VIEW the fabric worth a damn, because PhysX is a proprietary to NVidia API.
NVidia, the way it's meant to be played «
My deepest sympathies.
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Professor Tarantula
Hedion University
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Posted - 2010.03.12 16:17:00 -
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I personally wear the same clothes everyday due to an intense fear that thinking about what to wear will turn me gay.
j/k, but some of you guys do need to be a little more secure in your sexualities.
My deepest sympathies.
Prof. Tarantula, Esq. |
Professor Tarantula
Hedion University
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Posted - 2010.03.12 17:46:00 -
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Originally by: Aloriana Jacques
You've echoed my concerns wonderfully. After reading that article... I'm not switching my ATI out for nVIDIA just for one damn game feature. And if that's what they ask, then I've lost all faith in ccp in staying within a generation's technology, not trapping players into a niche available onto to certain hardware.
NVidia and ATI have been slugging it out for years now, and now NVidia has an awesome game engine they aren't even charging game companies to use. It's freeware, and any Windows or linux developers are welcome to use it all they want.
Simply put, ATI is in trouble.
My deepest sympathies.
Prof. Tarantula, Esq. |
Professor Tarantula
Hedion University
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Posted - 2010.03.12 19:05:00 -
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Originally by: brutoid
Notice that last bit, OpenCL and DirectCompute? Thats the way to go in my opinion. Nvidia pay developers to use PhysX, the API is free to use of course, but developers need a little nudge by nvidia to segregate themselves from a huge portion of the playerbase.
Yeah, that's how NVidia do everything. Making arrangements with companies for things like a big long NVidia ad which would play at game startup was another favorite of theirs. I don't much like their rabid self promotion, but they did zig when AMD zagged by going the software route instead of continuing to play the hardware one upping game. As for OpenCL and DirectCompute, it remains to be seen if they'll truly make PhysX irrelevant like AMD claim, but i'd imagine they hope it does.
My deepest sympathies.
Prof. Tarantula, Esq. |
Professor Tarantula
Hedion University
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Posted - 2010.03.12 19:30:00 -
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Originally by: brutoid
Got to take what nvidia say with quite a big pinch of salt nowadays. By the end of this year AMD' Fusion should be firmly on track and Intels Sandybridge cpu is on the horizon. Both of these techs marry the cpu and the gpu onto the same die utilising the same one socket, a dedicted gpu will not be needed for most watchable media etc in the future. Where will this leave nvidia?
I thought Fusion was all but forgotten. Didn't know they were finally thinking about releasing it, but after some googling i discovered it's due out in 2011, if that link is accurate, and you're right, will be interesting to see how Nvidia copes with it.
My deepest sympathies.
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