RO & destructable walls?...physics fun, using NVidia-physx and UT3

[Yoshiro]

Well Intel's new GPU push (larrabee or some such) is a gpu built off x86 software platform (ie: same tech your standard CPU is).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU)

So the next few years are going to change the field of GPU's alot I think, moreso then anything we've seen since the release of the geforce 1 series.

 

[fiftyone]

I would have liked to show a video using UT3 but my FPS does not do credit to the facts, so here is a quick Warmonger test.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6dasy_nvidia-physx-warmonger-test-with-88_videogames

 

[AbJ32]

Well Intel's new GPU push (larrabee or some such) is a gpu built off x86 software platform (ie: same tech your standard CPU is).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU)

So the next few years are going to change the field of GPU's alot I think, moreso then anything we've seen since the release of the geforce 1 series.

I'm interested in more details about how exactly it's going to work, but from the sounds of it, it's gonna use a software renderer. Hopefully we wont go back to coding games for the different renderers that different hardware use, like back in the day. (When Intel, Nvidia, SiS, and ATI weren't the only companies still making hardware). But if the market is going to make a big change, Intel will be the company to do it.

 

[fOgGy]

Check this out - http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=504171

If you have Geforce 8,9 and 200 you don't need to spend

 

[SgtH3nry3]

Well Intel's new GPU push (larrabee or some such) is a gpu built off x86 software platform (ie: same tech your standard CPU is).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU)

So the next few years are going to change the field of GPU's alot I think, moreso then anything we've seen since the release of the geforce 1 series.

It's another step towards the extermination of the dedicated GPU and the beginning of the GPGPU (general purpose graphics processing unit).
Basically with this we're going back to the days of the 286 where you had a co-processing unit to compliment the CPU.

At the moment the GPU is only used by 3D applications and sometimes a little bit of video processing, but it could do so much more like audio processing, offload CPU tasks like firewalls, networkcontrolling and background applications or to calculate in-game Newtonian physics.

 

[fiftyone]

For those whom it may concern...
Latest UT3 patch 1.3 go get it..(FileFront) http://files.filefront.com/ut3patch3exe/;11484575;/fileinfo.html

Installed the latest drivers and the Nvidia PhysX Map pack, happily running at 50/60 fps in Tornado, pretty well maxed out graphically with 9 bots to help me out.

Hats off.

Go get it...(Nvidia)...http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewithin/us/download.asp

Only take what you need or want, there is a load of demo's and such..

EDIT : Make sure you unsinstall the Ageia Map Pack before updating Game, Drivers, Map Pack...

EDIT EDIT : Warmonger is also a new version, so if you have not already, uninstall the old version.

Last but not least, it's always usefully to update your friend and mine DirectX...(MS updater)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/directx/aa937788.aspx

Thanks...

 

[fOgGy]

Has anyone here tried out Warmonger as it is a free download game that suppose to make good use of PhysX ?

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

No, all I did was download the fluid demo that came with the pack. Very nice.

One drawback though with the drivers that I encountered. In "The Witcher", when outside at night, all the lanterns (etc) magically show thru buildings and walls when that did not happen with previous drivers. A minor annoyance...

 

[fiftyone]

Has anyone here tried out Warmonger as it is a free download game that suppose to make good use of PhysX ?

Yep, but I haven't checked it out on Mp/on-line.
Just make sure you get the Nv drivers/Nv Aegia/ and game from Nvidia.
A mix of older drivers /game will not work correctly.

Not the best game in the world but lets you see the potential.
Wants GameSpy Comrades.

 

[fOgGy]

Speaking of PhysX, will TWI hopefully support this in their next project ?

 

[Yoshiro]

PhysX is the default physics engine in UE 3. Unless TWI decide to rip it out and put in another, they will probably support PhysX in some way.