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A small startup known as "Ageia" has produced a chip that can help process games with the PhysX code embedded into it. One example they noted was Unreal Tournament. The Engine improves game physics by accelerating those games that support those instruction sets. It sounds similar to when Intel wanted to release MMX instruction sets. In this case though, they went the sega route and added a card to supplement it, rather than integrating it or licensing it with a chipset manufacterer.
In any case, if you're interested, here is the developers website:
http://www.ageia.com/
and here is the article from "extremetech"
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1965512,00.asp
Two manufacterers, BFG and ASUS have cards, and worth $300 bones.
The review was a bit disapointing, but none the less, at least somewhat headed in some right direction. Only time will tell, but it can be as defunct as betamax.
_______________________________________Yes, I am a crackberry addict.... What can i say? I'm a gadget freak!
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i like the betamax analogy!
If only there were more apps!
We're trying to get one in the lab and see how well it works with Killer NIC inside it too... will let ya'll know as soon as we do.
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well, ageia as a stand alone product hasnt worked out too well (not enough games support it)
but now nvidia bought them and will be adding them to their video cards within the next year or so
i think physx has a lot more potential as an add on to a vid card than it ever did as a seperate product
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ELN Board Member, Bigfoot Networks CEO
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Me too... provided NVIDIA Doesn't screw it up! for example: make it only available in DX10 which is only available in Vista!!!
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CEO + Mad Scientist of Bigfoot Networks, Inc.
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