PhysX on ATI Cards

[j3thro]

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ATI users di na mo maguol kung dili ka dagan ang PhysX sa inyon VC kay naay utility in progress that will let you run PhysX on your ATI cards. I actually found a patch that works like this but the patch only runs on Windows 7


ATI Runs PhysX With Modified Drivers


Haifa (Israel) - This one did not take long: We already knew that Nvidia is working on a CUDA version for x86 CPUs, but said it would leave a modification for ATI GPUs to others. Eran Badit of ngohq.com told us that he has done it already and was able to get the Nvidia PhysX layer to run on ATI Radeon cards.

After playing with Nvidia’s CUDA SDK and PhysX SDK, Eran apparently got the PhysX layer to play along with Radeon cards. He mentioned that enabling PhysX support on Radeon cards is not particularly difficult, leading us to believe that physics on graphics cards may not so much be a technology problem but a game of politics.

Eran said that he will be offering the ATI PhysX-enabling utility on ngohq.com as soon as he gets his hands on more hardware to check the application on more than one graphics card. We are told that he is testing hardware already, which means that the software should be available "soon".

On his first run, Eran got a 22,606 CPU score in 3D Mark Vantage, enhancing the overall score to P4262. A comparable system without PhysX-support will cross the finish line at about P3800.

We are told that there is currently no relationship between ngohq.com and AMD’s PR team, which means that Eran does not have access to Radeon 4850 or 4870 cards. Check the NGOHQ.com website for the software to become available this weekend.

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[thermaltake]

this is a goods news for ATI user.....

[personalmgt]

I'm not buying this trick. If you look closely on the article date, its dated June 26, 2008. If this trick truly works including all functionalities of PhysX not to mention CUDA, then everyone that is using ATI could have been using this trick already. But sadly, I barely see anyone use this trick.

Remember: "No amount of glitching will give you the unrealistic expectations you want in a game" (Quote rephrased) -EarlZ

[j3thro]

Dumb! didn't see the date, actualy when I first searched about this, the article I post didn't showed up so I thought this is new. I mentioned a Patch Re-Enables PhysX When ATI Card is Present, a good start but this is a bit complicated, the patch only works on dual cards (one nvdia, one ATI) and on windows XP and 7, the link for the patch is on the article itself

[andz]

hmm old namani, sak2 si personalmgt, although to stay in topic:

I was able to run my 4890 CF w/ a 9800GT before on windows 7 lol. but the newer drivers made that hard to do, and there newer ways to do it. It's possible but very hassle, sometimes it just hard to work depending on the drivers