Ageia PhysX?

***Zardon*** · May 9, 2006, 05:00 AM

Vote and discuss !

Bart1987 · May 9, 2006, 05:22 AM

Im not interested in it. Unless they drastically lower the price of it.
It might be interesting for people who have a lot of cash.

bug77 · May 9, 2006, 05:39 AM

Wouldn't buy one ATM. Or anytime soon.
Sorry Ageia, that's not how you enter/create a market.

IvanV · May 9, 2006, 05:53 AM

Not interested. I've seen the comparison screenshots from GRAW and I really don't think think that it was something unseen. In my opinion they could have done it without the card, but they wanted it this way to promote it. I don't think it will become a necessity unless someone really decides to force it upon us. It's an expensive product that there is no need for, especially with CPUs going multicore soon.

mkk · May 9, 2006, 06:12 AM

Games need better physics programming rather than more raw calculating power. I also have a feeling that with physics cards or especially when offloading physics calculations onto the GPU it will be more about "eye candy physics", than physics affecting the gameplay.

Sandok · May 9, 2006, 09:30 AM

Not interested.... With dual core and all becoming of norm, this can be introduced in current PCs.

The_Neon_Cowboy · May 9, 2006, 02:27 PM

@ $299 dallors retail I don't think thier will be many takers. Surely kills the early rumors the cards would be about $149 this is is 200% of what was said. It's not cost effective considering ATI and nvidia both have thier own soultions. Both are better when u figure in for example spending that extra $300 on crossfire or SLI would benfit all games and get you thier PPU support. Even in non ppu suported games gain makes more since....

Agia's soultion no longer makes since unless you have $300 to burn

Dark Lord · May 9, 2006, 02:38 PM

so far im not impressed by whats been shown.

now down the road some day when more developers start useing it, and start getting really serious about physics, then maybe the card will become useful.

nicnik · May 9, 2006, 03:31 PM

after reading all the reviews i will not be getting one unless a big title shows up and demands the need of the card. (unreal 2k7??)

Zelig · May 9, 2006, 03:37 PM

I'm not interested. I don't play enough games to justify it, and currently do fine with a $200 video card every couple of years.

Erroneus · May 9, 2006, 03:57 PM

ALOT more games are needed and these games need to use effects like i cellfactor, the ones in GRAW wasn't that impressive. Also it's quite dissapointing to se fps loss when using the PhysX card.

Yeah I'm waiting to see what Nvidia an ATI delivers.

~~Alien1~~ · May 9, 2006, 04:59 PM

I am waiting to see what Nvidia and Ati has to offer

I am not really interested right now especially with the current PPI sollutions
I am not impressed

Lowfat · May 9, 2006, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IvanV

Not interested. I've seen the comparison screenshots from GRAW and I really don't think think that it was something unseen. In my opinion they could have done it without the card, but they wanted it this way to promote it. I don't think it will become a necessity unless someone really decides to force it upon us. It's an expensive product that there is no need for, especially with CPUs going multicore soon.

couldn't say it better myself.

CDsDontBurn · May 9, 2006, 05:56 PM

i'm with the bandwagon

Richie-b · May 9, 2006, 06:32 PM

Not interested in this by a long shot. Another excuse to to add more clutter to the inside of a case when current solutions can more than manage the job.

mainman · May 9, 2006, 06:43 PM

Useless. If havoc introduces a multicore physics engine that takes advantage of current multicore cpu's i dont see much use for this piece of silicon. really not worth it in my opinion.

BWX · May 9, 2006, 07:00 PM

I am waiting to see what other games come out and how they perform and how they benefit form the technology..

Therefore I didn't vote- none of the answers are accurate.

hey mainman.. how did you get such a big sig picture? I thought it was a 150 pixel limit?

**Vikingod** · May 9, 2006, 10:18 PM

I love the idea of realistic physics more than I do of realistic graphics. I don't think Agiea went about it the right way however and that the competition will beat them out if their solutions fit the bill. Ageia will also have a tough time when MS gets this built into Direct X. Wont be buying a card, but maybe another 7800 gtx if the nv solution is promising.

pigdog · May 10, 2006, 03:51 AM

I'll wait and see as well. I'ts good to see someone other than the usual suspects developing something though.

Sometimes I think that nVidia and ATI are more concerned with beating each other for bragging rights rather than looking for truly innovative concepts.

The biggest problem seems to be that not enough game developers are onboard to get it going.

Duranix · May 10, 2006, 04:56 AM

Seems as if you guys haven't seen the Cellfactor vids. (Same on you!

)

Google em

ViRuS2k · May 10, 2006, 09:21 AM

I see there is 21 deluded people that think its wonderfull ROTF....., probably becuse they forked out so much for it they dont want to see the reality in what they just did..
at the moment im waiting to see what nvidia or ati get on becuse at the moment its a frames killing card lol

Falstaff · May 10, 2006, 12:16 PM

buyers remorse..

Judas · May 10, 2006, 12:53 PM

atm, not impressed with current results.... lack of support... yet another card drawing more power... and more things to go wrong.

specially when it appears that with the card in.. the games supporting it default to high quality mode... which.. doesn't allow you to scale it back...

BWX · May 10, 2006, 12:55 PM

I don't think we can say yet that those people who bought one got ripped off or are deluded somehow... It is way too early.
Come back to this thread in one year, then we will be able to say if this "physics card thing" is a passing fad or something that is going to be worth while.

It's just way to early to say right now.

mike2h · May 10, 2006, 01:06 PM

mgiht consider it in 4-6 months. assuming they come out with rev2 at $200 or less proce & actually have some true significant support.
also wished they would come out with a pcie vers. somebody needs to stsrt makinguse of those slots.
bty, do pcie slots use irqs the same way the pci system does?

Judas · May 10, 2006, 01:12 PM

not saying it's a fad at all.. i actually consider it'll have great value... dedicated hardware physics processing is no different then dedicated sound or dedicated video.

Just right now, it's not always wise to get the new stuff, wait 3 generations (so another year and a half? )

Quarter · May 10, 2006, 05:28 PM

Maybe someday, but not today.

Rox271 · May 10, 2006, 06:02 PM

Very controversial. None of the proposed answers to the question is valid for me.
I already have one: No
Im thinking about adding one t