NVIDIA Removes Restriction on ATI GPUs with NVIDIA GPUs Processing PhysX

[Bodkin]

NVIDIA has reportedly removed the driver-level code which restricts users from having an NVIDIA GeForce GPU process PhysX with an ATI Radeon GPU in the lead, processing graphics. Version 257.15 Beta of the GeForce drivers brought about this change. Possible commercial interests may have played NVIDIA's previous decision to prevent the use of GeForce GPUs to process PhysX with ATI Radeon GPUs, where users could buy an inexpensive GeForce GPU to go with a high-end DirectX 11 compliant Radeon GPU, thereby reducing NVIDIA's margins, though officially NVIDIA maintained that the restriction was in place to ensure Quality Assurance. The present move also seems to have commercial interests in mind, as NVIDIA could clear inventories of GeForce GPUs at least to users of ATI Radeon GPUs. NVIDIA replenished its high-end offering recently with the DirectX 11 compliant GeForce 400 series GPUs.

http://techpowerup.com/123304/NVIDIA...ing_PhysX.html

[Mad1723]

Seems like we saw the news at the same time!

[kromosto]

two threads with exactly the same topic

[Bodkin]

Lol exact same time too

[eric66]

pfft finally they understood that restricting doesn't benefit you that much instead makes you look like a....hole

[BenchZowner]

Let's see who's gonna be the first one to blame and curse nVIDIA for this

[Mad1723]

I'd say it's a good move, they know in the end it's worth nothing cutting your own technology, it will only hurt your sales.

[munim]

I'd be wary of them disabling the feature again in the future, after people have bought G92s.

[jaredpace]

I'd be wary of them disabling the feature again in the future, after people have bought G92s.

Sounds crazy, but I wouldn't put it past them to pull a fast one.

[Bodkin]

^ that would alienate a huge number of possible future customers

[MrMojoZ]

^ that would alienate a huge number of possible future customers

After seeing how they have gone about things recently I'm not sure they'd care, as long as they unloaded some cards first. Driver level restrictions should have never exisited in the first place. I miss you old school awesome nvidia.

[bamtan2]

^ that would alienate a huge number of possible future customers

nothing to do with physx can alienate "a huge number of possible future customers"

you need to get real or stop lying to yourself

[Bodkin]

nothing to do with physx can alienate "a huge number of possible future customers"

you need to get real or stop lying to yourself

Where the hell did that come from, trollmuch?

[bamtan2]

Where the hell did that come from, trollmuch?

I can call you a troll too. You need to get real. Go back and read it again. People who want to use ATI with Nvidia for Physx game support are not "a huge number of customers".

[Blacky]

That decision is a no brainer, ATI currently has most of DX11 market thanks to nvidia delay, so someone who has a 5870 already won't jump a Fermi for physX...

[SoulsCollective]

Bwahahaha.

Still waiting to hear back from nVidia fanbois who were defending the previous restrictions - "they can't allow ATi cards to work as well, they'll have a QC nightmare and it'll cause all sorts of bugs!". Oh, how the worm has turned.

[Vardant]

Bwahahaha.

Still waiting to hear back from nVidia fanbois who were defending the previous restrictions - "they can't allow ATi cards to work as well, they'll have a QC nightmare and it'll cause all sorts of bugs!". Oh, how the worm has turned.

Actually, the main concern was and still is, that ATI might break this by mistake or on purpose. IIRC someone reported, that it already happened once with Catalyst 10.2 I think.

[stinkas]

Bwahahaha.

Still waiting to hear back from nVidia fanbois who were defending the previous restrictions - "they can't allow ATi cards to work as well, they'll have a QC nightmare and it'll cause all sorts of bugs!". Oh, how the worm has turned.

exactly!!!

[TurboDiv]

Nice. Now PhysX will get all standardized and every game will use it. Those who already have Nvidia won't have to worry too much for a second card ?

[Hornet331]

Nice. Now PhysX will get all standardized and every game will use it. Those who already have Nvidia won't have to worry too much for a second card ?

I take havoc please...

[HelixPC]

List of games that support PhysX, a long and healthy list.

* 2 Days to Vegas
* Adrenalin 2: Rush Hour
* Age of Empires III (Mac version only)
* Alpha Prime
* APB
* Army of Two
* Auto Assault
* Alliance of Valiant Arms
* Batman: Arkham Asylum
* Backbreaker
* B.A.S.E. Jumping
* Bet on Soldier: Blackout Saigon
* Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara
* Bet on Soldier: Blood Sport
* Beowulf: The Game
* Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War
* Borderlands
* Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
* Captain Blood
* CellFactor: Combat Training
* CellFactor: Revolution
* City of Villains
* Crazy Machines 2
* Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
* Dark Physics
* Dark Void
* Darkest of Days
* Desert Diner
* Dragon Age: Origins[20]
* Dragonshard
* Dusk 12
* Empire Above All
* Empire Earth III
* Entropia Universe
* Fallen Earth
* Fat Princess
* Frontlines: Fuel of War
* Fury
* Garshasp
* Gears of War
* Race Driver: Grid
* Global Agenda
* Gluk'Oza: Action
* GooBall
* Gothic 3
* Gunship Apocalypse
* Helldorado: Conspiracy
* Hero's Journey
* Hour of Victory
* Huxley
* H.A.V.E. Online
* iFluid
* Infernal
* Inhabited island: Prisoner of Power
* Joint Task Force
* Just Cause 2
* Kran Simulator 2009[21]
* Kuma\War
* Aura of Wisdom
* Mafia 2
* Magic Ball 3
* Mass Effect
* Mass Effect 2
* Medal of Honor: Airborne
* Metro 2033
* Mirror's Edge
* Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire
* Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
* Monster Truck Maniax
* Myst Online: Uru Live
* Need for Speed: Shift
* Nights: Journey of Dreams
* Nurien
* Odd Blox
* Open Fire (and its successor, Open Fire Gold)
* Overlord 2
* Parabellum
* Paragraph 78
* Pirates of the Burning Sea
* Prince of Persia
* Point Blank
* PT Boats: Knights of the Sea
* Rail Simulator
* Red Steel
* Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends
* Risen
* Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
* Roboblitz
* Sacred 2
* Shadowgrounds (Only on the Linux version)
* Shadowgrounds: Survivor
* Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
* Showdown: Scorpion
* Silverfall
* Sovereign Symphony
* Sonic and the Black Knight
* Sonic and the Secret Rings
* Speedball 2
* Stoked
* Stoked Rider: Alaska Alien
* Switchball
* Trine
* The Hunt
* The Stalin Subway
* The Void
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
* Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
* Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
* Tortuga: Two Treasures
* Turok
* Two Worlds
* Ultra Tubes
* Unreal Tournament 3
* Unreal Tournament 3: Extreme Physics Mod
* Valkyria Chronicles
* Velvet Assassin
* Warfare
* Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction
* W.E.L.L. Online
* Winterheart's Guild
* Wolverine Origins
* WorldShift
* Zombie Driver

[Final8ty]

List of games that support PhysX, a long and healthy list.

Most of those games are running on an engine that has Physx & accelerated Support but most of then don't use or implement accelerated Physx at all.

[Final8ty]

Originally Posted by Anandtech
We just got done talking with NVIDIA about the matter and they clarified the issue for us. In what we expect is going to be a disappointment for many of you, the lack of a PhysX restriction on the current 257.15 beta drivers is a bug, not a feature - the restriction should have been in those drivers and it was not. NVIDIA will be reinstating the restriction in the WHQL build of these drivers, and presumably all drivers thereafter.

Never mind.

[Humminn55]

List of games that support PhysX, a long and healthy list.

*SNIP a long pointless list*

So, tell me Helix, how many of those games have you purchased?

[Final8ty]

bwahahaha.

Still waiting to hear back from nvidia users who were defending the previous restrictions - "they can't allow ati cards to work as well, they'll have a qc nightmare and it'll cause all sorts of bugs!". Oh, how the worm has turned.

EDITED: because im getting tired of seeing that word & its simply not need.
+1.