Originally Posted by
maxxxxel
PhysX on ATI marchitecture
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A MAD POSTER on the NGOHQ forums who goes by the name of Regeneration, claims to have hacked Nvidia’s Physx driver to bits and got it running on ATI hardware. Will the madness never end?
The post shows a screen grab of CPU-Z, the Ageia driver settings and 3D Mark Vantage with a score of 22606 CPU marks… something only attainable through Nvidia’s use of the PhysX driver within Vantage. Regeneration promises a vid of the card performing at the enhanced performance, soon.
If this did happen, Nvidia would be mightily miffed as the money it threw into acquiring Ageia would be for naught and so would its whole PhysX and CUDA marketing strategy.
Legal eagles are likely to swoop down on whoever is attempting such a deed without ponying-up a license, and legally bash him/her into submission. ATI is highly unlikely to buy into a PhysX deal, even if it is proven possible, as the company already has its own Havok-based (yes, Intel) strategy in high gear.
The question, come to think of it, is: are we actually losing anything in not having PhysX on ATI cards, considering the number of titles that support it?
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