Nvidia GPU required for PhysX in Win 7

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Since Nvidia appears to be making desperate moves to open up CUDA to other manufacturers cards and prevent it from going the way of 3DFX Glide and A3D it would be quite ironic if PhysX ended up being run on ATI hardware.

I'm pretty pissed because I have an 8800GT specifically for CUDA/PhysX, but I'm done with Mirror's Edge and I don't play UT3 much anymore so I might as well just swap it for another 4850.

Nvidia is dumb! With PhysX slowly getting semi-popular (or at least used) they could sell some of their older cards to people who want physics in their systems. So they will loose potential customers over this. Hope that will make them think a little bit more the next time.

An interesting suggestion, the existence of the 8800GS/9600GSO suggest that they had loads of excess G92s and putting a new BIOS on the things and flogging them as cheap consumer Telsa cards for ATI/integrated gfx users wanting CUDA and/or PhysX would have been an interesting move.