Quote Originally Posted by mapel110 View Post
These effects will only be available on nvidia-hardware. So they don't use DC or OpenCL.
I don't think that's possible. Unless the developer is using PhysX (which needs to be used in conjunction with another API to accurately model hair, water, etc.), there isn't anything out there other than DC and OpenCL right now that can use the GPU for this type of acceleration. If it is a proprietary engine that can do this we're talking some major $$$$$ invested on the part of the developer.

In order to accurately add water to a scene you need tessellation and selective geometry shading on the rendering side, DirectCompute for animation and physics if the water is interacting with anything. Unless the developer found away using DirectCompute for the animations, I can't see how this would be "exclusive to NVIDIA". Basically, they may use this to show off the GF100's power in DC or something along those lines.