Nvidia Acquires Ageia

[Luke]

thats good. im sure developers will make more use of the technology if they incorporate it with gpu's. im gona be geting a physics card for my new system

 

[Wildside]

Newer games will start to support more physics. The new star wars game is suppose to have some dynamic physics.

3 differ physics engines actually. Havok, Euphoria, n DIMMEN or something like that. The "DIMMEN", i forget name, means when objects have a molecule substance to direct contact. Basically, if ur main char uses the force on metal, u will see it bend like metal, wood break like wood should break, glass breaking into pieces like glass would in real life, etc.

i hope the Wii version is good, or im gonna wait to see a port to the PC.

 

[DawnOfDoom]

oooh Havok physics engine....yum....

 

[veg1992]

Well, it was a good buy, but doesn't nVidia already implicate a Physics engine (I forget what its called Quantum Effects Technology or something) in their 8 series GPU's, and weren't they planning on doing that from the rest of the cards?

or is this just to make it like have a dedicated one in all their cards from here on in?

 

[DawnOfDoom]

By dedicated you mean integrated into the chip? or part of their software that optimizes whats already on the board?

PS: Congrats Vernong on your 10k posts

 

[veg1992]

By dedicated you mean integrated into the chip? or part of their software that optimizes whats already on the board?

PS: Congrats Vernong on your 10k posts

honestly I'm not sure, but thats all I know, I haven't used a good GPU in a while

 

[DawnOfDoom]

haha i see.....