NVIDIA PhysX Previews

NVIDIA plans on launching patches on August 12 to enable its GeForce 8-series
and later graphics cards to run PhysX physics modeling on the GPU. Presumably an
NDA about this expired today, as there are new previews of this new
PhysX support on several sites, offering background, hands-on impressions, and
benchmarks. You can find these previews on

Custom PC,

Elite Bastards,

HotHardware, and The Tech
Report. Here's a summary of the situation from the latter preview:On
August 12, Nvidia will release new graphics drivers that will allow owners of
most GeForce 8, GeForce 9, and GeForce GTX 200-series cards to use PhysX
acceleration without spending a dime. Along with the drivers will come a
downloadable PhysX software pack containing free Unreal Tournament 3 maps, the
full version of NetDevil's Warmonger, a couple of Nvidia demos, and sneak peeks
at Object Software's Metal Knight Zero and Nurien Software's Nurien
social-networking service. Nvidia provided us with early access to the pack, and
we've been testing it over the past couple of days.


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