Beating a dead horse - physX

[centurion_08]

After all years i would like to know what is your take on the physX feature.

Do you take it into consideration when buying a new video card?

Is it to lackluster or poorly used in video games?

Why people buy an amd gpu over nvidia.

Does the extra eye candy is not so important for some people?

What is your idea for physX in-game usage.

 

Thinking about the next milestone for my rig. Switching from 770 got 980Ti. But dat price.

[kipper]

I consider PhysX epic, but could you grab me a 980Ti so i could play with the feature on please?

[dougdangger]

It's icing on the cake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCnfWneTsMY

[Unlikelyjoker]

PhysX is pretty cool but if you list more than 4 good games that really use PhysX ill buy another Nvidia card.....

Looks like AMD it is.

 

 

 

/s

[DildorTheDecent]

It's icing on the cake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCnfWneTsMY

That's the worst example ever. 

 

Borderlands 2 is much better

[Jamdude]

I've never really been interested in PhysX because I've always had an AMD card, now I'm going to the Green Team I'm pretty excited about it.

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

PhysX is cool... but I'll be honest and say it's lame that it's only GPU accelerated on NVIDIA GPUs. Yes, I do own NVIDIA GPUs but it would only be fair if it worked equally on AMD or heck, even Intel... well, Intel Iris Pro is still leagues behind everyone else but... y'know, equality and stuff.

PhysX in Planetside 2 is orgasmic good but it definitely wrecks the framerate lol... which is too bad and Daybreak ended up removing it from Planetside 2 until they can fix that sigh...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/2mzfpu/is_physx_ever_coming_back/

My favorite physics engine use for players is still Euphoria Character Physics engine as demonstrated in GTA IV, Max Payne 3 and GTA V. It just feels so good and definitely reacts the most realistic!

Havok Physics is the most versatile though as it can use both Direct Compute and OpenCL to compute the physics via the GPU for Intel, AMD and NVIDIA so it definitely gets points for that... but nowadays I'm confused by Havok tbh as it constantly talks about being multi-threaded... does that mean it has become CPU bound? Or am I missing something?

[GlassBomb]

I don't really care much about PhysX. I see it more as a gimmicky feature. Sure, you can say that it makes the player more immersed into the game, but there aren't many games that are developed with it in mind these days.

 

And I find it distracting :c

[Acquire]

I think it's great. Looks awesome and makes the game world more fun.

[dougdangger]

I don't really care much about PhysX. I see it more as a gimmicky feature. Sure, you can say that it makes the player more immersed into the game, but there aren't many games that are developed with it in mind these days.

 

And I find it distracting :c

Immersion into a game is the ultimate goal of game developers.

It's a feature that doesn't cost gamers extra on hardware or software.

Gamers can turn it on or off.  I don't see any down side to it.

[GlassBomb]

Immersion into a game is the ultimate goal of game developers.

It's a feature that doesn't cost gamers extra on hardware or software.

Gamers can turn it on or off.  I don't see any down side to it.

 

I should say it wants to make you more immersed into the game.

 

I find it distracting :c

 

And you say that it's free. But really, it's not. It costs developers a large amount of money to implement features that not everyone can use, or will use.

[AdamH96]

I love RT particle physics, always fun to watch and interact with. I also let my 660 do the work so it really doesn't cost my frame rate much...

[dougdangger]

And you say that it's free. But really, it's not. It costs developers a large amount of money to implement features that not everyone can use, or will use.

I could care less what it costs the developers.  As it currently is, it's a bonus and doesn't cost me a dime.  It's the beauty of PC gaming.  So much flexibility.

If it bothers you, you can always join the console peasants who enjoy uniformity.

[Nena Trinity]

PhysX works with any card but if you go for AMD you should keep it off or get a better CPU!

 

i5 or i7. Or FX if you are willing to wait for DirectX12 games!

[GlassBomb]

I could care less what it costs the developers.  As it currently is, it's a bonus and doesn't cost me a dime. 

 

But that's the thing... They sometimes work under strict budget and time constrains. And it may not directly cost your wallet any extra for you to buy. But you that doesn't mean that you don't pay for it. One way or another, you do.

 

It might mean that you get different abilities, NPC's, voice-overs, and stuff like that.

[dougdangger]

But that's the thing... They sometimes work under strict budget and time constrains. And it may not directly cost your wallet any extra for you to buy. But you that doesn't mean that you don't pay for it. One way or another, you do.

 

It might mean that you get different abilities, NPC's, voice-overs, and stuff like that.

The cost for adding physx is insignificant to the developers as to why they're not charging for it.  No business operates at a loss and lives on.

Considering I paid about $4.99 for Borderlands 2 from Steam, I can say that I didn't feel the impact of the "extra" cost of physx.

[xAcid9]

Great features, bad implementation and segmentation.

[Prysin]

while PhysX had merit in the past, when CPUs were weaker, i find it to be a gimmicky feature. My old computer featured Nvidia graphics, at to be honest, i saw little, if no benefit from PhysX even in games that had it.

PhysX is also somewhat, not really good? Compared to say Havoc Physics, which are mostly software, thus CPU based for the most part. It sort of falls short in terms of actual visual execution and fidelity. Some may like it, but its sort of similar to Hairworks. While it had merits, i find it slightly lacking VS say tressFX, and even more so compared to some skyrim mods that run purely off the Havoc engine.

Nvidia simply didnt push hard enough, perhaps if they opened it up and tried to make it an industry standard for handling physics. However that would mean giving the processing unit to AMD through some sort of buisniss deal, which they never would. Nvidia is too proud and stubborn to do so. In the meantime, i do not think anyone can really say, with their hand on their chest, that PhysX made such a difference to the game it was featured in, that the game could simply not be played without.

[kipper]

Funny thing... none of my favorite games have ever had any PhysX effects, shows how important PhysX is...

 

I mean... PhysX is not in Fallout 3...

 

 

It's not in Shenmue...

 

 

 

It's not in Resident Evil...

 

The list would fill up this entire site.