5800 series and Agiea Physx card.....

[20mmrain]

One of the main things I liked about my old GTX 285 was the fact I could use Physx for Benchmarking. On my new 5870 I miss that. I haven't been following the Physx discussion for quiet awhile. But I think I heard some were that ATI is not a loud to use physx on their cards anymore. Now with that being said does that even include a dedicated Physx card? I'm not talking about an old 8600GT or a 9800GT I'm talking about the old by them selves Physx cards?
Does it work.
I hope this topic hasn't been covered already but if it has I do apologize because I'm still really new to the hole ATI and Nvidia Physx debate.

[Binge]

There is no debate. If you want physX with ATI as your main GPU then you have to hack your drivers.

[wolf]

I run exactly that, a 5870 and a 9800GT for physx, its a really simple little hack hey.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=105329

its in there follow the link, and you don't even need to do a fresh driver install like the readme says, i ran the file, rebooted and voila.

[20mmrain]

I run exactly that, a 5870 and a 9800GT for physx, its a really simple little hack hey.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=105329

its in there follow the link, and you don't even need to do a fresh driver install like the readme says, i ran the file, rebooted and voila.

Awesome! Thanks for the info!

[newfellow]

Simply but pain in the ass for monitor setup + not functioning on vista which is just generally sad. Still looking for low power solution here to do this if even needed. Looks to me that PhysX might just live another day looking how slow the OpenCL development is nothing compared to NVIDIA PhysX blast to internet some while ago. Just makes me think (which is bad anyway).

[20mmrain]

Yes OpenCL needs to come along a lot faster! Unfortunately It looks like ATI isn't pursuing it as much as I hoped for and neither are the software developers.

[newfellow]

It'll come up really damn fast when Adobe & general graphic communities on market starts to understand it's potential, but the sad news is no 3rd party developers aren't exactly even trying it as I checked some sources. Would hope AviDemux, ffdshow & whole encoding style software would take this as open handed hell it's basically standard C code almost, but sad news is it'll be most likely used to speed up OS which is primary mother of all mistakes to improve root with resources meant to perform in usage.

Would be of course different, if it would be made as an automated resources, but this again would only lose resources for something where they are not needed to (where I might add that this would be extremely good way to make once again more and more money to them by selling new hardware in shadow of 'we now finally are using your old hardware now you need new hardware to get even old shit working again').