Hybred Physx anyone tried it

Was looking around Ebay as I was replying to another thread and found some interestingly cheap graphics card for sale. Namely 8800GT and some brand new 8800GTS with only 320 meg ram but I digress


Well I got to thinking about Physx and if it would be of benefit to run run one with my 5870. Done my research and found that you need to run a hack on the Nvidia drivers as they do not support this ( would punch them for this as its hardly a fair business call) as well as the Physx drivers.

Ive got all the software and even seen a card im tempted on but wondered first if anyone here had actually tried it out and if it was worth it?

[damien c]

I have not tried it as I was and am now running a Nvidia card therefore I get physx anyway, but physx isn't imho anything special apart from a few things in games moving when shot etc, which i'm pretty sure it does that on your 5870 already or I might be mistaken.

Also IIRC the lead programmer for the physx who worked for Nvidia, has now moved to ATI, so I think the ATI cards will be getting Physx soon.

I would have a look on the Nvidia forums aswell as there maybe some help on there or on the ATI forum's.

there has been some good results and ive seen some decent benchmark improvements in the scores. Just wondered really if anyone had given it a go with the hacks as I dont want to spend money and find they are not efficient

[weesteev]

I have an 8800GTX as primary and an 8800GT as secondary, the perfomance gain in gaming is noticeable when you have the secondary card for Physx. When your not gaming then you can fold on the second card while not compromising any performance in other tasks. Also ideal if you want to encode 2 videos at once using something like badaboom!

Worth it, and cheap!

A mate of mine has a gts in his machine I may well lend him my 4870 I have spare ( with the intention of him liking it so much he buys it lol) and run a test on the gts

managed to get hold of a Geforce GT240 with 512 Meg GDDR5 for £64 delivered brand new. It will either work or not if its a not then I will sell it on at a later date

installed and tested using fluidmark. Most likely wasted my time and a few quid but I just wanted to see it for myself lol lol

[damien c]

I take it then it did not work as you thought it might?

To be honest give it 6 - 8 month's and they may have Physx on the ATI card's anyway, but for more info on what to expect try the ATI forum's mate they may have some answer's as to what you should get from doing this, and what to do if your not.

ive just tried it on Batman and it has made improvements so not a total waste. Least it gives me the option to enable it in hardware when the game allows and its not been to expensive

BTW you may well see me on the BFBC2 servers as CJS keys have come good and replaced my key with a proper one