• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

Hack Released to Enable PhysX on Windows 7 with ATI GPU Present

Joined
Mar 11, 2009
Messages
865 (0.16/day)
Location
Dawn
I see the visual difference, but performance i see barely any. But i guess that's whole point of PhysX anyway.
Pretty much, if physx is intrisic to the engine, so far people have kept the hardware requirements low so you can run it on your cpu without it being overloaded, like the unreal engine. But yeah, that's pretty much added effects. I have to admit I liked it when I played mirror's edge...I played it with physx disabled and it's sort of a mediocre title without it. But that's my feeling about it.
 
Joined
Jul 17, 2009
Messages
921 (0.17/day)
Location
SouthERN Africa
System Name inferKNIGHT
Processor Intel Core i5-4590
Motherboard MSI Z97i Gaming AC
Cooling Corsair H100i
Memory 2 x 4GB DDR3-1866 Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer (R/G)
Video Card(s) ASUS GTX 970 STRIX 3.5GB (+0.5GB? o.O)
Storage 1 x 256GB Cricial M550, 1 x 2TB Samsung 7200.12
Display(s) Samsung SyncMaster T260
Case Corsair Obsidian 250D
Power Supply Corsair RM750
Software Windows 8.1.1 pro x64
OpenCL is open. OpenGL is open. Nothing with DirectX in its name is open. ATI has a closer relationship with Microsoft on the DirectX matters. And nVidia happens to have a history of providing great OpenGL support.
What the frak is wrong with people's memories these days?
you're right in that DX isn't open, but even though nV gave better OpenGL support, the standard is dogged by indecision because of an excessive number of parties wanting their way. DX is just there because it overthrew OpenGL due to the indecision problems I mentioned, so it's unavoidable as long as Windows is the gaming platform.
Now OpenCL is better because it's not being weighed down by too bureaucracy and is open. It can "win", lol.
 
Joined
Mar 28, 2007
Messages
2,490 (0.40/day)
Location
Your house.
System Name Jupiter-2
Processor Intel i3-6100
Motherboard H170I-PLUS D3
Cooling Stock
Memory 8GB Mushkin DDR3L-1600
Video Card(s) EVGA GTX 1050ti
Storage 512GB Corsair SSD
Display(s) BENQ 24in
Case Lian Li PC-Q01B Mini ITX
Audio Device(s) Onboard
Power Supply Corsair 450W
Mouse Logitech Trackball
Keyboard Custom bamboo job
Software Win 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores Finished Super PI on legendary mode in only 13 hours.
Why the hell would they want to open source their code? I sure as hell wouldn't. I'd make it free to use maybe, but not give away the source. That's asking too much.

Why the hell would they want to? If you have to ask, you'll never know. :shadedshu
 

TheMailMan78

Big Member
Joined
Jun 3, 2007
Messages
22,599 (3.68/day)
Location
'Merica. The Great SOUTH!
System Name TheMailbox 5.0 / The Mailbox 4.5
Processor RYZEN 1700X / Intel i7 2600k @ 4.2GHz
Motherboard Fatal1ty X370 Gaming K4 / Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH Intel LGA 1155
Cooling MasterLiquid PRO 280 / Scythe Katana 4
Memory ADATA RGB 16GB DDR4 2666 16-16-16-39 / G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB DDR3 1866: 9-9-9-24
Video Card(s) MSI 1080 "Duke" with 8Gb of RAM. Boost Clock 1847 MHz / ASUS 780ti
Storage 256Gb M4 SSD / 128Gb Agelity 4 SSD , 500Gb WD (7200)
Display(s) LG 29" Class 21:9 UltraWide® IPS LED Monitor 2560 x 1080 / Dell 27"
Case Cooler Master MASTERBOX 5t / Cooler Master 922 HAF
Audio Device(s) Realtek ALC1220 Audio Codec / SupremeFX X-Fi with Bose Companion 2 speakers.
Power Supply Seasonic FOCUS Plus Series SSR-750PX 750W Platinum / SeaSonic X Series X650 Gold
Mouse SteelSeries Sensei (RAW) / Logitech G5
Keyboard Razer BlackWidow / Logitech (Unknown)
Software Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
Benchmark Scores Benching is for bitches.
Why the hell would they want to? If you have to ask, you'll never know. :shadedshu

Please don't start with your commie crap man.
 

Wile E

Power User
Joined
Oct 1, 2006
Messages
24,318 (3.81/day)
System Name The ClusterF**k
Processor 980X @ 4Ghz
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 BIOS F12
Cooling MCR-320, DDC-1 pump w/Bitspower res top (1/2" fittings), Koolance CPU-360
Memory 3x2GB Mushkin Redlines 1600Mhz 6-8-6-24 1T
Video Card(s) Evga GTX 580
Storage Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB, 2xSeagate 320GB RAID0; 2xSeagate 3TB; 2xSamsung 2TB; Samsung 1.5TB
Display(s) HP LP2475w 24" 1920x1200 IPS
Case Technofront Bench Station
Audio Device(s) Auzentech X-Fi Forte into Onkyo SR606 and Polk TSi200's + RM6750
Power Supply ENERMAX Galaxy EVO EGX1250EWT 1250W
Software Win7 Ultimate N x64, OSX 10.8.4
Why the hell would they want to? If you have to ask, you'll never know. :shadedshu

There is absolutely no good reason for them to open source it. It's more profitable for them not to. And lets face it, business is about making a profit. Not to mention, there's less headaches when certain people want to create a branch, so you have a million different forks and incompatible versions, or the community takes so long to decide on a uniform change that progress moves at a snail's pace, and some other standard overtakes it, ala OpenGL.

Nope, open source is entirely too overrated in many situations. Closed but free to use is perfectly fine if it gets the job done.
 

Woody112

New Member
Joined
Jan 18, 2008
Messages
562 (0.09/day)
Location
Florida
System Name Woody's MBP
Processor 2.4 C2D
Cooling Frikin Air
Memory Munskin 2x2 gig 1066mhz
Video Card(s) 9400gt/9600gt W/512mb
Storage 1TB WD scorpio blue
Display(s) 15.4" on lapie/ 24" Acer P241w on the wall/ 52" LCD TV
Software OSX/ Win 7
There is absolutely no good reason for them to open source it. It's more profitable for them not to. And lets face it, business is about making a profit. Not to mention, there's less headaches when certain people want to create a branch, so you have a million different forks and incompatible versions, or the community takes so long to decide on a uniform change that progress moves at a snail's pace, and some other standard overtakes it, ala OpenGL.

Nope, open source is entirely too overrated in many situations. Closed but free to use is perfectly fine if it gets the job done.

I agree with you on this about 90% Technology is past the the idea of mainstreaming a new breakthrough that would generate a profit. But it's crap like this that stifles the development of those who are trying to make a new break through. I don't really know how to put what I'm thinking down right now but simply I'm saying that if a company is going to bogart a technology that could further advance, well technology then their should be laws in place to that give them full rights to it but also give others access to it without having to pay huge sums of royalties to use the code, hardware or software. It's this kind of crap that slows down the advancement of everything and then the world is stuck for years trying to do a work around to it so that it can become mainstream. It's just that every time a company does this sort of thing over greed aka "large profit". It hinders the advancement of developing the next great thing and so on. So what we could have achieved in 5 years now takes us 20 years. The way this system is set up in all honesty need to be looked at. Hope this made some kind of since, I'm a little drunk right now, just got back from a the pirate festival in Savannah GA. Ha ha good time.
 

Wile E

Power User
Joined
Oct 1, 2006
Messages
24,318 (3.81/day)
System Name The ClusterF**k
Processor 980X @ 4Ghz
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 BIOS F12
Cooling MCR-320, DDC-1 pump w/Bitspower res top (1/2" fittings), Koolance CPU-360
Memory 3x2GB Mushkin Redlines 1600Mhz 6-8-6-24 1T
Video Card(s) Evga GTX 580
Storage Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB, 2xSeagate 320GB RAID0; 2xSeagate 3TB; 2xSamsung 2TB; Samsung 1.5TB
Display(s) HP LP2475w 24" 1920x1200 IPS
Case Technofront Bench Station
Audio Device(s) Auzentech X-Fi Forte into Onkyo SR606 and Polk TSi200's + RM6750
Power Supply ENERMAX Galaxy EVO EGX1250EWT 1250W
Software Win7 Ultimate N x64, OSX 10.8.4
I agree with you on this about 90% Technology is past the the idea of mainstreaming a new breakthrough that would generate a profit. But it's crap like this that stifles the development of those who are trying to make a new break through. I don't really know how to put what I'm thinking down right now but simply I'm saying that if a company is going to bogart a technology that could further advance, well technology then their should be laws in place to that give them full rights to it but also give others access to it without having to pay huge sums of royalties to use the code, hardware or software. It's this kind of crap that slows down the advancement of everything and then the world is stuck for years trying to do a work around to it so that it can become mainstream. It's just that every time a company does this sort of thing over greed aka "large profit". It hinders the advancement of developing the next great thing and so on. So what we could have achieved in 5 years now takes us 20 years. The way this system is set up in all honesty need to be looked at. Hope this made some kind of since, I'm a little drunk right now, just got back from a the pirate festival in Savannah GA. Ha ha good time.
Oh, I agree with you. I was speaking in very general terms. What nV is doing in this particular case is total bullshit. I just don't think that open sourcing the code is the answer.
 

Woody112

New Member
Joined
Jan 18, 2008
Messages
562 (0.09/day)
Location
Florida
System Name Woody's MBP
Processor 2.4 C2D
Cooling Frikin Air
Memory Munskin 2x2 gig 1066mhz
Video Card(s) 9400gt/9600gt W/512mb
Storage 1TB WD scorpio blue
Display(s) 15.4" on lapie/ 24" Acer P241w on the wall/ 52" LCD TV
Software OSX/ Win 7
Oh, I agree with you. I was speaking in very general terms. What nV is doing in this particular case is total bullshit. I just don't think that open sourcing the code is the answer.

AH I got ya now, Ya I agree with ya to a T when it come to open soursing. Open sourcing is definitely not the answer. But the source should be reasonably available by some avenue at least. Like you said in general terms. Were on the same page, wasn't sure I fully understood were you were trying to come from on that post is all:toast:
 
Joined
Jul 17, 2009
Messages
921 (0.17/day)
Location
SouthERN Africa
System Name inferKNIGHT
Processor Intel Core i5-4590
Motherboard MSI Z97i Gaming AC
Cooling Corsair H100i
Memory 2 x 4GB DDR3-1866 Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer (R/G)
Video Card(s) ASUS GTX 970 STRIX 3.5GB (+0.5GB? o.O)
Storage 1 x 256GB Cricial M550, 1 x 2TB Samsung 7200.12
Display(s) Samsung SyncMaster T260
Case Corsair Obsidian 250D
Power Supply Corsair RM750
Software Windows 8.1.1 pro x64
Maybe if they found a way to open-source it without giving up rights? Maybe to create a sort of agreement where anyone can work on the source, but it can only be implemented if the owner of the rights agrees to the change?
I think that would be somewhat more appropriate (just a suggestion though).
 
Joined
Apr 21, 2008
Messages
5,250 (0.90/day)
Location
IRAQ-Baghdad
System Name MASTER
Processor Core i7 3930k run at 4.4ghz
Motherboard Asus Rampage IV extreme
Cooling Corsair H100i
Memory 4x4G kingston hyperx beast 2400mhz
Video Card(s) 2X EVGA GTX680
Storage 2X Crusial M4 256g raid0, 1TbWD g, 2x500 WD B
Display(s) Samsung 27' 1080P LED 3D monitior 2ms
Case CoolerMaster Chosmos II
Audio Device(s) Creative sound blaster X-FI Titanum champion,Creative speakers 7.1 T7900
Power Supply Corsair 1200i, Logitch G500 Mouse, headset Corsair vengeance 1500
Software Win7 64bit Ultimate
Benchmark Scores 3d mark 2011: testing
i need havok physics not this
 

Wrigleyvillain

PTFO or GTFO
Joined
Oct 13, 2007
Messages
7,702 (1.28/day)
Location
Chicago
System Name DarkStar
Processor i5 3570K 4.4Ghz
Motherboard Asrock Z77 Extreme 3
Cooling Apogee HD White/XSPC Razer blocks
Memory 8GB Samsung Green 1600
Video Card(s) 2 x GTX 670 4GB
Storage 2 x 120GB Samsung 830
Display(s) 27" QNIX
Case Enthoo Pro
Power Supply Seasonic Platinum 760
Mouse Steelseries Sensei
Keyboard Ducky Pro MX Black
Software Windows 8.1 x64
So what's the latest with this? Any personal experiences?
 
Joined
Jun 17, 2007
Messages
7,335 (1.20/day)
Location
C:\Program Files (x86)\Aphexdreamer\
System Name Unknown
Processor AMD Bulldozer FX8320 @ 4.4Ghz
Motherboard Asus Crosshair V
Cooling XSPC Raystorm 750 EX240 for CPU
Memory 8 GB CORSAIR Vengeance Red DDR3 RAM 1922mhz (10-11-9-27)
Video Card(s) XFX R9 290
Storage Samsung SSD 254GB and Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s
Display(s) AOC 23" @ 1920x1080 + Asus 27" 1440p
Case HAF X
Audio Device(s) X Fi Titanium 5.1 Surround Sound
Power Supply 750 Watt PP&C Silencer Black
Software Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
Don't mean to intrude but what ever happend to Physx on ATI cards? Was it a fake after all...
 
Top