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Need Help Running 2nd GPU as PhysX

Physx is dead, Quadro and 1080Ti are diffrent family of cards, different drivers required.

Just pull the quadro out
So I can't do it if they are two different card families?
 
So I can't do it if they are two different card families?
Yes. That is the answer, no matter how much you want it to be otherwise.

1. You can only have one nvidia driver present
2. Your cards require two different drivers
3. You can't use them at the same time.

If you just REALLY want to use a dedicated physx card, you're going to have to buy a newer card to use with your 1080Ti.
 
Yes. That is the answer, no matter how much you want it to be otherwise.

1. You can only have one nvidia driver present
2. Your cards require two different drivers
3. You can't use them at the same time.

If you just REALLY want to use a dedicated physx card, you're going to have to buy a newer card to use with your 1080Ti.

If he can find a Cheap 970/Ti, 780/Ti or 770Ti, or a very Cheap 1060/ti it might work...
 
Yes. That is the answer, no matter how much you want it to be otherwise.

1. You can only have one nvidia driver present
2. Your cards require two different drivers
3. You can't use them at the same time.

If you just REALLY want to use a dedicated physx card, you're going to have to buy a newer card to use with your 1080Ti.
And can it not run with just Windows basic drivers?
 
And can it not run with just Windows basic drivers?

The answer is NO,

You need nvidia drivers to run physx, not microsoft drivers.

Get one of the other cards suggested. Even a 670TI or 680, 680TI would suffice.
 
The answer is NO,

You need nvidia drivers to run physx, not microsoft drivers.

Get one of the other cards suggested. Even a 670TI or 680, 680TI would suffice.
And those cost a lot so I guess there is nothing else than can be done here.
 
A gts 240 would be plenty for physx, that's how little gpu power it requires on modern gpu's, hence you can run physx on your main gpu with no performance hit, no one runs a dedicated physx card for the last 10 years
 
And those cost a lot so I guess there is nothing else than can be done here.

I gave you a slew of cards that would work, sell the quadro, save some money if you want to run physx or abandon it, Nvidia Certainly Did along with SLY too.
 
I believe there is an option for the cpu to run PhysX as well..... or at least there was at one point.
 
Aside from all the pointlessness in getting hardware physx working...

OP, did you even try exact driver I mentioned?
 
No... don't run a gaming card and workstation card in the same box unless using each card for separate tasks and that's a task getting it set up.

If you have a spare GFX card laying around, you should use it ... any suggestion that you won't benefit is without basis in fact. Any GTX card can do PhysX but it carries a performance penalty on the GPU or if assigned to the CPU ... not unloading that task to a GPU that would otherwise be sitting on a shelf is counter productive.

As for only supports old games ? ... old as in Witcher 3, Fallout 4, any Batman, Assassins Creed IV, CoD Ghosts, Metro LL, etc ?

I compare it to going to a car dealership and the dealer offers you the same model with free air conditioning for the same price and you saying no thanks cause you will only use it maybe 45 days in a year. Sure ya won't use it most days ... but when ya stuck in traffic and it's 95F out, are you going to leave it off.

When I do new builds for folks they usually leave behind much of their old hardware ... I always save their old card or pull one off the shelf and install it, set up as a PhysX card. When user picks up box, I will usually run W3, metro or something with PhysX and PhysX off .... no one ever takes it out. Its a very simple thing provided you have two GTX cards. Now if ya asking if I would recommend going out and buying a Phyx card for $100, I'd say no. But not using one that's sitting on a shelf or if ya can grab it for $20, is a worthwhile effort... IIRC, the last one like that the GPU usage on the PhyX card was 8 - 12%. To my eyes, taking that load oiff ya CPU or GPU is worthwhile.
 
Physx the list of supported gpu's. The ones list with an M after the number GTX1070M are mobile/laptop gpu's. The list of supported games and other info can be found there too.
 
I thought someone necroed a thread from 2006 when I read the title, why on earth would anyone want to run a dedicated physx gpu in this day and age???

It's like a time warp. Remember when ppl were hacking drivers to run physx on AMD? The good ole days.
 
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