Comments on: Hardware PhysX Acceleration is Disabled (GeForce or Ageia) when ATI GPU is Present

By: Geeks3D – 2009 Retrospective | The Geeks Of 3D - 3D Tech News

Geeks3D – 2009 Retrospective | The Geeks Of 3D - 3D Tech News — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:03:37 +0000

[...] Hardware PhysX Acceleration is Disabled (GeForce or Ageia) when ATI GPU is Present [...]

By: jim

jim — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:33:35 +0000

idiots this thing disables physx in nvidia ion too,stupit nvidia i should go with ati.

By: angryman!!!!

angryman!!!! — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:33:31 +0000

well i bought a physx card and had a geforce 6600 gts.. now i own a sapphire hd4890 vapor x(highly recommended..great card-cool running and no jet engine cooler like the nvidia gtx275 and 285!).. they should still allow the physx hardware card to work with any gpu card, after all every bought one before nvidia bought them out.. we all know why theyve done it but dont have the balls to say it!.. the physx card should always have its own driver.. nvidia are the facists of the gpu market!!! lol

By: A Patch to Re-Enable Hardware PhysX When ATI Card is Present | The Geeks Of 3D - 3D Tech News

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:43:05 +0000

[...] this news, we learnt that hardware PhysX is disabled (GeForce GPU and Ageia PPU) when a Radeon is used as [...]

By: WacKEDmaN

WacKEDmaN — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:05:27 +0000

I demand a refund from nvidia…i purchaced a geforce9 just for physx..now they pull support and im left with a card i cant use..

if nvidia dont do a backflip on this soon…they will never see any $$ from me or my customers ever again

By: david

david — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:55:39 +0000

didn’t you guys read the email from tech support at nvidia? they admitted they were no longer supporting physX with ati. How hard can it be to understand?

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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:30:11 +0000

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By: ATI + PhysX ban: even Ageia PPUs are affected ? | PhysXInfo.com - PhysX News

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:20:19 +0000

[...] Geeks3D report on that recent driver update disables PhysX hardware acceleration not only for Nvidia GPUs, but for [...]

By: jadfa

jadfa — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:59:02 +0000

Perhaps such a hack could be use to enable PhysX with ATI card as a main adapter?
(yes, in fact my HD4870 is a GTS260

By: JeGX

JeGX — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:28:12 +0000

Okay Zogrim, I send you an email right now…

By: Zogrim

Zogrim — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:51:34 +0000

JeGX, I think it’s not comments, but e-mail talk. I’ll try to gather some volunteers with different configurations, to do some extensive testing.

If it’s all true even I at PhysXInfo won’t stand aside, but it need more investigation.

By: JeGX

JeGX — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:35:40 +0000

Cool

As soon as I shutdown my dev station (currently with a GeForce GTS 250), I’ll plug the Ageia card inside.

By: Zogrim

Zogrim — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:31:14 +0000

Hmm.. that’s strange.

Sure, I’ll check it, but little later, as I’ll need to free some slots to install my old PPU)

By: JeGX

JeGX — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:24:40 +0000

Yes Sir, I’ve done all steps. I even installed directly the version 9.09.0814 without a prior install of 8.09.04. And in that case, Ageai PhysX card is not detected and it’s correct according to NVIDIA release notes. But when I first install 8.09.04 and just after I install 9.09.0814, Ageia PhysX card is properly detected. So with 8.09.04 + 9.09.0814, hardware acceleration should be enabled for Ageia card.

Zogrim, if you have an Ageia card (with a GeForce for graphics) , could you please check if the Ageia card is supported with 8.09.04 + 9.09.0814?

By: Zogrim

Zogrim — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:09:55 +0000

“It’s not said that new version doesn’t support PhysX PPU”
PhysX System Software cointains several components – PhysX SDK libraries (all that 2.3.x-2.8.x folders), GPU PhysX CUDA layer, and – Ageia PPU firmware, that is ommited from PhysX drivers older than 8.09.04. So you need to install those 8.09.04 drivers prior everything else to get your PPU recognised as a device.

Have you done all this steps correctly while testing ? I haven’t system with ATI card in my sight, so I can’t check it too.

By: JeGX

JeGX — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:39:28 +0000

Maybe there is something I missed but in PhysX systems oftware @ NVIDIA it's written: "Runtime upgrade ONLY for AGEIA PhysX processors users. (New AGEIA PhysX processors installations should install older PhysX system software such as version 8.09.04 – prior to installing this update). Note – AGEIA PPU acceleration support for 2.8.1 SDK or earlier, and Windows Vista and Windows XP only." What I understand is you have to install firstly driver 8.09.04 and after you can install a new version like 9.09.0814 to have an upgrade for Ageia PhysX PPU. It's not said that new version doesn't support PhysX PPU...

By: Zogrim

Zogrim — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:28:34 +0000

“From this test, Ageia PhysX card is not supported anymore from 9.09.0814.”
Ageia is supported only on 8.09.04 and earlier. You must install older drivers over 8.09.04 (without uninstall) to get it working. It’s said in every single PhysX driver release notes since then.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:49:25 +0000

more comments at:

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/9/28/nvidias-physx-shortsightedness-angers-developers.aspx

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,696106/No-Nvidia-Physx-available-with-Radeon-cards/News/

By: FormerNvidiaCustomer

FormerNvidiaCustomer — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:29:39 +0000

Lifelong customer of Nvidia but now I’m fed up with their shi*. Going to buy ATI for my next card and don’t care if I get physx or not. Bye bye nvidia, and good luck with your failed business tactics and hope you enjoy the community backlash.

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Nvidia disables PhysX when ATI card is present - Page 19 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:53:38 +0000

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