Re: Ageia Physics Accelerator & Sims?

"Todd Wasson" <todd_wasson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1146652730.741376.226930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Alienware is shipping their newest PC's with the PhysX chip now.

http://www.alienware.com/intro_pages/ageia_physx.aspx

http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Area-51_7500/area-51_7500
_features.aspx?SysCode=PC-AREA51-7500-R2&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT

http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Aurora_7500/aurora_7500_f
eatures.aspx?SysCode=PC-AURORA-7500-R2&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT

http://www.alienware.com/ALX_pages/choose_alx.aspx

What I've been told is that the Novodex engine (used for the chip)
isn't particularly suited to high accuracy simulation stuff and may
not be good for serious car sims. It's fantastic for other stuff
though and the fluid dynamics stuff is very impressive indeed.




My thought would be possibly the enviroment could be assisted. Instead
of having ROCK SOLID tirewalls or haybales, we could have deformable
objects. Anything that could take some of the load off the cpu.
However, my biggest worry about this technology now is the state of this
hardware's development. Is this a matue product that will make leaps and
bounds improvements in gameplay? Or is this the equivalent of the S3
Virge, a 3d card so weak it really wasn't even a 3d accelerator.

and now to Rex's thoughts:
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It's nice technology but nobody is going to buy one. Yea they could
bundle it on other hardware but why bother? After this first wave no
software company is going to risk investing in this. And how would it
affect multiplayer? It's not a big deal if someone has different
graphics than another player, but what if they had different physics?

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In a way we have already had that situation for years. I had a 386sx,
My buddy had a 486. He had better 'physics' because his system could
respond better to his input than mine. (in games like doom, I could sneak
up behind him, start shooting, and he could turn and then begin shooting
and quickly fire more shots that I could even with a head start.

I'm sure when the first 3dfx card was displayed with what? the $200
price tag, NOBODY thought ANYONE would spend that much money for just a few
more colored objects on a screen.

Thanks guys for the input

dh
.

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