PhysX
October 3rd, 2009 by admin
30 September, AMD announced the start of development of Open Physics Initiative, a technology that will rival nVidia PhysX.
AMD partners in this boon to become the company Pixelux Entertainment - the developer “physical system» Digital Molecular Matter (DMM), which was first used in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed from LucasArts. Problem Pixelux will be to integrate its technology with the Bullet - a free open physics engine.
Currently Bullet - the third most popular after the Havok physics engine and the PhysX. Nevertheless, AMD and Pixelux may well turn out to make it more widespread.
By the way, recently revealed that drivers for video cards company nVidia, from 186.18, off the possibility of using cards GeForce 8xxx, 9xxx or 2xx as a single physical processor, if your system has GPU, not released nVidia.
Actually, the new drivers do not allow the use of some old and a simple and cheap for GeForce PhysX, if the primary graphics card - Radeon. This is another reason to “scratch” and change the balance of forces. With AMD and trying to do.
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