They are dirt cheap and I never owned one. They seemed like they were only relevant for a short period of time. I was thinking of picking one up for the sake of it. Anyone have any opinions on if there there is a practical reason to own one?
practical? NO.
But for dick waving? YES.
I mean if you want to play one of the 3-4 games compatible on period hardware then it should be a blast.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Many times I was on the verge of buying one, but I have always stopped before doing it. I can't really justify to myself one as I know it would be pretty much useless for anything practical.
I/O, I/O,
It's off to disk I go,
With a bit and a byte
And a read and a write,
I/O, I/O
Really only useful for MOH: Airborne 😜
and the batmans WOW LOOK AT THOSE PAPERS FLY!!! THE RUG TUGGING YOUR LEG! The Way It's Meant To Be Played(tm)
wrote:and the batmans WOW LOOK AT THOSE PAPERS FLY!!! THE RUG TUGGING YOUR LEG! The Way It's Meant To Be Played(tm)
I think he is talking about the cards that were released before Nvidia bought PhysX.
I would say, not worth the money if you intended to use this card to play games on it.... Its only nice as a collectors item..
I know that maffia II also works with that card, crystosis as well and some other games... But the list of those games arent very big..
~ At least it can do black and white~
wrote:I would say, not worth the money if you intended to use this card to play games on it.... Its only nice as a collectors item..
I know that maffia II also works with that card, crystosis as well and some other games... But the list of those games arent very big..
Mafia II is Nvidia, not Ageia PhysX.
List of games:
http://physxinfo.com/index.php?p=gam&f=ppu
11 1 111 11 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 111 1 111 1 1 1 1 111
I have both versions PCI and PCIe1x.
I never got the PCI to work and also never tested the PCIe 😵
Maybe sometime soon when "the weather is crap":
Not sure what the point would be, just get an 8600GTS for 10 bucks they are similar in performance to each other.
wrote:and the batmans WOW LOOK AT THOSE PAPERS FLY!!! THE RUG TUGGING YOUR LEG! The Way It's Meant To Be Played(tm)
🤣 🤣
Jokes aside, most games just add particle effects and such. Cellfactor was using it for gameplay though, wasn't it? That might be impressive, I've heard that it won't work properly with Nvidia cards though.
Here you find the free game cellfactor revolution
~ At least it can do black and white~
There is a way to get them to kinda work with current drivers but one has to go through more hoops and loops than shamu, the last game the works with this is Mirrors Edge. Feel bad letting a few rare prototypes slip as Nvidia did try to carry on the hardware for one more generation but canceled development, they are easy to spot as Nvidia used a Geforce 7 7900 gs/gt style cooler with a orange aluminum vrm cooler.
In short these cards are useless but are worthy of any collector to have in their collection. If one wants to go an extra step the Dell XPS M1730 has one in almost every build stock.
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
You need the old card for some of the original tech demos and games. I have uploaded everything released of techdemos, benchmarks and free games/demos on Vogonsdrivers:
http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/index.php?catid= … menustate=33,32
wrote:Not sure what the point would be, just get an 8600GTS for 10 bucks they are similar in performance to each other.
So the hardware original PhysX cards were slower than the later nvidia "sw/hw" implementation?
wrote:wrote:Not sure what the point would be, just get an 8600GTS for 10 bucks they are similar in performance to each other.
So the hardware original PhysX cards were slower than the later nvidia "sw/hw" implementation?
Yes, but with 8000 series cards you had to use it as a standalone physx card to have the same/better performance as a PhysX PPU card. It wasnt really untill the GTX 280 series that the GPU doing graphics and Physx became just as fast as the PPU card as standalone. Compatilibity wise there were a period when the software supported both the GPU and PPU card, but that didnt last long.
the geforces were a lot faster and the dedicated physx cards lost compatibility with newer titles pretty soon,
still it should be interesting to play around with the UT3 test level or something like that.
Test from LinusTechTips : LINK
I really loved the idea of the card, it was kinda like having the feeling when the 3dfx cards were released.
But it all comes down to developers support, and when it doesn't sell well, it will not get implemented, and dies.
Kinda like the Philips Ambx system. Really liked the idee of using hardware for light effects, wind and rumble. But without descent developer support it died.
