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First post, by Hamby

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I came across this nvidia physX PCI card and at first had the amusing thought of sticking it in my 486 system, since it has pci slots.
But I don't think it would do anything for DOS/WFW3.11 software.
Would it be worthwhile putting in a pentium based system with an AGP video card say a GF2-MX200, running Win98?
Is there any software that supports it?

Reply 1 of 7, by The Serpent Rider

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Is there any software that supports it?

No. AFAIK drivers are also for NT 5.x based OS only.

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Reply 3 of 7, by Koltoroc

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Only XP or higher is supported. But even if for example 9x drivers existed, why? there is no game that could even run on 486 or pentium that supports physx. We are are talking about mid to late 2000s games after all.

Reply 4 of 7, by hwh

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That card barely works with any games anyway...more of a concept than functional.

Reply 5 of 7, by fitzpatr

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Absolutely not a chance.

Any game with PhysX capability is more than a decade newer than a pentium-class system. Ghost Recon needs a Pentium 4 2GHz and a GeForce 6 class GPU. You're orders of magnitude apart.

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Reply 6 of 7, by Hamby

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I figured that would be the case. I just had to indulge my perverse nature 🤣

Reply 7 of 7, by oeuvre

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fizz x is so 2004

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