NVIDIA enables PhysX and CUDA support for GeForce 8 and hig

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » August 12th, 2008, 16:00

NVIDIA enables PhysX and CUDA support for GeForce 8 and higher GPUs with free downloads
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Gaming

It's a not a direct response to AMD unveiling the HD Radeon 4850 X2 and 4870 X2 yesterday, but NVIDIA also came to play at SIGGRAPH, and it's got new lots of new GPU-as-CPU toys for us this morning -- and what's more, they're free. Like we'd been hearing, GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series cards are all getting PhysX support as of today via a free GeForce Power Pack that contains a free full copy of Warmonger, three PhysX-enabled Unreal Tournament 3 maps, demos of Metal Knight Zero and the Nurien UT3-based social networking service, and a couple tech demos. The Power Pack also includes some new CUDA apps to play with, including a new Folding@Home client (ahem) and a trial version of the Badaboom video transcoder. That's a lot of new toys, so get downloading and let us know what you think!

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Author: Nilay Patel
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Publish Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:43:00 EST
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Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 12th, 2008, 16:07

http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewith ... wnload.asp is where stuff is hidded.

Post by **FatherJack** » August 12th, 2008, 16:17

Actual water better come out of my screen.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 12th, 2008, 16:18

FatherJack wrote:Actual water better come out of my screen.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » August 12th, 2008, 19:32

A mere 2.7GB for the whole pack.

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » August 12th, 2008, 20:50

Every demo makes my pc cry, I was seeing 14-15 ave. fps.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » August 12th, 2008, 22:10

spoodie wrote:A mere 2.7GB for the whole pack.

Although some of it probably won't run without a new card.

Badaboom is a beta video converter. It's fast, but lacks support for useful codecs like Fraps. It also lacks powerful output options, instead going for a simpler Device + Quality/FileSize Slider.
Edit: The video it has output for PSP is terrible. I'd avoid this.

The Fluid demo is pretty, I got around 23 fps on the spout, a little less on the liquid-filled nVidia logo.
About to try Warmonger- the other demos need a beefier card than my 8800GTS.

edit: Good lord. It's terrible. Be careful of the gamespy installer too.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » August 13th, 2008, 8:44

Stoat wrote:the other demos need a beefier card than my 8800GTS

Dammit, It can't be time for a new card already

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 13th, 2008, 8:46

mrbobbins wrote: Dammit, It can't be time for a new card already

It's not really, tech demos are tech demos.

Once you find a game (not crysis, it's a tech demo) that runs like shit then it's time for a new card.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » August 13th, 2008, 9:11

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
It's not really, tech demos are tech demos.

Once you find a game (not crysis, it's a tech demo) that runs like shit then it's time for a new card.

Guess I'll find out when the good games arrive!.

Please to be here now kthanxbye.

Post by **Dog Pants** » August 13th, 2008, 9:27

mrbobbins wrote:
Guess I'll find out when the good games arrive!.

Please to be here now kthanxbye.

So much. Which gives me a poll idea...