Comments on: NVIDIA Buying AGEIA

By: Norbit

Norbit — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:22:36 +0000

At the moment there is very little reason to buy a PhysX card because I believe only about 13 games use it but if they incorporate the tech into a GPU hopefully devs will take advantage of it. This means I will probably be switching from Ati to Nvidia for my next GPUs.

Interestingly last months edition of Custom PC magazine said in their 2008 predictions that this year would see the end of PhysX unless it is bought out by Nvidia or AMD.

By: DeathDream

DeathDream — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:47:23 +0000

I think it was a good idea. I just hope to see Nvidia putting this in their graphics cards some how instead of keeping it two different units.

~Death Dream~

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:57:31 +0000

Im sure if Nvidia aquires them, there platform and sdk will become the streamline physics software to use. I mean… they are awesome anyway. Why would you not use the ageia sdk when it is obviously about to become part of gaming history?

By: Dragon

Dragon — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:29:29 +0000

“Still, having two of the frontrunners of gaming technology working under the same roof can’t be a bad thing.”

But Ageia aren’t a frontrunner in gaming tech, hundreds more games run on the Havok physics tech and don’t need some expensive card to get any sort of benefit.

Non hardware accelerated Ageia physics are almost no different to any other physics tech, you need the PPU to show it off and for me, paying about £100 for a card that will be used by one solitary game that I own (City of Heros/Villains, even then the bosted pysics for that are underwhelming) it’s just now worth it, there are not enough games out that support Ageia to warrant buying one their PPUs yet.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:04:08 +0000

What I hope this doesn’t mean: that my 8800 is suddenly even less top-of-the-line.

By: Green_Day_584

Green_Day_584 — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:22:09 +0000

LOL! what will they name themselves as now? AGIDIA?

nah, jokes. this will be great… maybe we’ll see GPU – PPU hybrids XD

By: D3con

D3con — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:41:12 +0000

I can’t wait to get a gppu lol.