AGEIA Q&A

by Maarten Goldstein, May 02, 2006 4:23am PDT

Related Topics – Hardware (PC only), PhysX

New at FiringSquad today is this AGEIA Pre-E3 Q&A. The company behind the PhysX PPU is asked about the initial response to their newly released product, the upcoming relaese of PPU supporting games in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Rise of Legends, E3 plans, and the possibility of a cheaper card.

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By: mega man x Show Full Post

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its a trap! http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17568825

May 02, 2006 2:18pm PDT

its a trap! http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17568825 : mega man

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By: Dynotaku x Show Full Post

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$300 for particles and debris/clutter is asking a lot.

When they have a game that lets me knock down buildings with frikkin lasers or rockets, then we'll talk.

May 02, 2006 11:08am PDT

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$300 for particles and debris/clutter is asking a lot. When they have a game that lets me knock down : Dynotaku
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  I do have to agree with you on this. I really need to use my destructive creativity to its fullist for... : sheepraper
  - My opinion is that it will fail to attract critical mass at a price point of $300. I think it will be ea... : ezanga

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By: napalm.cz x Show Full Post

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Particles and other stuff can be done nicely without this HW. On your expensive GPU.

May 02, 2006 12:52pm PDT

Particles and other stuff can be done nicely without this HW. On your expensive GPU. : napalm.cz

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By: winterface x Show Full Post

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I d/led the Ghost recon demo that came with the Ageia thing, and I thought yeah what a stupid thing to do, don't have the card why install drivers, but diging into the program some more apparently there is a software emulation included of its hardware physics card, you can even play with it if you right click on the taskbar icon with shooting balls at boxes.

May 02, 2006 12:09pm PDT

I d/led the Ghost recon demo that came with the Ageia thing, and I thought yeah what a stupid thing to do... : winterface

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By: pebui x Show Full Post

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I wasn't too happy when GRAW for PC installed Ageia drivers on my system even though I didn't have the card, it sayz: "You need to install these drivers even though you don't have a card" -> "Installing" -> "Checking for Ageia PhysX card" -> "No Ageia PhsyX card detected"

No Way! I think I would have pinched myself if it did!

I wonder if a Dual core Athlon can be made to have one core emulate a PhsyX PPU.

May 02, 2006 8:16am PDT

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I wasn't too happy when GRAW for PC installed Ageia drivers on my system even though I didn't have the ca... : pebui
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  again.. http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=12076063 : ShadowRam
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    Hmm, I knew there was some kind of limitation, not sure which, thought it was just the way the processing... : pebui
    - Just because someone says it can't handle the bandwidth doesn't mean its true. Shadowram, do you have an... : ezanga

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By: ezanga x Show Full Post

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I have serious and grave doubts about the viability of $300 add-in "physics" accelerators, particularly as dual-core (and eventually quad-core) systems become even more commonplace. Few games take advantage of multi-proc processing as it is (meaning there is processor capacity to dedicate to physics) and the real value to gamers has yet to be seen until a real physics "killer app" emerges.

The niche as I see it for Ageia is to provide an inexpensive option to enable single-core machines to do advanced physics processing and at $300 you could just buy a multi-core proc (assuming I'm correct).

If physics proccessing does become the next big thing expect to see Intel and AMD all over this.

May 02, 2006 7:44am PDT

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I have serious and grave doubts about the viability of $300 add-in "physics" accelerators, particularly a... : ezanga
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  You can not effiecently do complex physics calcs on a 2nd Core. The memory bandwidth is NOT there. I wish... : ShadowRam
  - I understand that idea of dedicated chips supporting specific functions (physics-specific calculations), ... : ezanga
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  Virtually the same was said of 3D boards with 3Dfx's original Voodoo. This is only the begining : Sylvanus
  - I don't know, I hope you are right. I hope this impacts gaming in the same way 3D acceleration did. On ... : ezanga
  - Also, my point from my original post isn't that I think physics won't be important/significant, but who u... : ezanga

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By: Visceral Monkey x Show Full Post

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Too much for too little. At least right now. The proper price point is more like $150 and maybe $200.

May 02, 2006 10:15am PDT

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Too much for too little. At least right now. The proper price point is more like $150 and maybe $200. : Visceral Monkey
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By: MR 9000 x Show Full Post

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I'm interested to know what Rise of Legends is doing with the card. I'm assuming particles mainly. I've just never thought of the card being used for any game outside of the action genre.

Would be cool to see them use the fluid dynamics for air density, wind, etc., and have it affect flying units.

May 02, 2006 7:27am PDT

I'm interested to know what Rise of Legends is doing with the card. I'm assuming particles mainly. I've... : MR 9000

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By: vertdang x Show Full Post

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When asked about the possibility of a cheaper card, Ageia replied "Bwaaaahahahahaah!"

/not from the article, but likely

May 02, 2006 6:55am PDT

When asked about the possibility of a cheaper card, Ageia replied "Bwaaaahahahahaah!" /not from the ar... : vertdang

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