Batman PC Trailer Highlights PhysX Effects

by Chris Faylor, Sep 01, 2009 2:35pm PDT

Related Topics – Batman: Arkham Asylum, Tom Clancy's EndWar, Gardening Mama, Trailer, PC, PhysX

What, you thought that the trailer train would stop just because Batman: Arkham Asylum arrived on consoles last week? Why, that notion is almost as mad as The Joker himself.

Instead of focusing on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 editions, the latest trailer examines the September 15-due PC edition and the various PhysX effects--falling leaves, rustling papers, fog, more tiles per explosion, etc.--that NVIDIA's GeForce hardware adds.

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Physx was a good idea before I got a quad-core CPU -- now two of my cores are scratching their silicon while my GPU is suffocating.

Someone should come out with a separate card that does nothing but physics computations.

Sep 01, 2009 3:51pm PDT

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  Nvidia should just put PhysX on their motherboards and it would be problem solved. : MeestaNob
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    *gasp* That's brilliant. My gfx card should be for textures and shaders only -- CPU's are way more powerful now than they were when the PhysX cards were developed.
    
    Sep 01, 2009 4:02pm PDT
    
    *gasp* That's brilliant. My gfx card should be for textures and shaders only -- CPU's are way more powe... : Jobos
- I can't tell if this is sarcasm, but PhysX cards were separate devices before the nVidia takeover. : BornAcorn
- You can already do that! Right now, my 280gtx only does the graphics while my 9800gt is dedicated to phys... : bloodypalace
- You can set the affinity of your cores for a game under the task manager, which will spread the load out ... : JackAxe
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  I do that now. My GTX 285 does graphics while my old 8800GT does Physx. Its a nice bonus instead of dumpi... : Serpico74
  - I'd do that but I only have one PCI 16 slot :( : Jobos

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