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Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33099518

TLDR: NVIDIA removed support for PhysX with the 50 series GPUs, resulting in worse performance with PhysX games than previous GPU generations

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

It only ever got deployed in a few dozen games

Is the only sentence in the entire article you need to be aware of.

This is rage-bait.

This is a list of the games it affects:

  • Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia
  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
  • Crazy Machines 2
  • Unreal Tournament 3
  • Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction
  • Hot Dance Party
  • QQ Dance
  • Hot Dance Party II
  • Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
  • Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
  • Mirror's Edge
  • Armageddon Riders
  • Darkest of Days
  • Batman: Arkham Asylum
  • Sacred 2: Ice & Blood
  • Shattered Horizon
  • Star Trek DAC
  • Metro 2033
  • Dark Void
  • Blur
  • Mafia II
  • Hydrophobia: Prophecy
  • Jianxia 3
  • Alice: Madness Returns
  • MStar
  • Batman: Arkham City
  • 7554
  • Depth Hunter
  • Deep Black
  • Gas Guzzlers: Combat Carnage
  • The Secret World
  • Continent of the Ninth (C9)
  • Borderlands 2
  • Passion Leads Army
  • QQ Dance 2
  • Star Trek
  • Mars: War Logs
  • Metro: Last Light
  • Rise of the Triad
  • The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
  • Batman: Arkham Origins
  • Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
  • Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (5 children)

this is an incomplete list. as per the wiki article:

PhysX in Video Games

PhysX technology is used by game engines such as Unreal Engine (version 3 onwards), Unity, Gamebryo, Vision (version 6 onwards), Instinct Engine, Panda3D, Diesel, Torque, HeroEngine, and BigWorld.

As one of the handful of major physics engines, it is used in many games, such as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Warframe, Killing Floor 2, Fallout 4, Batman: Arkham Knight, Planetside 2, and Borderlands 2. Most of these games use the CPU to process the physics simulations.

Video games with optional support for hardware-accelerated PhysX often include additional effects such as tearable cloth, dynamic smoke, or simulated particle debris.

PhysX in Other Software

Other software with PhysX support includes:

  • Active Worlds (AW), a 3D virtual reality platform with its client running on Windows
  • Amazon Lumberyard, a 3D game development engine developed by Amazon
  • Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, and Autodesk Softimage, computer animation suites
  • DarkBASIC Professional (with DarkPHYSICS upgrade), a programming language targeted at game development
  • DX Studio, an integrated development environment for creating interactive 3D graphics
  • ForgeLight, a game engine developed by the former Sony Online Entertainment
  • Futuremark's 3DMark06 and Vantage benchmarking tools
  • Microsoft Robotics Studio, an environment for robot control and simulation
  • Nvidia's SuperSonic Sled and Raging Rapids Ride, technology demos
  • OGRE (via the NxOgre wrapper), an open source rendering engine
  • The Physics Abstraction Layer, a physical simulation API abstraction system (it provides COLLADA and Scythe Physics Editor support for PhysX)
  • Rayfire, a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max that allows fracturing and other physics simulations
  • The Physics Engine Evaluation Lab, a tool designed to evaluate, compare, and benchmark physics engines
  • Unreal Engine game development software by Epic Games. Unreal Engine 4.26 and onwards has officially deprecated PhysX.
  • Unity by Unity ApS. Unity's Data-Oriented Technology Stack does not use PhysX.
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Yeah, and a great post too - because some of your points here just point out that everyone ELSE have deprecated PhysX as well. Unity and Unreal both dropped it long ago. It's basically a moot point for 99.9% of people playing games.

Instead of using a PPU on the GPU, most people have focused on GPGPU physics calculations instead. The idea behind PhysX was a difficult one to launch in the first place. Given that most chip real-estate is going to these VPUs, I'm not surprised at all that they ditched the PPU for a more generalized version.

[–] LaggyKar 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think there has ever been a PPU on the GPU. It did originally run on PPU cards by Ageia, but AFAIK PhysX on GPU:s used CUDA GPGPU right from the start.

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