Darboshanski opened this issue on Mar 30, 2010 · 7 posts
Rich_Potter posted Tue, 30 March 2010 at 5:07 PM
its theoretically for graphic artists but it seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit along with cuda...
http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/physx_new_uk.html
not very much information there at all, appears like it might be a better handling of particles/polys, however niether of their demos seem to be that impressive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physx
also not very much info, seems to be more for games than anything here, however if you look at cuda (which this is part of), that was designed as a CGI boosting jobby and is basically a language that allows programmers to use gfx cards in different ways like gpu rendering etc etc, however nvidia dont seem to be doing much with this at the moment, the program they released
you can read about that http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/what_is_cuda_new_uk.html
Honestly i would say it has very limited effect on v7, but i would have thought that if you have a modernish graphics card (post 2008) you will already have it, or the capability of it as long as you have the cuda enabled drivers.
This is my understanding, no doubt others will have differnet opinions.