Wondering what PhysX acceleration on Nvidia cards and what effects does it have on Vue infinite 7?
Do I need it or is it for gamers?

Thanks!

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.

it's more of a game thing.  Offloads some processing onto the GPU (from what I remember of it anyway) so not much use in Vue because I don't think Vue is written to take advantage of it

PhysX is useless for CG, it is Physics based for gaming only, if you do not have it on your video card you cannot take advantage of games such as FarCry 2 that utilise PhysX.

Quote - its theoretically for graphic artists but it seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit along with cuda...

actually Cuda's alive and kicking along with OpenCL. see the developments with Octane Render for an example...

Quote - > Quote - its theoretically for graphic artists but it seems to have fallen by the wayside a bit along with cuda...

actually Cuda's alive and kicking along with OpenCL. see the developments with Octane Render for an example...

Correct, check out the new nVidia 480GTX cards now hitting the market.

You can see in the detailed specs that both CUDA and OpenCL are supported. Most sites have reviewed this card already such as arstechnica, tomshardware, etc. Another good card that I know a couple of people use is the ATI 5970 which they say is awesome.

$500 dollar card, 275 watts of power, priceless....hehehe