AGEIA PhysX physics accelerator

mrjack · 10-03-2006, 03:29 PM

If you guys have seen the video from IDF (Intel Developers Forum) where they showed how the upcoming game Alan Wake utilizes cores, they actually made use of all the power they could. They had a Kentsfield CPU running at about 3.7GHz and probably a Quad SLI setup, as they said it had nVidia graphics solution and they want the best performance they can get.

They showed a hurricane ripping through buildings etc. in the game, and in order to calculate the physics they dedicated one of the 4 cores to do just that. I don't think many games out now do that kind of thing with multi-core CPU's. Here's the video. You guys should pretty quickly notice that one of the guys talking is from Finland.

[-0MEGA-] · 10-03-2006, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by mrjack

If you guys have seen the video from IDF (Intel Developers Forum) where they showed how the upcoming game Alan Wake utilizes cores, they actually made use of all the power they could. They had a Kentsfield CPU running at about 3.7GHz and probably a Quad SLI setup, as they said it had nVidia graphics solution and they want the best performance they can get.

They showed a hurricane ripping through buildings etc. in the game, and in order to calculate the physics they dedicated one of the 4 cores to do just that. I don't think many games out now do that kind of thing with multi-core CPU's. Here's the video. You guys should pretty quickly notice that one of the guys talking is from Finland.

Thats awesome!

Nightrain · 10-03-2006, 05:54 PM

WOW!!! the vid quality looks like crap cuz its youtube so ur like ehh doesnt look special. but once they hit the water and changed the weather it was like holy s***. the tornado was cool, and the amount of physics they put into it. but i was more impressed with the quality of the sceneries and the lighting...but all i can say is wow!!!now i see a reason/use for 4 cores. it would make the gaming experience amazing...all i can say is wow

10-03-2006, 03:29 PM	#11 (permalink)
mrjack VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Finland Age: 17 Posts: 2,361	If you guys have seen the video from IDF (Intel Developers Forum) where they showed how the upcoming game Alan Wake utilizes cores, they actually made use of all the power they could. They had a Kentsfield CPU running at about 3.7GHz and probably a Quad SLI setup, as they said it had nVidia graphics solution and they want the best performance they can get. They showed a hurricane ripping through buildings etc. in the game, and in order to calculate the physics they dedicated one of the 4 cores to do just that. I don't think many games out now do that kind of thing with multi-core CPU's. Here's the video. You guys should pretty quickly notice that one of the guys talking is from Finland. __________________ Main rig: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 3GHz \| MSI P7N Zilent 2x2048Mb OCZ Titanium 800MHz DDR2 Samsung Spinpoint T166 320Gb SATAII Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250Gb SATAII Western Digital Caviar 500Gb SATAII MSI NX8800GT OC 512Mb @ 660MHz/950MHz Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio \| Antec Truepower Trio 550W Last edited by mrjack; 10-03-2006 at 03:31 PM.

10-03-2006, 05:54 PM	#13 (permalink)
Nightrain Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: In my PC...it's warm in here Age: 21 Posts: 288	WOW!!! the vid quality looks like crap cuz its youtube so ur like ehh doesnt look special. but once they hit the water and changed the weather it was like holy s***. the tornado was cool, and the amount of physics they put into it. but i was more impressed with the quality of the sceneries and the lighting...but all i can say is wow!!!now i see a reason/use for 4 cores. it would make the gaming experience amazing...all i can say is wow __________________ My New Rig : Intel e6300 @3.325Ghz (475Mhz FSB) Gigabyte P35-DS3R 2 x 1Gb Corsair DDR2-800@950 EVGA 8800GTS superclocked 320Mb 160gb 7200rpm WD Sata drive Swiftech H2O Ultra +MCW30 chipset block 650w BFG PSU 3dMark06:11,264

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