notuptome2004 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 so basically wondering what Hardware you all are running and your performance with the new drivers and physx fluid demo and or any other physx based demo something just for fun 3800x2 2GB ram 8600GTS Fluid demo performance Fraps 22FPS and 2FPS software mode on windows vista 32bit ultimate all up to date Poll Options Mean: Fly means better FPS performance drown means lower FPS worse performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashG Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 (edited) Enabling PhysX on my 8800 GTS G92 made that demo... fluid (pun intended :p ). Switching it to SW mode brought it to a crawl. Edited August 13, 2008 by CrashGordon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 let down for me (8800GTX 768mb) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 smooth on my 9600GT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trashpickinman Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 3 FPS with hardware enabled, only about 30% CPU usage. 2 FPS with software only, 100% CPU usage. 8400GS. Yeah I know, I didn't expect much from a card I bought for $8. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 makes no difference to my 8600gt, gets about 7fps on the fluid one no matter if i select geforce physx or no acceleration :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NienorGT Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 The 8400GS can't do PhysX even if it do Cuda... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 The 8400GS can't do PhysX even if it do Cuda... where do you get that from? the release says all 8/9/200 cards are supported as long as they have 256mb of memory which my 8600gt does (512mb) and i assume trashpickinman's 8400gs has 256mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trashpickinman Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 My 8400GS has 256MB. I can select 'Geforce Physx' in hardware device selection, and it shows it as 'HW' mode in the fluid demo. With 'no acceleration' selected 'SW' mode is shown in the demo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 13, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 13, 2008 I can't even select software mode :/ The demo runs ok, the "fluid" looks like crap though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 where does it say the HW/SW i cant see either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhon Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 My folding@home went up about 300 itr/sec. As for games the same a bit of difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Enabling PhysX on my 8800 GTS G92 made that demo... fluid (pun intended :p ). Switching it to SW mode brought it to a crawl. Same! It's amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azz0r_wugg Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Where can I download all this stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashG Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Where can I download all this stuff? Try here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewithin/us/download.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 (edited) i tried a small program called phyX fluidmark it does some benchmarking for phyX phyX thro CPU (software mode )got about ~1286 point about 22 fps on average phyX thro gpu got about ~5300 point much smoother 89 fps average some major improvment over cpu mode :D edit : waired the screenshot doesn't show up Edited August 13, 2008 by Skynetfuture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahhell Posted August 13, 2008 Share Posted August 13, 2008 Has anyone tried these drivers with any games (LOTRO in particular)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_c_b Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 Has anyone tried these drivers with any games (LOTRO in particular)? I have played LOTRO for a couple hours after installing these drivers, work just fine, exactly like 177.99 BETAs. Work just fine in Crysis, TF2, UT3 and FEAR as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amano Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 NVIDIA PhysX Particle Fluid Demo on my BFG 9800GTX ~25FPS w/ PhysX enabled. ~4FPS w/ PhysX disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 All my games are running great with these drivers, including orange box, crysis, cod4 ect.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerxes Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 This fluid demo a seperate download or the one included with the drivers? (the ones found in PhysX options) I was feeling brave and decided to try them to see how badly it would run on my 8600GTS and it ran smooth with PhysX on and off :blink: I must be doing something wrong...I'm guessing it's probally a seperate application? where you get it from? Nvidia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashG Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 This fluid demo a seperate download or the one included with the drivers? (the ones found in PhysX options) I was feeling brave and decided to try them to see how badly it would run on my 8600GTS and it ran smooth with PhysX on and off :blink: I must be doing something wrong...I'm guessing it's probally a seperate application? where you get it from? Nvidia? Try here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewithin/us/download.asp it's the last one on the list, just uncheck all the other boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lalalawawawa Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 If you want smoother performance, use GTX2xx or 9800 as a main GPU and a 9600GT as a GPU that will be in charge of PhysX. There is only one problem, and that is that you will need a little more blood (money). :) EDIT: This is meant for PhysX enabled games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCalledChaos Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 The Only games that will benefit are games that support PhysX... all other games will run the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis W. Veteran Posted August 14, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 14, 2008 The first PhysX enabled game I tried, UT3, suffered in the PhysX Mod Pack maps. In Lighthouse, after blowing half the walls to bits, FPS dropped to 4. :| Tornado wasn't all that much better; a 9-bot CTF match with the tornado ripping through the map pulled frames down to 10. Honestly, that doesn't look impressive in the least. Something like what Alan Wake demonstrated with Intel CPUs and Havok was far better, and probably less taxing on the system to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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