Nvidia Physx Performance + new drivers

[notuptome2004]

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

[CrashG]

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

[Unimatrix Xero]

let down for me (8800GTX 768mb)

[ViperAFK]

smooth on my 9600GT

[trashpickinman]

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:

[Mike]

makes no difference to my 8600gt, gets about 7fps on the fluid one no matter if i select geforce physx or no acceleration :/

[NienorGT]

The 8400GS can't do PhysX even if it do Cuda...

[Mike]

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

[trashpickinman]

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.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I can't even select software mode :/

The demo runs ok, the "fluid" looks like crap though.

[Mike]

where does it say the HW/SW i cant see either

[Typhon]

My folding@home went up about 300 itr/sec. As for games the same a bit of difference.

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

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!

[azz0r_wugg]

Where can I download all this stuff?

[CrashG]

Where can I download all this stuff?

Try here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewithin/us/download.asp

[Ci7]

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

[ahhell]

Has anyone tried these drivers with any games (LOTRO in particular)?

[bob_c_b]

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.

[Amano]

NVIDIA PhysX Particle Fluid Demo on my BFG 9800GTX

~25FPS w/ PhysX enabled.

~4FPS w/ PhysX disabled.

[ViperAFK]

All my games are running great with these drivers, including orange box, crysis, cod4 ect..

[Xerxes]

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?

[CrashG]

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.

[lalalawawawa]

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.

[SoCalledChaos]

The Only games that will benefit are games that support PhysX... all other games will run the same

[Denis W. Veteran]

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.