Was nvidia physx really good?

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Ellie ⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦ 22 Jul @ 8:27am

I saw some people praising it and its kinda stupid.From what i remember it really made small differences and cost too much performance.Also theres newer games that achieve better effects without nvidia's technology.I also never use ray tracing the differebce is hard to see while playing

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Lunar Fang 22 Jul @ 8:27am

I trace the ray.

steven1mac 22 Jul @ 8:39am

Just one of the many gimmicks like hair works a few generations ago, or like the A.I. they are pushing now.

matt 22 Jul @ 9:43am

PhysX is still used in games today. Early PhysX games depended on hardware acceleration and had really crappy software drivers. People who didn't have a PhysX accelerator (or an Nvidia card, after Nvidia bought them) got poor performance. I remember people begging me not to do stuff in MP games because their frame rate fell down to like 5 fps.

malaria 22 Jul @ 2:03pm

Originally posted by steven1mac:
Just one of the many gimmicks like hair works a few generations ago, or like the A.I. they are pushing now.

the AI at least makes some games somewhat playable, I'd say Ray Tracing is more of a gimmick

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Eagle_of_Fire 22 Jul @ 5:53pm

I've never heard of PhysX in other way than to mention how problematic they are when they are turned on...

Originally posted by malaria:
Originally posted by steven1mac:
Just one of the many gimmicks like hair works a few generations ago, or like the A.I. they are pushing now.
the AI at least makes some games somewhat playable, I'd say Ray Tracing is more of a gimmick

Being forced to use frame generation to "make some game playable" is a self report... An admission that the game is crap and badly coded to begin with that that you should not buy it in the first place.

Last edited by Eagle_of_Fire; 22 Jul @ 5:54pm

Ellie ⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦ 22 Jul @ 11:57pm

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:
I've never heard of PhysX in other way than to mention how problematic they are when they are turned on...

Originally posted by malaria:
the AI at least makes some games somewhat playable, I'd say Ray Tracing is more of a gimmick
Being forced to use frame generation to "make some game playable" is a self report... An admission that the game is crap and badly coded to begin with that that you should not buy it in the first place.

maybe nvidia's gpus are bad?

KaveMan 23 Jul @ 4:38am

Nvidia likes to use gimmick features and claiming them to be exclusive technologies. They are also known for re-branding existing cards and calling them newer models. These are facts.

Those who are too blind to see the truth will never realise it.

cinedine 23 Jul @ 6:34am

PhysX was great. The amout of particles and visual fidelity it granted in games that supported it was a real difference in its time.
But multicore CPUs have become commonplace since and why have a dedicated card if you can use a whole core? So game physics computation went back to being a CPU task.

You can hardly compare gaming back 20 years ago with games running on modern hardware

malaria 23 Jul @ 8:16am

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:
I've never heard of PhysX in other way than to mention how problematic they are when they are turned on...

Originally posted by malaria:
the AI at least makes some games somewhat playable, I'd say Ray Tracing is more of a gimmick
Being forced to use frame generation to "make some game playable" is a self report... An admission that the game is crap and badly coded to begin with that that you should not buy it in the first place.

so like 70% of new releases? I don't like having to use it but it beats nothing rofl