Physics Processor???

GRouND ZeRo · Unread post by **GRouND ZeRo** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:53 pm

OK so you got a great GPU(Video Card) and an awesome CPU... but what is missing???

Physics Processing Unit???

BFG Tech has an answer...

http://www.bfgtech.com/physx/index.htm

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GRouND ZeRo · Unread post by **GRouND ZeRo** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:35 pm

No replies??? This gadget helps get rid of the CPU usage bottleneck!

TheMickeyM© · Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:55 am

I can see this being a VERY hot item once games are released that will use it. But for right now this is far more useful to engineers doing dynamic studies on structures in a CAE system.
I think by the time it gets useful to gamers, it will end up a co-prosesor on a graphics card rather than a "stand alone" card. IMHO

Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:19 am

I agree with Mickey, and even would go so far as betting that with multicore processors, the physics of a game will be handled by one of the cores already in place. There will be no need for a separate processor on a card.

Unread post by **QwazyWabbit** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:48 pm

Game physics is handled in the server for players and projectiles and in the client for rendering in the GPU. This is great for game stations or single player but I wonder how it will perform (or if it will help) on a multiplayer/multigame online server. The most CPU intensive stuff is now happening in the server side games like Enemy Territory and BF series games. The servers don't have the graphics burden but when it comes to keeping 64 players unlagged they fall down.

GRouND ZeRo · Unread post by **GRouND ZeRo** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:09 pm

QwazyWabbit wrote:Game physics is handled in the server for players and projectiles and in the client for rendering in the GPU. This is great for game stations or single player but I wonder how it will perform (or if it will help) on a multiplayer/multigame online server. The most CPU intensive stuff is now happening in the server side games like Enemy Territory and BF series games. The servers don't have the graphics burden but when it comes to keeping 64 players unlagged they fall down.

That would be totally awesome to have more power for each server to render each player much faster and to have much more processing power to do it would be something else especially with particles from real world dynamics.

I wonder if BFG is considering of building a client rendering card??? Especially with the MMORPG's out there where millions can be on a server at any time... Or would that be tooo much to have more of a lifelike feel to a game???