Mr.Vic20 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/nvidia-physx-engine-now-is-open-source.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaethos Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 If this means no more Nvidia cards only effects than this is great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 9 minutes ago, jaethos said: If this means no more Nvidia cards only effects than this is great. You just know Nvidia is going to develop its own proprietary "Nvidiaysics" nonsense. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 Whatever the reason we all know it not altruism. More than likely this has something to do with encouraging the adoption of the Turing architecture or more specifically the the Tensor core component of that architecture. Bottom line, they wouldn't have done this unless A.) they would make more money doing so, and B.) they have another suite of proprietary features to gild the Nvidia lily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 So will games have to be designed with this in mind, or will it make it so you can just install the driver and have AMD cards run PhysX on games that already have PhysX (e.g. Witcher 3)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted December 3, 2018 Author Share Posted December 3, 2018 3 minutes ago, Jason said: So will games have to be designed with this in mind, or will it make it so you can just install the driver and have AMD cards run PhysX on games that already have PhysX (e.g. Witcher 3)? For most games, in which there is already some level of Physx code already present, it shouldn't require much more than a patch, I would think. Some engines, like Unity already have native support for Physx, so the support on AMD cards should take much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 4 hours ago, Mr.Vic20 said: For most games, in which there is already some level of Physx code already present, it shouldn't require much more than a patch, I would think. Some engines, like Unity already have native support for Physx, so the support on AMD cards should take much. It would be more of a driver update from AMD than a patch from the dev for the game, wouldn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 4 hours ago, Mr.Vic20 said: Whatever the reason we all know it not altruism. More than likely this has something to do with encouraging the adoption of the Turing architecture or more specifically the the Tensor core component of that architecture. Bottom line, they wouldn't have done this unless A.) they would make more money doing so, and B.) they have another suite of proprietary features to gild the Nvidia lily. I’d guess that physx runs so much better on turing than anything amd provides that them allowing amd to run it, thus having them show up in benchmarks against each other, will make nvidia cards look even more ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Now AMD owners can enjoy the globs of goo in Borderlands 2! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 2 hours ago, Spork3245 said: It would be more of a driver update from AMD than a patch from the dev for the game, wouldn't it? You know, you might be right there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 The motivation here seems to have little to do with gaming. Nvidia is trying to increase their (already substantial) dominance in AI. The improvements they made are specially tailored to AI and robotics research. And the thing is, the AI community has a strong preference for open-source software, so open sourcing it was a necessary step. The benefit of course, is that if the AI community embraces PhysX, they'll also want to use Nvidia hardware, because Nvidia can make sure it's most optimized for that hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cusideabelincoln Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Maybe Nvidia will finally support Freesync. I'd like to get a new monitor, and the best deals are on Freesync ones. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 7 minutes ago, cusideabelincoln said: Maybe Nvidia will finally support Freesync. I'd like to get a new monitor, and the best deals are on Freesync ones. It would also make the VRR on 2018 QLED TVs usable on nVidia cards since it’s basically freesync. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted December 4, 2018 Author Share Posted December 4, 2018 36 minutes ago, cusideabelincoln said: Maybe Nvidia will finally support Freesync. I'd like to get a new monitor, and the best deals are on Freesync ones. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 1 hour ago, Mr.Vic20 said: I just pray they support VRR through HDMI 2.1. I won't give up OLED for a friggen nVidia TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 2 hours ago, Mr.Vic20 said: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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