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icrontic.com - 10/2/2009

AMD comments on NVIDIA dropping PhysX support when ATI hardware is present

— icrontic.com — Could shenanigans be afoot with NVIDIA’s PhysX technology? Just days ago it was reported on Geeks3D that... those who use an ATI GPU for graphics while offloading physics to a PhysX-enabled NVIDIA GPU will no longer be able to use such a setup. ... (more) AMD comments on NVIDIA dropping PhysX support when ATI ...

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ngohq.com - 9/26/2009

Nvidia disables PhysX when ATI card is present

— ngohq.com — Well for all those who have have used Nvidia cards for PhysX and ATI cards to render... graphics in Windows 7...All that is about to change. Since the release of 186 graphics drivers Nvidia has decided to disable PhysX anytime a Non-Nvidia GPU is even ... (more) Nvidia disables PhysX when ATI card is present

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ngohq.com - 10/4/2009

Patch Re-enables PhysX When ATI Card is Present

— ngohq.com — Physx is an open software standard any company can freely develop hardware or software that supports it.... Nvidia supports GPU accelerated Physx on NVIDIA GPUs while using NVIDIA GPUs for graphics. NVIDIA performs extensive Engineering, Development, ... (more) Patch Re-enables PhysX When ATI Card is Present

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Nvidia Reportedly Limits PhysX Support to Nvidia-Only Graphics Sub-Systems
APH Networks — ... move is rather strange, considering the fact that it officially positions its PhysX as an open standard that can be utilized even by its arch-rival ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices. On the other hand, for Nvidia, PhysX and Stereo 3D Vision technologies are tremendously important these days since they are exclusive for company, who cannot offer an alternative to ATI Radeon HD 5800-series graphics cards, the only DirectX 11 GPUs at the moment. View: Article @ Source Site ...

Nvida disables PhysX support
Fudzilla — Image If you use ATI cards Nvidia, which once said it would enable processing of physics effects made using PhysX API on any GPU, is now doing the opposite. According to Xbit , the company recently started to disable PhysX support on systems that use ATI Radeon graphics cards for rendering and Ageia PhysX or Nvidia GeForce processors for physics effects computing. While it was not easy to make both ATI Catalyst or Nvidia ForceWare drivers or Nvidia PhysX system software work on the same system, apparently some people had managed it and this annoyed the Green Goblin. PhysX ...

Update on AMD/Nvidia Anti-Aliasing/PhysX controversy
VR-Zone Articles — ... The first instance was when Nvidia disabled PhysX if used together with an ATI card. While this was done in a Forceware dated July, this news has only come into prominence following the Cypress releases. Many who have bought ATI Radeon graphics cards have retained there old PhysX-compatible Nvidia Geforce cards for the sole intention of running PhysX on it. Some have also bought cheaper Nvidia Geforce cards just so they could run PhysX. However, if you have a ATI Radeon card in your system doing graphics, you cannot the secondary Nvidia card to do ...