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ATI Cards and Aegia Physx

23 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/ati-cards-and-aegia-physx.122550/

asingh
asingh Original post #1
Nov 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Hi,

I just installed Scorpion Disfigured on my system. Upon click, it asks for the Aegia Physx 2.7.3. This is not installed on my system.

Any of you guys running a Aegia Physx game on your Radeons. I think Batman : AA, need it. What did you all do...?

Will not the Aegia Physx drivers conflict with the Radeon drivers...any work around..?
furious_gamer
Nov 16, 2009 at 10:51 PM
@asigh

AFAIK PhysX is just disabled if a ATi card is detected. I played GRAW2 in my system and no PhysX, the game looks like a piece of sh1t..:-x
And no way we can use PhysX in ATi cards, but when i googled it, i found something interesting, just check this out, and let us know if it worked out...

*www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-physx-ati,5764.html
asingh
asingh #3
Nov 16, 2009 at 10:59 PM
^^ can I just not install the Physx, and it will run off the CPU.

Did you install the Physx drivers..?
furious_gamer
Nov 16, 2009 at 11:03 PM
^^
No you cant... If you still wanna try, just install them and i say, it'll end in vein...

BTW I have installed once to check it out and didn't work a bit...Crazy companies rip us off with such darn technologies...:-x
asingh
asingh #5
Nov 16, 2009 at 11:05 PM
^^ DLing the Aegia drivers...will post back.
Ethan_Hunt
Nov 16, 2009 at 11:58 PM
^^ can I just not install the Physx, and it will run off the CPU.

Did you install the Physx drivers..?
It's just a PhysX driver and is meant to be installed regardless of you having a nVidia or ATI hardware. If you have a PhysX supporting nVidia card then it would offload the physics calculations to the card, if on ATI, then it won't make a difference as ATI doesn't support that feature at all. So installing the driver won't cause any harm. Not installing it, however, won't allow some games to run at all.
asingh
asingh #7
Nov 17, 2009 at 1:09 AM
^^
Yea it worked. Installed the Aegia drivers. Thanks...>!
asingh
asingh #9
Nov 17, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Yea it is working.

Am using the 9.8s CCC. 9.9 was crappy, and too lazy to download 9.10
N
Nov 17, 2009 at 9:17 PM
^No problems, eh? Maybe 'cause ye'r havin' XFire config. How's the framerates in Batman: AA? Awesome, right? The PhysX?
asingh
asingh #11
Nov 18, 2009 at 10:14 AM
^^ Not installed Batman: AA as of yet.

Scorpion is the first Aegia game I encountered. I have UT3, but it gets away without the Aegia installed. Though Scorpion is recognizing the Xfire, and stressing both boards. There seems to be Physx. With a lot of sparks and particles flying around.

Will try to put some Batman: AA benchmarks up on Xfire.
N
Nov 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM
^No fps drops, eh?
JojoTheDragon
Nov 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
@asign:-- you got the steam version of batman aa??
JojoTheDragon
Nov 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Then no XFIRE support.
asingh
asingh #16
Nov 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM
Oooh...that is crummy....
O
Nov 23, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Such proprietary technologies must be discouraged. It ties you in to install stuff, that you know, is not supported but is required for name sake to enable the game to install.
asingh
asingh #18
Nov 23, 2009 at 10:28 PM
^^ Ya true. nVidia is holding Aegia PhysX to their chest.

And imagine the company which created the game. That too is bad. Being so biased towards a GPU manufacturer.
N
Nov 24, 2009 at 2:50 PM
^But it rocks! PhysX just rocks! DX11 and PhysX will be awesome! NVIDIA, where's GT300?
asingh
asingh #20
Nov 24, 2009 at 9:30 PM
^^
Grrrrroan. Fan Boyism.
B
BlkRb0t #21
Nov 25, 2009 at 8:37 AM
PhysX is just eye candy, the graphics are pretty good even without it. It is not something you must die for. Nvidia will like always blabber about it, more so now as they are spiraling downwards and ATI is looking stronger than ever.
N
Nov 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM
@asigh - I'm no fanboy, but it looks awesome! And everybody feels that, right? It makes the game more "realistic".

@Blk - GT300 isn't here. :wink:
asingh
asingh #23
Nov 25, 2009 at 10:45 PM
^^ Okay sure. Respect your passion for the PhysX. Lets see how the Fermi pans out. Bored of my cards now...!