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Old 5th February 2008, 04:34 PM   #14 (permalink)
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An Ageia based Physics card will not offer any benifit to Crysis nor majority of other games. Crysis I belive uses there own Physics engine, not Ageia nor Havoc, however there was talk of 1, Crytek offering support to PPU add on cards with there engine, and 2, of Ageia tring to provide a legacy mode that would allow the PPU functions to work with any major physics engines.
Crysis doesn't, GRAW, UT3 and MoH:A do.

Anything that asks whether you want to install the PhysX driver when you're installing it will and Ageia has the complete list on their website.

(1) is a possibilty. (2) is ... very unlikely. Source (HL2, TF2, CS:S ...) nominally uses the Havok engine but it is so modified that a drop-in replacement for the Havok dll that instead linked to Ageia's hardware would fail.

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However, as ATi is looking (maybe completed now) at buying out Ageia, there has been no confirmation of the expected development plans as yet.
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