Comments on: Dark Void: benchmark and PhysX patch available

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:36:31 +0000

You guys just don’t get it, what’s the point of launching such an aggressive marketing campaign on a product such as Physx without expecting a huge increase in sales??? Do you think that they’ve bought Ageia just willing to contribute to the gaming community by further expanding it to not only PPU but GPU and CPU? GPU for sure because that’s what they sell, John Carmack has already stated that it is not a good approach to optimize only for GPU/PPU when the CPU technology keeps improving every day, today we have blazing fast processors that even the most demanding applications won’t take advantage of all those cores, the developers have to sweat on their code to make these babies cry otherwise it will be just a wast to adding more and more cores. Any case the point is, it’s their right to not optimize Physx for multi-core cpus, they own the product, in fact they’ve optimized for the PS3, Wii, XBOX360, but won’t do it for the PC because they can’t compete with ATI, you’ve got to agree that that’s not the way to go, not how it’s meant to be played!

Proudly owner of an ATI HD5870. btw I also own an Ageia PPU card which now is useless because of the new driver limitations.

By: MicrO

MicrO — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:09:29 +0000

lol WTF ? 8800gt with GT240 is better with LOW Physx than GTX260 OC ? .. ou may gad !

By: mareknr

mareknr — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:15:47 +0000

GT240 will be good. My results was with everything high an resolution 1920×1080.

By: MicrO

MicrO — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:33:40 +0000

sry for spam new and last result – off Vsync …
18,41 MIN and 25,71 AVG
i think that buy new graphic card on PhysX … GT240 ? x)

By: MicrO

MicrO — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:29:14 +0000

i got it … i un/instelled PhysX and my results – 16,43min and 23,59AVG … really bad, 8800gt + GT240 is better =-O and settings 1280×1024 (native) and medium (no Vsync)

By: MicrO

MicrO — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:07:07 +0000

hey, hmm i have problem
when i change PhysX in benchmark on LOW … i have fps 1,81 min and 4,47 AVG … its suck, wtf ?

By: Zogrim

Zogrim — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:03:32 +0000

Yes, it may differ. For me Dark Void wasn’t even starting, until I’ve reintalled main PhysX driver after uninstalling Game Software.

By: mareknr

mareknr — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:52:34 +0000

Intristing is, that I uninstaled it but I didn’t reinstall main PhysX driver and it seems that everything works fine.

By: Zogrim

Zogrim — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:43:30 +0000

mareknr
Why is problem with this SW and what is it purpose?
What is the purpose of PhysX System Software (also called PhysX Drivers) ? It’s package, that contains vital engine .dlls and some firmware – needed for every PhysX SDK based game to work (even on CPU).
In case of Dark Void, System Software it was installing may result in conflict with main PhysX drivers, and reinstall is easy way to fix it.

By: mareknr

mareknr — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:20:59 +0000

Used patch only for game. Benchmark doesn’t need it. 8800GT render graphics and compute PhysX while GT240 compute only PhysX. Because of this there is difference.