[Flipside]

Ah, I see, didn't know that. I'll freely admit, my knowledge of GPU's is pretty limited (as I just proved).

[neoterran]

I never said PhysX thing was going to be successful - it probably won't be. But it's virtually guaranteed that physics will make it's way into hardware at some point. I'm betting the next generation of GPUs will include some kind of hardware physics calculation capabilities... it's just begging to be exploited...

[Flipside]

Exactly, these cards won't add much speed but they'll give birth to, for want of a better description, a physics version of OpenGL, that will provide the basic 'Rosetta Stone' for later, more powerful cards

[Colonol Dekker]

One step closer to the Matrix or holodeck equivalent physics in games....
I want a pc that plugs right into my Brain !!
saves all that faffing aboutwith speakers and monitors anyway...

[Turambar]

if my gpu is doing physics, doesn't that mean that it's doing less making my stuff look uber-good?

[Flipside]

Not sure where physics go at the moment, I thought the CPU did them.

It'll probably end up with the grpahics card doing the rendering, the physics card doing the physics and the CPU being free to do the AI and being 'The One Ring', as it were

[Colonol Dekker]

At the mo all physicsis cpu / game software, Hence the term physcs engine/model.
Its amazing how far from pong we've come.