GeForce 8 GPUs to acquire PhysX support via software download

Good news for folks with a GeForce 8 GPU and lots of questions about how the recent Ageia acquisition would affect them: your current card will be receiving PhysX support. When NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was questioned in a recent conference call, he noted that the firm was currently "working towards the physics-engine-to-CUDA port," and it could be delivered as "a software update" to every card that's CUDA-enabled (read: all of the GeForce 8 GPUs). Sadly, the bigwig still wouldn't say when to expect the release of the first PhysX port, but we really can't imagine it taking too awfully long now.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 21st 2008 7:20AM]

Information about new softwares and hardwares

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 16th 2008 1:02AM]

So, in other words, this totally negates the need for the extra Phys-x PCI card?

[Darkest Daze Posted Feb 16th 2008 10:36AM]

..and possibly creates the need for a second video card.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 16th 2008 9:21AM]

cant wait we got PhysX in maya or xsi...

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 16th 2008 2:03AM]

Seriously, not to gloat

but um...

I called it:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/22/john-carmack-doesnt-believe-in-dedicated-ppus/comments/6058324/

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 16th 2008 2:14AM]

Ah yes, and now I see (upon reading that thread again) that so did a bunch of other people.

Never mind.

(hangs head, wishes he could remove his post)

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 16th 2008 4:08AM]

I have an 8600GT, I assume this is included and not just the 8800.

I don't play games on my PC, but if it's free I'll 'av it.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 11:45AM]

actually CUDA was intended to use like 10 or 20 of your stream processors, so maybe if this thing does the same, the decreased cpu load would make up for the 'lost' stream processors thus givin better performance even in single card configuration..

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 16th 2008 4:02PM]

ALL GeForce 8 gpus? Even the Mac ones? Are Macs finally getting physics processors?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 17th 2008 8:30AM]

wOOt.. i recently bought a 512 MB XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog XXX Editiion....this is great news...
long story short : nvidia pwns ati