Nvidia to acquire Ageia

Hardin · Feb 4, 2008

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10573
Now this is pretty interesting. Maybe now we wont have to buy a seperate card just to get advanced physics.

Oc1Kenube · Feb 4, 2008

Never even contemplated buying one. What is interesting, is that developers might actually start making games that support it.

Godfather1138 · Feb 4, 2008

It was only a matter of time, and I for one am glad to hear it.

Shiggity · Feb 4, 2008

Well we'll have to see how long it takes Nvidia to incorporate Ageia technology into their cards.

PhysX · Feb 4, 2008

Lol i Know someone over at ageia, ill see if he will tell me anything.

edit:

just shot him an email so we will see what he says, i was very vague about what I was asking,but he'll know what I'm talking about

Will update when I get the info.

ChinStrap · Feb 5, 2008

Shiggity said:
Well we'll have to see how long it takes Nvidia to incorporate Ageia technology into their cards.

this. +1

Zerix01 · Feb 5, 2008

I was pretty ****ed when I found out that Intel bought Havok thus killing good support for physics on a GPU. Stick it to them Nvidia.

I also hope this brings PhysX drivers to Linux.

AngelfireUk83 · Feb 5, 2008

I use Nvidia cards due to the fact I use nForce chipsets it's less hassle with hardware problems not that I have ever come across ATi cards to cause problems I once owned a ATI 800XL AGP and a Nforce2 Ultra board. Anyways I knew it would be nVidia to buy Ageia out AMD/ATi couldn't possibly do it and if INTEL bought HAVOK then whats left for AMD/ATi nothing only in house.

I hope they p*ss on INTEL's camp fire ha ha.

Rinne · Feb 5, 2008

AngelfireUk83 said:
I use Nvidia cards due to the fact I use nForce chipsets it's less hassle with hardware problems not that I have ever come across ATi cards to cause problems I once owned a ATI 800XL AGP and a Nforce2 Ultra board. Anyways I knew it would be nVidia to buy Ageia out AMD/ATi couldn't possibly do it and if INTEL bought HAVOK then whats left for AMD/ATi nothing only in house.

I hope they p*ss on INTEL's camp fire ha ha.

I think that might be a problem when incorporating physics into games...

it would be NVIDIA only...

otherwise most games are sponsored by NVIDIA anyways..

PhysX · Feb 5, 2008

My guy says yes.

Jas · Feb 5, 2008

Well, lets see what comes of this in a year or two.

DrSpanky · Feb 5, 2008

Rinne said:
otherwise most games are sponsored by NVIDIA anyways..

Nvidia - The Way It's Meant To Be Played... could be the only way its abled to to be played depending how much they invest in development. if games rely on hardware physics you may be left with buy a nvidia gfx card or buy a nvidia physics card if you want to play certain games.

PhysX · Feb 6, 2008

PhysX said:
My guy says yes.

my source was telling the truth.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1202161567170.html

Careface · Feb 6, 2008

Oh sweet. So whats going to happen with this? Are we talking GPU+physics processor on the same gfx board or..?

Either way, this is gonna be awesome

Oc1Kenube · Feb 6, 2008

Careface said:
Oh sweet. So whats going to happen with this? Are we talking GPU+physics processor on the same gfx board or..?

Either way, this is gonna be awesome

Either way it's going to be expensive!

Mpegger · Feb 6, 2008

Oc1Kenube said:
Either way it's going to be expensive!

Especially when the multi-cored gpu cards come out.

>HyperlogiK< · Feb 6, 2008

If it's restricted to Nvidia card owners then it's one more nail in the already pretty hammered coffin of PC gaming.

Rinne · Feb 6, 2008

DrSpanky said:
Nvidia - The Way It's Meant To Be Played... could be the only way its abled to to be played depending how much they invest in development. if games rely on hardware physics you may be left with buy a nvidia gfx card or buy a nvidia physics card if you want to play certain games.

I think that would hurt competition rights in some countries, and thus not be allowed..

hopefully..

or they'll have to share their technology

Hardin · Feb 6, 2008

Well no one is saying that Havok wont work on amd processors, so the same could be true of ageia.

Satsumomo · Feb 6, 2008

With quad core CPUs being common nowadays, isn't it possible to dedicate one core to handling physics?

Nvidia to acquire Ageia

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Similar threads