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Post Date: 2010-03-17
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    Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 5:55pm
Just saw an article in MaxPC, older issue, that nvidia crippled Cry support for physX on non-ati GPU's and even the older physX card. how nice..
What caught my I is it stated there is a patch to allow ATI to use physX and they successfully ran a 5870 using Nvidia drivers 1.9.....
 
 DO people use the Nvidia drivers for ATI products?
 
Just confused and looking to gain a little knowledge..Big%20smile
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Posts: 5084 		  Quote justin.kerr Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 17 Mar 2010 at 6:26pm

I believe that is in reference to using a Nvidia card for Physx, with a ATI card for Graphics.  So if you spent your hard earned money on a Nvidia GTX 260, to use as a physx card in your system, Nvidia will disable it... How nice. lol So there is a patch to allow it to work..but you have to use the ATI drivers for the ATI card(s)

For my own personal use last year I bout 3 Nvidia GTX 260's, 3 GTX 275's 1 GTX 285 and 2 GTX 295's. After all the lies and BS they have been pulling lately, I don't know when I am going to buy another card from them...
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Posts: 162 		  Quote jimbo Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 18 Mar 2010 at 5:37pm
WOW I guess when you become, or think your king of the Hill (Nvidia) they slack off and figure customers will take whatever they dish out.
I know its hard for a business to justify that they do not want to support someone elses hardware/software, but instead of warning that they will not support it, they just crippled it. Besides, how many people would think to use Nvidai drivers on an ATI product?
Hopefully, some day in the future they will get their heads back on track.
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