NVIDIA PhysX Drivers and Software mayhem

And when I say mayhem .. it's the good kind. NVIDIA just released their PhysX packs and compatible drivers. Let's walk through some of the stuff. In case you missed it, pelase read our article on these packs right here.

GeForce ForceWare 177.83 with included PhysX driver:

This driver supports NVIDIA GeForce 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series desktop GPUs, including the newly released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, and 9500 GT GPUs. The driver adds support for NVIDIA PhysX™ acceleration on all GeForce 8-series, 9-series and 200-series GPUs with a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory. NVIDIA PhysX System Software v8.08.01 is automatically installed with this driver package.

Download THE FOLLOWING AT THE LINK BELOW:

http://www.guru3d.com/news/nvidia-physx-drivers-and-software-mayhem/ (http://www.guru3d.com/news/nvidia-physx-dr...oftware-mayhem/)



 GeForce ForceWare 177.83 XP (32-bit)
 GeForce ForceWare 177.83 XP (64-bit)
 GeForce ForceWare 177.83 Vista (64-bit)
 GeForce ForceWare 177.83 Vista (32-bit)

Furthermore, the packs as described in our artcile can be download here.

 NVIDIA Fluids technology Demo
 PhysX FluidMark v1.0.0
 NVIDIA Metal Knight Zero PhysX Benchmark
 NVIDIA Nurien Technology Demo
 The Great Kulu NVIDIA Technology Demo

NVIDIA has setup a PhysX access page which you can find right here with some more software downloads as well. And to add to that, we have all kinds of threads open on the drivers and PhysX packs ion our forums, check our NVIDIA driver forums here.

Enjoy ;)

Originally posted by Slicer Does this mean that orders currently being developed will come with these driver updates automatically installed?

Good question.

Awesome, downloaded it. Now I need to wait until more games are supported since the ones I have don't use it.

Oh, did not pay much attention to the packs. Some are game demos to test out the physX, awesome!


Edited by Rolet - 12 Aug 2008 at 3:56pm

Here is a good video showing the difference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy36sQKoS7c&feature=related

Yeah, the Physic makes the explosions and stuff more spread out as it would happen irl. Having it won't harm anything, just if you have a game that supports it you can turn it on for those extra effects.