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Geek Culture / FINALLY!!! NVIDIA users, please read.

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Mahoney
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GPU PhysX support for 8, 9, and GTX cards, along with tech demos.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcewithin/us/download2.asp

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yes finally finally woot now i dont have to waste my money on a physx card yes...im going to install the drivers on my 8600gt.


Come see the WIP!

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SWEET! It's about time.

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how would one go about checking their card for compatibility? I was looking a week or two ago with no avail.


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If it's CUDA enabled (8, 9, or GTX series), and has at least 256 MB of memory, it's compatible.

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Wow! Thought this day would never come. Too bad my GeForce 8800GT hates my motherboard and refuses to work...

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Robert F
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I will take it off your hands for 50 bucks
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Raven
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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 07:51
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They've had that for the last several driver releases; hardly "new"

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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 08:37
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No, they haven't. Only for the GTX cards.

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Robert F
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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 09:23
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I try to download it, but the download thing keeps freezing!
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Mahoney
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XP 32-bit http://nzone.download.nvidia.com/nodlm/177.83_geforce_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe

XP 64-bit http://nzone.download.nvidia.com/nodlm/177.83_geforce_winxp_64bit_english_whql.exe

Vista 32-bit http://nzone.download.nvidia.com/nodlm/177.83_geforce_winvista_32bit_english_whql.exe

Vista 64-bit http://nzone.download.nvidia.com/nodlm/177.83_geforce_winvista_64bit_english_whql.exe

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Robert F
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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 09:33
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Thank you!
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Mahoney
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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 09:34
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No problem. I recommend loading the Fluid demo, though. It's awesome. And the Kulu demo if you have a 9600 GT or better.

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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 10:45
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Quote: "They've had that for the last several driver releases; hardly "new""


http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/604536/nvidia-to-release-gpu-physx-pack-next-week.html
Quote: "on 5 August a PhysX pack goes out, which enables PhysX for all GeForce 8 and 9 series GPUs, and also the GTX 280 and 260."



Here's a link for those who are unsure if their code supports CUDA or not:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html



So uhh, whats the chance of seeing a CUDA extension for Java?


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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 11:03
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Does this mean that we can use Hardware Physx with our Nvidia GPU's now? Or do we still need there PPU?


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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 18:17
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*utilizes his 9600*

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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 19:12
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Physx on GPU was already available at the end of June. The only difference is that whereas previously you had to download the Physx system software seperately, now it is integrated within the drivers.

The fluid demo looks really nice and performs quite smoothly on my system. A pity the most interesting features (changing colour/rendering and fluids moving objects) are not currently available in Dark Physics.

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Mahoney
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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 19:13
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It was only available (officially) for the new GTX cards.

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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 19:15
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Does this apply to laptop versions of the cards? It seems nVidia like out-sourcing their updates to laptop developers.

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Yes. As long as it's 8 or 9 series, and has 256 MB of memory.

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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 19:58 Edited at: 13th Aug 2008 19:58
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9500M GS with 512mb VRAM. Though I will double check first - I was going to download the 169 drivers to only find that Acer provided my supported update.

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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 20:01
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Yep. That will work.

But, I don't think that's the right driver version. The one that added support for PhysX was 177.83.

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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 20:47
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The one I got (a week ago) and updated to from the Acer website is 175.61 - the reason I had to get it from Acer's website is that the GeforceM 9x have no driver support on nVidia's site, so I did used nVidia's driver tool and it told me that for the latest GeForceM 9x drivers, Acer.com was the place to go (as they manufactored my laptop) and this was a week ago - I'll check if Acer have updated their ftp server with the laptop update. Though I don't understand why nVidia redirected me to Acer, but I'm going to guess and say Acer and GeforceM 9x series cards have some system specific stuff to put into their drivers.

So from what I understand these updates are specific to the main nVidia desktop range, unless they decided to change that in the last week or so.

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Posted: 13th Aug 2008 21:43
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They will eventually support mobile, I believe. I'm really not sure.

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Posted: 14th Aug 2008 08:15
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I just installed the new drivers and now my PC won't boot. Gets half way through the XP loading screen then reboots.


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Posted: 14th Aug 2008 08:19
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Did you uninstall the old drivers first?

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Posted: 14th Aug 2008 19:39
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It says that the "Quadro FX 570" is compatable... but I have the "Quadro FX 570M"... I know it just means it's the mobile version, but, I question it because the FX570 isn't listed under "Quadro Mobile Products"

will it work for me still?


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Posted: 14th Aug 2008 19:47
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The newest beta drivers that support PhysX are 177.83 (labeled as 177.79 on the beta section, for some reason). They only support 8, 9, and GTX series cards. You can find the betas here.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

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Aye, the installer failed for me. But it didn't break the compy, the installation went like normal, but at the end it said the driver could not be updated.

I assume all I have to do is uninstall the old driver, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.


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Posted: 15th Aug 2008 01:15
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What OS/card?

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Me? Vista 32bit w/ 8800gt. But I recall installing a custom driver in an attempt to get PhysX working on my card, so I'm sure that's where I had the problem.


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That would do it. Just uninstall the old as planned. Also, you may have to get a driver cleaner to fix it. I can't remember where the link is to a good one for NVIDIA drivers.

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I've been using Nvidia for a long time and never had to uninstall drivers before.

XP-32/8600gts

I rolled back and installed different drivers. When you go to their website and it auto detects which drivers to download you don't get the same version that Mahoney posted. I think the newest it gave me was 175.19


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Uninstalling the previous driver is usually good practice, but he needs to because of the custom drivers with PhysX that he installed.

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