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Well it is cool to see more support for the Nvidia's physics drivers but I won't get to reap the benefits as I'm swapping out my 8800 SLI setup for a 4870 x2 as soon as they are available. It will be interesting to see how physics support in this fashion will segment the market. Until ATI can utilize the same API w/ their cards (no reason they couldn't aside from having to license tech from their competitor) I don't think we'll see widespread or comprehensive use of PhysX. Especially now that ATI is back on top of the price/performance ratio and the GPU of choice for most gamers, I think Nvidia's plans for a EAX style monopoly on physics have been dashed.
...bysmittyPosted at 1:20PM on Aug 11th 2008 by bysmitty