ANy reason to keep my PPU?

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Hi there,

Just curious, is there any reason for me to keep my PPU in my computer? I have not used it since last year. Was just curious since I finally decided to pick up batman over the weekend. Will the Ageia PPU even work with batman or should I just use my 2 Nvidia cards?

Thx for the help!!!
 
alg7_munif said:
You can use your PPU with Batman but it requires some effort, I've tried it and it really works:
http://www.ngohq.com/graphic-cards/...sx-when-ati-card-is-present-66.html#post85180
Click to expand...

Thx for the info on that. I was researching some things earlier online and it just seems as though that the Ageia card is too old and feeble to even work in Batman. I don't remember where it said this info, but I read where Batman with the Ageia card is getting 19fps. Compared to my single 275 GTX which gets 50-75fps.

Looks like the card is going to the boneyard. Not the smartest $150 I ever spent.
 
Yeah, the PPU is wayyy too slow. I have one installed and playing Mirrors Edge with Physx on nets me like 19fps...and this is with Crossfired 4890's! So its definitely a bottleneck...Physx off gets me 60+ solid. Sucks though, I just got my Physx card not even a year ago...only paid $20 for it though!

However...I don't think its not that the PPU is too weak, I think its drivers (nVidia crippling the PPU)...I mean, good Physx games from yesteryear, like Cellfactor had major Physx...much better than Mirrors Edge atleast, and it had solid performance and no slow down with the Ageia PPU. So in conclusion...yes the PPU is dead and has terrible performance...however, I think this is due to bad unoptimized drivers and not so much the hardware.
 
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