New Ageia interview and pole

[nickanderson]

It just dawned on me while reading the Ageia interview something that depressed me about it a little. I guess I should have realized this before . I was very pumped about the Ageia Physx card coming out, but if the game that you want to see the benefit from has to be coded with the SDK from Ageia. So if someone chooses havok, or an in house physics engine, that 300 dollar card is of no use. Unlike a graphics accellerator where it is used in every game. There will always be competition, so unless every game maker starts using Ageia's SDK, that expensive card may not get much use! What do you think?

 

[TheBluePill]

I'll Bite if it hits the $50 price point OR is bundled with/Integrated with "the next big video card".

 

[Jason711]

well, you could say thats the problem with physics.

video cards have two api's ... d3d and ogl. how many apis are there for physics? hopefully this card will help standardize things the way the 3d accels did.

 

[nickanderson]

I hope so too, I just fear that it wont fully catch on becouse it does not support other physics engines, just the in house sdk.

 

[sc00ter]

To me this is just another money pit. Computers cost enough as it is, so I think I'll suffer with Havok.

 

[reddhaus]

I want one but it all depends on price and games that will support it.

I would love to see this thing take off.

I think it would be interesting to see the industry adopt standards for physics the same way they have with graphics.

Then we could have a couple big names fighting for the physics crown in the same way ATI and Nvidia are going at it for graphic.

 

[reddhaus]

To me this is just another money pit. Computers cost enough as it is, so I think I'll suffer with Havok.

I have heard this type of comment before.

Just think where we would be if they decided not to make "graphics cards" because it would make computer systems cost to much.