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by Razengan 3658 days ago
Whatever happened to dedicated physics processors? Can't we have a separate physical unit doing all those calculations in realtime?
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ss248 3658 days ago
>Whatever happened to dedicated physics processors?

Nvidia bought PhysX and stopped production of dedicated PPU. PhysX is just software now. And because it's proprietary (no AMD cards support/CPU implementation is slow) we don't really see games build around it.

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goldenkey 3658 days ago
GPUs or CPUs can be designated as PhysX devices within the NVIDIA drivers. Im not sure if that rules out using AMD devices but probably.
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