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- GeForce 8 users to get software PhysX support ... someday
- nVIDIA is moving fast with their acquisition of AGEIA - during the fourth-quarter financial results conference call, the graphics giant announced that the company was planning to bring software PhysX support to the GeForce 8 GPU. nVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed that the plan was to take...
- Tags: Software, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Ageia, Graphics, GPU, PhysX, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- nVIDIA to acquire AGEIA Technologies
- GPU makers nVIDIA have announced that it intends to purchase physics middleware company AGEIA Technologies for an undisclosed sum. So, Havok went to Intel, and now AGEIA goes to nVIDIA. The word was last year that AMD was interested in grabbing AGEIA for some $150 million, but...
- Tags: Physics, NVidia Corp., Ageia, Games, Chipsets, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Two gaming dead ends of 2007
- Two gaming dead ends of 2007Try playing Crysis on a machine with directX 10 ....... and one without. It isn't always about frame rates. Sometimes it is about the experience.what about using PhysX in production?I wonder if the PhysX card can market toward those who do video rendering...
- Tags: Games, Intel Corp., Ageia, PhysX, game, Matrox
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Stoked Rider: Alaska Alien Human Demo (exe)
- Stoked Rider: Alaska Alien is a deadly serious you-against-the-mountain scenario, where the goal of the game is to basically get down in one piece from high peaks based in a huge procedurally created mountain-area. AGEIA PhysX brings huge new possibilities to the game with amazing fluid particle effects. This game-title...
- Tags: Hill, Ageia, BONGFISH, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-01-10
- Physics processing - AGEIA PhysX and ATI's Triple Play
- First, we had one graphics card. Then we had two. Now, ATI are hoping that those looking for a little extra performance will buy three.Triple Play is The problem is clear - convincing game developers that physics processing is worth the bother. ATI's answer to physics processing. ...
- Tags: Ageia, ATI Technologies Inc., game
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- Physics processing - AGEIA PhysX and ATI's Triple Play
- Physics processing - AGEIA PhysX and ATI's Triple PlayHow highHow high do you think gamer's will be willing to go? With PS3 going for $600 (although that's a bargin for what they seem to be including), I believe they will have trouble attracting people beyond the hardcore gamers and...
- Tags: Games, Game players, Ageia, AGEIA PhysX, console, game, ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-06-09
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- Fight card: AMD Radeon 4800 vs. Nvidia GTX 200
- The high-end graphics card market isn't the straightforward, mano-a-mano battle it used to be. Graphics cards with dual GPUs, systems with multiple cards in CrossFire or SLI implementations, and most recently hybrid graphics have all muddied the picture. Meanwhile, Intel has improved its integrated graphics and has long-term plans in...
- Tags: Card, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, GPU, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- PhysX coming to GeForce 8/9 owners soon
- When nVIDIA bought Ageia Technologies in February of this year it was clear what nVIDIA had in mind - to make the PhysX API independent of separate hardware and instead offload the work to the GPU. Well, only two months on and nVIDIA have announced that the conversion of the...
- Tags: Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., Graphics, Intel Corp., GPU, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- GeForce 8 users to get software PhysX support ... someday
- GeForce 8 users to get software PhysX support ... somedayAny more than they already do?I know at least one gamer who replaces his entire PC on more than once a year on average, having bought $1000 worth of graphics cards 3 times in the last 2 years. Some gamers are...
- Tags: Games, Tools & Techniques, PhysX, GeForce 8 user, GeForce 8, Nvidia GeForce, software
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Word Finder (exe)
- In Word Finder you play as a little monster where the objective is to find pictures corresponding to words you are given. The game utilizes DirectX to deliver fresh colorful 3D graphics not found in most educational games and is fine tuned to have simple yet responsive controls anyone can...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Instruction, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-02-14
- nVIDIA+to+acquire+AGEIA+Technologies
- nVIDIA+to+acquire+AGEIA+TechnologiesI don't think you quite get itGood article about "what happens to AMD, NVidia, etc if this acquisition..." but, seriously, questioning the direction of physics and dependency on Microsoft to make it happen? This tells me you don;t quite the significance of physics in gaming.I'll boil...
- Tags: Games, Video cards, DirectX 10, DirectX, game, card, video card, NVidia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Two gaming dead ends of 2007
- That never ending quest for better and better frame rates means that gamers will spend their money on pretty much anything that will allow them to get the edge on their opponents and frag them just that little bit faster. However, not everything leads to better performance. 2007 saw two...
- Tags: Game, History, DirectX, PhysX, Games, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- My Alienware Experience - Amazing gaming system!
- My Alienware Experience - Amazing gaming system!Battery LifeExcellent, I look forward to that review. Would help me make up my mind where to buy a laptop from!That will be interesting.Check out how long the battery will last under full game power. I will give it 120 minutes tops.Price? Weight? Battery...
- Tags: Games, Engineering, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Memory, game, Alienware, battery, laptop computer, gaming system
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
- Microsoft Robotics Studio (exe)
- The goal of the Microsoft Robotics Studio is to supply a software platform for the robotics community that can be used across a wide variety of hardware, applicable to a wide audience of users, and development of a wide variety of applications. The Microsoft Robotics Studio delivers areas of software...
- Tags: Robotics, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Robotics Studio, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2007-08-17
- Open Fire (dmg)
- What is there for a lone man in a tower, armed only with his trusty rocket launcher, unlimited ammo, and cunning wits, to do with an endless stream of lemming-like tanks and army jeeps? Blow them up for fun, perhaps? Featuring seamless, integrated real-time global online scoring, a holy-crap-that-was-a-big-explosion-o-meter, and...
- Tags: Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-01-09
- Unity (dmg)
- Unity delivers a stable and scalable platform for creating captivating content. Content that is efficient to create, and that works on low as well as high-end hardware. Unity is the only Mac-based high-end game development tool sporting a stylish pro-app GUI, no-friction workflow and top-of-the-line technical features such as extensible...
- Tags: Unity, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-12-28
- Justice Dept. subpoenas AMD, Nvidia
- Justice Dept. subpoenas AMD, NvidiaHuh again?"the price of video cards has been going insane in the last few years"They're cheaper then ever. Sure the "flagship" products are $500 but the low-end cards are $100 for something which was unthinkable a few years ago.PS: $500 for a card with 768Mb of...
- Tags: Video cards, Intel Corp., video card, graphics, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., NVidia Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-01
- Wedding bells for Intel and Nvidia?
- Wedding bells for Intel and Nvidia?Or...... onboard video and audio were of insufficient quality, and purchasing technology can be cheaper than developing it.If the consumer can obtain acceptable video without purchasing a card, that's a sales point for motherboards and chips. I think Occam's razor applies here. If...
- Tags: Chipsets, Corporate communications, Semiconductors, Processors, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., NVidia Corp., video
- Discussion threads 2006-10-05
- HP to acquire Voodoo PC
- HP to acquire Voodoo PCAnd Patti Dunn can be the medicine woman to run it.]:)The purchase has nothing to do with "influencing" less tech savvy peopleLess tech savvy people don't buy from Alienware and company nor are they influenced by their expensive gaming products.The HP purchase is for increased profits/margins,...
- Tags: Desktops, Games, Voodoo, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC
- Discussion threads 2006-09-28
- Maingear X-Cube
- We don't usually get to make sweeping declarative statements, but Maingear has given us the opportunity. Its small-form-factor SFF X-Cube gaming desktop is the most advanced PC in its class. No other vendor of a pseudo-portable gaming computer offers a more up-to-date system. This $3,300 PC is by no means...
- Tags: Chipsets, Desktops, Semiconductors, Processors, Network technology, Maingear X-Cube, Maingear, PC
- Product reviews 2006-06-20
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