AGEIA PhysX anyone?

[cardinalbrian]

I got a replacement box from Dell with an AGEIA PhysX card in it.  After upgrading the  "found" VISTA Home Premium to Ultimate I had to reload everything.  When I use the Hat Switch to change views I now get a complete Window repaint that takes 4-5+ seconds.  I'm assuming this is an impact of the PhysX card, because I find it even on a clean install of just vanilla FSX.   Anybody have experience with this device.  Or another explanation for this behavior?

[mjrhealth]

Pretty much a waste of time. FSX does not utilise it and i doubt that there are many games out there that do. Nvidia utilises the GPU to process Physix and the drivers are included in the GPU driver. As for ATI I am  not sure. But as i said FSX does not utlise any physix processing so unless ther is anything utising it i would remove it. Physix was the first but it never took of and the card manufacturers will not pay for what they can do themseves.

[cardinalbrian]

mjrhealth,

Thanks many.  Removal of the card returned FSX to it's expected behavior.  Now I'll finish the updates and installation.

I have the ATI  HD3870X2 linked via Crossfire for video support, and I guess the NVidia doohickey just didn't fit..

Your response was right on target, thanks again.

[HarvesteR]

If I'm not mistaken, Nvidia bought out AGEIA a while back and integrated their PhysX engine to their GPUs... from the 8 series up, every Nvidia GPU should support PhysX now  ;)

only thing is that FSX makes no use of it, nor do most games so far...
but some games, like Ghost Recon, are using PhysX for some effects

Cheers

[cardinalbrian]

Well, all is not as well as I wished.  I did remove the PhysX card, but that didn't cure all the problems.   Instead of the hat switch acting as hat switches are supposed to act in my universe, mine has 2 , both undesirable, modes of behaviour in FSX.  It works right in CSF, which I just installed.  Mode 1 moves the view around under control of the switch as if you pan (move continuously without jumping) with your eyes.  Might be neat, but I don't like it.  Mode 2 seems to refresh the whole window to the view the hat switch selects - taking up to 6 or 7 seconds in the process!  For the time being I'm just practicing approaches, so it doesn't bother too much since I'm only looking at the panel.  But when I just want go pretend my Cardinal is on the West Coast or Tibet, I'd like the switch to just switch views to the selected sector and back off the ding-a-linging..  Any suggestions?