Ppu

[bass_man1989]

A physics processor, this seems cool.

PC Perspective - AGEIA PhysX Physics Processing Unit Preview

 

[lemon]

they say that it will improve the performance. 'cept the card still has to communicate throught the processor to the graphics card about updated positions. why not just dual-core the gpu's and wipe out the ppu altogether? and the physics are currently done the processor. plus, since the game is the current user program being used, the game's process is upped a priority level or two, thus giving the game more processor time. so, really, its not going to do much, maybe 1 or 2 frames a second, which if you have enough money to buy a ppu, you have already maxed your fps.

 

[bass_man1989]

Yeah, upon reading futher I don't think this will go over, sorry for the inconvience.

 

[elluko]

I'll stick with my no-expensive Havok physics system, thank you very much.

 

[lemon]

oh no, dont be sorry. all we get in here is basically md's bot's articles.