Picking out a video card
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Dark Ether,
Posted on: 2010-02-25 15:48 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Again, the game comes with the the original PhysX driver and library and is coded to use it. If you don't have a PhysX card, it is emulated in software. Exploding mail boxes, shell casings, swinging signs, blown leaves due to flybys, etc. is available to everyone regardless if you have a PhysX card or an nVidia card that could run PhysX.
As long as the "AEGIA(TM) PhysX(TM) support" is grayed out, you are running the CPU PhysX emulation and not on hardware. The game's included driver does not recognize nVidia's GPU PhysX as a valid PhysX card. The game's included driver was an early 1.0 beta of PhysX. Aegia, before they were bought by nVidia redid their drivers and they were no longer compatible with this game. If we loaded their new drivers it this game would still use the ones that came with it back when CoV first came out. The same ones that are still in the game's folder. The next slider, "Particle Physics Quality" adjusts how much PhysX effects we see.
Now if the game had supported the last generation of Aegia's drivers then when nVidia bought and incorporated a CUDA version in their video drivers then the game would be able to use them. But that didn't happen. This game was too early of an adopter of PhysX and like the first guy on the block who bought an HDTV, we find ourselves with a piece of technology that isn't quite the standard and is lacking in compatibility.
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I was tempted to chime in but Father Xmas took the words right out of my mouth. I've actually had a fight about this very same topic with someone in-game claiming the nVidia PhysX drivers are needed for it to work, etc. Would not listen to reason when I explained that CoH uses it's own (old) PhysX software.
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As FatherXmas has pointed out, this is not the PhysX we're referring to. That is emulated. It's not the same thing. That being said, in the future it's probably best you explain you're emulating PhysX and not actually running PhysX so as not to confuse people.
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Originally Posted by Human_Being
No, the mail boxes exploding and leaves falling and trash flying and such are what the PhysX gives you in this game. It's a direct effect of having the PhysX Engine installed. You can go to Add or Remove Programs (or whatever it is in Win 7) and it will be listed as "NVIDIA PhysX"; mine is shown as version 9.09.0814, consisting of all the engines up to 2.8.1 and is 121 mb in size.
You've got PhysX in CoX, congratulations. If you don't believe it, delete the listing for "NVIDIA PhysX", reboot, confirm it's gone, and go into the game. |
We'll see....
Did I miss the answer to the O/P's question? It is very likely I may have saved enough for a new computer myself (after 2 1/2 years, damn tanking economy) and was wondering the same things.
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Originally Posted by Psyte
My current choices:
Radeon 5770 for ~$160 Radeon 5830 but waiting for it to hit $200-220 (reviewers are blasting it over the $240 price) Radeon 5850 for ~$300 Right now I'm trying to figure out where the "sweet spot" is - not spending too much, but not spending too little, either. And right now, I'm not quite sure which is the best value. |
So, does it appear worth the extra money to go to a 5850 or, for the same price, cross-fire 5770's, or just save the $100 or so and get a 5830 instead?
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Well, "the best value for the money" is still up in the air and likely will be until Ultra Mode debuts (although it seems like you should be good with most modern cards). I can't recommend considering SL/Crossfire until the issue that UM has with that is resolved (Posi said its currently not working). I personally don't want to overspend, I know that much |
Originally Posted by Peterbilt
Did I miss the answer to the O/P's question? It is very likely I may have saved enough for a new computer myself (after 2 1/2 years, damn tanking economy) and was wondering the same things.
So, does it appear worth the extra money to go to a 5850 or, for the same price, cross-fire 5770's, or just save the $100 or so and get a 5830 instead? |
The only objective answer I can give is that the 5830 is *not* the best value for the money at current prices ($240). Its not enough of an improvement over the 5770 to justify the higher price, but doesn't perform well enough compared to the 5850 to justify its price either. Critically speaking (ie, every review I've read thus far) says it'll be a great card at the $200 price point, but I don't know how long it'll take to drop by $40.
You've got PhysX in CoX, congratulations. If you don't believe it, delete the listing for "NVIDIA PhysX", reboot, confirm it's gone, and go into the game.