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Cellfactor released.
The_Spaniard
It's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
It's never lupinesIrvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
http://www.cellfactorrevolution.com/_the_revolution_starts_may_8_/index.html
The free game meant to show off the Ageia PhysX card is available now for download. The card is not needed to play, but you're pretty fucked for performance if you don't have one.
Get downloading, and for the love of god you tech gurus please post any performance tweaks you can find or figure out for us non PPU owners..
http://www.cellfactorrevolution.com/_the_revolution_starts_may_8_/media/images/screenshots/CFR_2_2.jpg
http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/724/724870/cellfactor-revolution-20060810032116462.jpg
http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/724/724870/cellfactor-revolution-20060810032118931.jpg
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=19209&type=mov&pl=game
The free game meant to show off the Ageia PhysX card is available now for download. The card is not needed to play, but you're pretty fucked for performance if you don't have one.
Get downloading, and for the love of god you tech gurus please post any performance tweaks you can find or figure out for us non PPU owners..
http://www.cellfactorrevolution.com/_the_revolution_starts_may_8_/media/images/screenshots/CFR_2_2.jpg
http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/724/724870/cellfactor-revolution-20060810032116462.jpg
http://pcmedia.ign.com/pc/image/article/724/724870/cellfactor-revolution-20060810032118931.jpg
http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=19209&type=mov&pl=game
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Fuck it, then.
it's free
what are you complaining about
'cause it's fucking pretty.
Yeah I know, I was just about to, :arrow:
Its connection to physics cards, which I loathe.
Rabble rabble rabble rabble
Though yeah, free is nice.
What do you have against physics cards?
Ridiculous consumer exploitation of a piece of hardware you will never realistically need.
But would love to have.
I dunno.
Cellfactor is the only game that needs it.
I have never been playing another game and thought 'man, if only I had some hardware solution to manage the physics'
Seriously, dual core CPUs are like under £100 now, they can manage nearly every physics solution in current games fine.
Until a tweak was figured out -- the game had a config file, and if you told it to change a certain value, the game "thought" you had a PhysX card.
All of a sudden a lot of people WITHOUT PhysX cards were running the game great.. As in, on par with benchmarks running the PhysX card.
The demo was immediatley removed from the site once the tweak got out.
In short, I won't be bothering with this.
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also: Half-Life 2 already proved the physx card retarded years ago.
It's absolutely true:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/07/19/is_ageias_physx_failing/page3.html
They talk about it here, at tomshardware, and a link to the tweak is here:
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/play-CellFactor-demo-PhysX-PPU-ftopict185393.html
Later, Ghost Recon was tested, which was said to benefit from the PhysX card. The benchmarks showed minimal increases in performance, and definitely not an improvement that would require a $300 purchase for the card. Which, laughably, that money could go to RAM or a better CPU or Video card to gain higher performance than is provided by the PhysX card itself.
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I cannot say for sure, but what you can certainly bet on is that Ageia will do their damnedest to prevent tweaking the game in such a way that you can play it without the PhysX card at reasonable framerates. They'll certainly try to bury anything that could result in an easy method to 'trick' the game.
Especially after the 'demo fiasco.'
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Seriously? Wow, and here I was just thinking physics cards were expensive and unnecessary. Nice bit of fraud, there.
HL2 didn't render cloth, but I know Left4Dead is modifying the source engine to handle some cloth and hair movement. I just don't think this will be anything but a gimmick untill Nividia or ATI come out with a physics processor on one of thier GPUs. Or more likely game companies start taking advantage of multicore systems more.
Also I tired to start a skirmish and says I need a physx card to use extreme level physics and no where is there an option to change physics, looks like I'm goin on an .ini tweak fest.
Except they're not going to and never will force people to use the fraud physics cards. This game, which seems to me is little more than a tech demo, is just a sponsor for the card. Why can't people think anymore. Why would game developers suddenly limit their market from millions to the probably four people that actually own the card. PC developers make their games run on a large number of configurations so that they widen their audience. Most people don't have high end systems, so they make their game playable on the average machine, which is what most people do have. There are some games that do support the physics card, but that's all they do - support it instead of requiring it; and that's all that will ever happen.
Yea it seems so,
Ok so real impressions against like 4 bots its a laggy mess but tooling around by myself it was ok.
Being a bishop was pretty cool lotsa awesome psy abilities. If this gets tweaked for better performance without a physx card I could totally see myself playing this at lans with buddies, or even over hamachi.
I don't forsee that happening this time - but it's entirely possible. Dedicated silicon can do wonderful things, and we've been told (and responded to the claim) that physics-based gameplay is the next big thing.
my only problem with it is now in the age of dual and even quad core processors, the physics could be offloaded on to a core.
You could have said the same thing about video cards...
Yeah? No. Sure, back in the day, like one poster just said, they took advantage of the new hardware and results were stellar. Let's go forward in time to the AGEIA physics card, and they take advantage of the hardware and results were... oh look at that, you hardly gain anything. Even that demo that was released to show off the physics card ran marvelously on current hardware. They purposely made it, and now this "game," run bad to try and get people to buy their hardware. The dual and now quadcore CPUs are more than capable of dealing with physics, and will continue to become more powerful that a physics card will just take up extra space and money.
The idea behind these cards is to allow something like this Star Wars Unleashed to happen with nearly every object in game.
Yep.
But it wasn't just that the developers took advantage of the hardware, it was that the hardware stopped sucking. Seriously, the very first 3d accelerators? Utter shit.
When 3d accelerators came around there was NO alternative.
With physics cards you could easily get a multi core CPU and let one core do all the work. It would probably work better because you dont have a complete extra card running stuff, its all onboard the CPU.
Edit: nvm had to disable the haali media splitter to get it to run.