Grabbed it to save, just in case I leave my GTX 285 in with my HD5850. If Windows 7 does split video load well, it's possible I could fold on the 285 without a performance loss on the 5850.
BAD NVIDIA. I hate NVIDIA. We hate u NVIDIA.
WDDM 1.1 is cool. It support multi-vendor/multi-GPU configurations, but vista WDDM is a crap. If NVIDIA block this patch we(poor existing customers of nvidia) have to develop a new patch or put their GPU and PhysX into a dust bin and use ati GPU only . BAD NVIDIA BAD NVIDIA BAD NVIDIA.
Another case of AMD offering its users the "Power of Community", ie. the power of hacks and workarounds in lieu of proper vendor support. At some point AMD fans and customers will realize all their misdirected complaints and finger pointing directed at the competition changes nothing. They're still getting inferior support from AMD and that won't change until they properly focus their angst and anger at the only party that can and should do anything about supporting their hardware....AMD.
Oh and here's another lead for you Thrax, the Community has provided more workarounds and hacks to get PhysX "to work" without GPU acceleration. It only requires downloading DRM circumvention hacks from torrent sites to accomplish such a "seamless" workaround...
So you're in favor of this kind of workaround being passed off as support for AMD hardware? I'd say that would characterize rabid fanboyism more than anything I've suggested.
I don't think anyone but the foolish characterizes it as support. More than anything, most see the revocation of two PhysX techniques that NVIDIA previously blessed as disingenuous.
I don't think anyone but the foolish characterizes it as support. More than anything, most see the revocation of two PhysX techniques that NVIDIA previously blessed as disingenuous.
But Nvidia didn't bless either previously, AMD as a primary graphics card with a secondary Nvidia card for PhysX was never officially supported by Nvidia, in fact, it was impossible in Vista, and only possible on a legacy OS in XP and a RC non-GA release of Win7. Not totally sure what the second technique is you're referring to.
In any case, I wasn't referencing an explicit pledge of support for these workarounds, I was referring to the responses in this thread and others along with Ardichoke's reply in this thread that show AMD supporters would rather expend energy finding fault in my posts or blaming Nvidia rather than directing that angst toward the only party that is truly culpable and capable of affecting change for their own hardware, AMD.
Thrax
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WDDM 1.1 is cool. It support multi-vendor/multi-GPU configurations, but vista WDDM is a crap. If NVIDIA block this patch we(poor existing customers of nvidia) have to develop a new patch or put their GPU and PhysX into a dust bin and use ati GPU only . BAD NVIDIA BAD NVIDIA BAD NVIDIA.
Oh and here's another lead for you Thrax, the Community has provided more workarounds and hacks to get PhysX "to work" without GPU acceleration. It only requires downloading DRM circumvention hacks from torrent sites to accomplish such a "seamless" workaround...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUOr4cFWY-s#t=1m10s
And no, all that trash glued to Batman isn't normal, nor are the horrible frame rate drops.
In any case, I wasn't referencing an explicit pledge of support for these workarounds, I was referring to the responses in this thread and others along with Ardichoke's reply in this thread that show AMD supporters would rather expend energy finding fault in my posts or blaming Nvidia rather than directing that angst toward the only party that is truly culpable and capable of affecting change for their own hardware, AMD.