If you run those tests, you will see that x87 is roughly the same speed as SSE but SSE2 is much faster and does the calculations in 2/3 the time it takes x87 test. Now please take a look before you run off writing some angry reply. The fast the code can be executed/cycled through the better the result. But saying physx might perform better using x87 compiling than SSE2 or 3 just shows how little you know my friend. Remember the base platform for physx came out in like 2003ish if i recall which sorta explains the x87 compile.

what i think is they just didnt optimize it either. Personally i dont think Nvidia has sabotaged the physx code. You also seem to have a hard time accepting that you may as well as the rest of us be wrong. you seem very keen to defend your opinion, which is fine by itself, that you rushed to reply. The drivers are going to get hacked anyway so why bother? why not make it easy, gain som loyalti and some extra customers?Ĭlick to expand.Apparently you didnt read the 2 post i linked. What they gain from this is simple.sure some will switch to nvidia but even more is going to ignore them or go on a hate bashing trip and thats a lost customer right there. Heck i dont mind if they keep the GPU acceleration locked to their GPUs but atleast dont do that scumbag move and lockout GPU acceleration whenever an AMD card is in the machine.thats SO cheap. Its only a marketing tool and that isnt cool.

It even struggles at times on their own top end GPUs. Nvidia isnt helping itself with this nonsense, if they want PhysX to succed they should open it up and optimize it much more than what it is now. We got so many cores and threads not being used on our CPUs so why not take advantage of it? Sure the effects it can produce are cool and awwsome at times, but the havok engine can do the same, so can bullet. There is no point in defending a closed piece of tech thats not even running that great. Click to expand.Okay im with Humbug and whoever else questions the poor performance for physx on a CPU.

Can i run metro 2033