i was there are on that argument...boy was that a heated one!

and ati can run physx now (windows 7 only from my understanding), with a hack and a decent nvidia card. a few people have already done it..including me...but i was using a gt240 and only got 155 cpu points...got like 165 with a 9800 gt...i think i could break in to the 200's with a gtx280..(speculation of course)

nateman_doo

You know what bugs me about the HW bot thing, why do they disable the PPU.  I specifically bought Nvidia cards because they HAD phys-x.  Let ATI come up with something for their cards.  If that give Nvidia an advantage, then wouldn't that make ATI try to develop something to combat it?

The reason is simple. Futuremark does not support PhysX via the GPU. All Test and PhysX is run CPU. That's why hwbot doesn't recognize it. Now go back and do all those Vatage runs right!

boooo!  :P  maybe I will be fully functional tonight... pending a trip to the hardware store, and they have hose clamps and insulation.

not entirely true....
orb use to take physx enabled, but since all the ati people couldn't run it..it was a big ole mess with the scoring. so orb elected to drop physx in the interest of justice(so to speak) not sure if that influenced how hwbot did their scoring for vantage...remember..3dmark06 uses some form of physics as well...not sure why it works better for ati here than with vantage...
anyone with any input would be welcomed.

nateman_doo

boooo!  :P  maybe I will be fully functional tonight... pending a trip to the hardware store, and they have hose clamps and insulation.

Ah suck it up and deal with it. I'm waiting for you and awalleyeguy to catch up.
 
Oh, and SniperOZ is going to be real upset soon. Looks like a certain someone will be taking his #1 Cup away from him in the x58 Classified Reference Clock catagory.

johnksss

not entirely true....
orb use to take physx enabled, but since all the ati people couldn't run it..it was a big ole mess with the scoring. so orb elected to drop physx in the interest of justice(so to speak) not sure if that influenced how hwbot did their scoring for vantage...remember..3dmark06 uses some form of physics as well...not sure why it works better for ati here than with vantage...
anyone with any input would be welcomed.

When Vantage first released, FutureMaek implemented the use of PhysX via the CPU with the use of Ageia drivers. Its original intent was to use the CPU as PhysX because majority of ppl did not have an Ageia PhysX card but the was some level of PhysX withing the programming. At that time this was supported by both ATI and NVIDIA. But later on NVIDIA changed the playing field for Vantage by buying up Ageia then implementing PhysX via the GPU as well as the CPU. This in turn skewed the results of which FutureMark still does not support. It will accect the runs for the data base but legitimate runs are still recognized as those using the default CPU PhysX.

all was cool when it was on a addon card, but once it went gpu bound...it became a problem.

but now

with windows 7 and a small hack...ati can now run physx..via...nvidia card addon..(rotflmao) and they dont seem to do half bad either..

check out my addon...haha

johnksss

all was cool when it was on a addon card, but once it went gpu bound...it became a problem.

but now

with windows 7 and a small hack...ati can now run physx..via...nvidia card addon..(rotflmao) and they dont seem to do half bad either..

check out my addon...haha

Still not recognized by hwot tho. So rather than get your possible points by skewing them with a cheat, get them legit.

ShockTheMonky

johnksss

all was cool when it was on a addon card, but once it went gpu bound...it became a problem.

but now

with windows 7 and a small hack...ati can now run physx..via...nvidia card addon..(rotflmao) and they dont seem to do half bad either..

check out my addon...haha

Still not recognized by hwot tho. So rather than get your possible points by skewing them with a cheat, get them legit.

get them with a cheat? what are you taking about?
all my submits are without physx and legit. not sure where your going with that.

i was just being funny

johnksss

ShockTheMonky

johnksss

all was cool when it was on a addon card, but once it went gpu bound...it became a problem.

but now

with windows 7 and a small hack...ati can now run physx..via...nvidia card addon..(rotflmao) and they dont seem to do half bad either..

check out my addon...haha

Still not recognized by hwot tho. So rather than get your possible points by skewing them with a cheat, get them legit.

get them with a cheat? what are you taking about?
all my submits are without physx and legit. not sure where your going with that.

i was just being funny

And what makes you think I wasn't?